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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paraic Brady: The witnesses are very welcome. I am delighted to see the relevant people from the Department and other bodies are here. We must be blunt. Whether we like it or not, there is a need for the competition authority to be called in at some stage, because this will affect the merchants. A word has been bandied about by the Department of agriculture for the past eight or nine months, namely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paraic Brady: We all know the problem with sheep. There is a special dose that does not work any more because we have let it go. I accept that. If I test my flock of sheep by doing a faecal sample and I understand they need something in particular, am I not entitled to go to the co-op and buy that product? Why do I have to go to the vet? Why are we complicating it? If I have done the faecal sample...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paraic Brady: We can still regulate it. I am not saying we cannot do that. What I am saying is that it can be put on the system that is sent off to Europe. There is no problem in doing that when I have taken a faecal sample. The proof is there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paraic Brady: There is no discretion, so we are going to pile more paperwork in on top of the farmer again. That is basically what Ms Garvan is telling me here today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paraic Brady: I can only speak for myself. Most farmers are not afraid to use computers now. Let us be honest and say that either a farmer must call out a vet or drive to him. They are not going to get on a laptop to upload prescriptions. That is not going to work. Let us be straight about 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)

Paraic Brady: Ms Garvan is after contradicting the whole lot. The vet can read my mind on the phone. Is that what she is telling me. He does not need to go to the shed to look because he is a qualified vet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paraic Brady: Ms Garvan is not getting it. Many farmers-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paraic Brady: My point is that many farmers are not IT-savvy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paraic Brady: That is what my point is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paraic Brady: We have a lot of time now to discuss.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paraic Brady: Two of the TDs gave me their time, so we have lots of time to go through this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Paraic Brady: As I said when the Department was here, we have bandied the word “simplification” around. When it comes to prescriptions and dealing with the farming groups, and I speak personally on this, every farmer knows they have overused prescriptions. I can and will accept that. I was probably one of them myself. The reality is most of us are doing faecal samples in our herds. Our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Paraic Brady: I thank the Minister and his officials for being here today. I, too, welcome this forum. We are here for the betterment of the agricultural sector. That must be said. Regarding water quality, I concur with my Senator friend and colleague regarding Irish Water. The blame game seems to always fall on the farmer but we need to look at other sectors that are causing the problem, more so...

Seanad: Driving Test Waiting Times: Statements (20 May 2025)

Paraic Brady: I welcome the Minister of State. I will not rehash everything everybody has said. I agree with it. I will just say one thing to the Minister of State. It is coming to the stage now where young people will not actually wait to get their driving test. Perhaps they have secured employment and the mother and father are no longer fit to bring these people to work at 7.30 or eight o'clock in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Paraic Brady: I, too, congratulate the Cathaoirleach on his elevation. As everybody knows, I am deeply rooted in the agricultural sector and have been so for many years. I am passionate about food protection and protecting our farmers and rural Ireland. One thing I would like to see with this committee, and I have seen it in the past, is that we bring in people who have the skills and knowledge of...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Paraic Brady: I find myself raising something I raised here last week. We had a TB task force last week involving farming organisations, the Department of agriculture and the Minister. At the task force there were nine hours of discussions. No. 2 on the list was to promote badger biodiversity. No. 5 on the list was mandatory disclosure of TB herds categorisation. For anyone who does not understand...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Paraic Brady: A bald head.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 May 2025)

Paraic Brady: I raise once again the issue of the cost of bovine TB to the beef and dairy sectors and to general agriculture throughout Ireland. Bovine TB costs Irish farmers in excess of €150 million, according to a new report. I welcome the emergency TB summit meeting which the Minster, Deputy Martin Heydon, has called for. He intends to meet representatives from all the farming organisations...

Seanad: Forestry Sector: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Paraic Brady: The Minister of State is very welcome to the House. I am delighted to see him as Minister of State in charge of the sector at this moment in time. Coming from a rural area, he understands at first hand the suffering and pain the recent storm caused to rural communities, private landowners and forestry in general. I compliment him on meeting people in County Cork recently and engaging with...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Apr 2025)

Paraic Brady: I want to raise an issue that is very local and very personal not only to myself but to the people of Longford. St. Joseph’s Daycare Centre has just received its HIQA report. It is a damning report of how the service has been run into the ground. Our local councillor Peggy Nolan and other councillors in the area have highlighted this matter at local level. We lost our cathedral...