Results 1-20 of 188 for speaker:William Aird
- Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (12 Jun 2025)
William Aird: I am here today following the disturbing revelations uncovered by the "RTÉ Investigates" programme concerning the residential nursing home in Portlaoise. We must be absolutely clear that what was exposed was not just one failure in one private institution. Rather, it was a systemic failure of oversight, communication and, ultimately, duty. Frail and vulnerable old people were left...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (12 Jun 2025)
William Aird: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will use her discretion to prioritise increased funding for the UBU allocation to the Laois Offaly Education and Training Board, to provide much-needed essential targeted youth services and supports for young people in the region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30677/25]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: I thank the witnesses for coming in. Michael Byrne is the person I deal with and have dealt with for over 40 years. Like other speakers, I want to say this is not a question of bashing farmers or vets. I use a vet very regularly and so does anybody involved in the business I am involved in. On the dry cow tube one, I could do it for years without getting it. Now I get a veterinary...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: Can I say-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: Most of the vets I know do not want them anyway. That is all I can tell the Merchants Alliance Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: You will have to go to your chemist to get that. It is the very same. We look after our animals. What is all this about? Once a week, I have to sit down and put into my medical register everything I do and everything I have bought. There is a record. The corresponding number has to be put into it and it is inspected. What is wrong? There are no complaints about it. Obviously, it is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: How does the VMPMFFR Act 2023 affect the responsibilities and compliance requirements of veterinary professionals and animal health practitioners?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: The clock has gone down. Can you keep an eye on the clock. Is it on there? It is very hard to monitor it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: What are the implications of the Act for farmers and agricultural production in terms of excess medicated feed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: There is no one to answer those questions; that is grand. What safeguards or provisions are in place to protect public health, animal welfare and environmental sustainability under the new regulations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: What supports or transitional measures are provided for smaller stakeholders, for example small-scale farmers or feed producers, to adapt to the new regulatory requirements?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: Will we have this advice on every farm by a veterinary surgeon?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: How will the 30,000 be picked?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: If it is oversubscribed, what happens?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: If it is closed and the farmer is not in it, what happens? Will he ring the vet and the vet will tell him it will cost €200 to do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: What does Mr. Geraghty mean by "with their own vet"? I have a vet who comes to my yard. I know all about the dry-cow tube thing. It is possible to get samples through Tirlán or whoever supplies them and we are able to have selected therapy. I know all that. We are doing all that. We do not need people like Mr. Geraghty coming in here to tell us that. I am concerned about the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: What is the allowance? Mr. Geraghty needs to be quick because my time is going and I have loads of questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: The vet does not have to go to the farm every time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: All right. The IBRs and Bovipast that I have been used to giving my calves will be gone. Who will have to determine that? Do I just ring the vet or do I do a dung sample and send it off and it will come back through Veterinary Ireland to tell me?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
William Aird: I can still get them from the place to where I always got them.