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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there going to be any recognition? My understanding is that there would be advice out there that would say that there are openings under the European regulation for the interpretation to be looked at in a way that would accommodate those people. Has there been any breakthrough on this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Did I hear, or was I hearing wrong, that there is some legal challenge being taken against the Department at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Maybe not. It might be just talk. When Mr. Doyle says that the Department needs to look at this and decide, does he know if this decision is expected shortly? How long is a piece of string? When does it all have to be finalised one way or another?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It might be an advantage at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In the line of medicines, if there is free trade, is Mr. Carroll also saying that people can get their medicines in the North no problem and shoot across the Border?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Most farmers are dealing with co-operatives and some are dealing with chemists and veterinarians. They will have built up a relationship with all of those people down through the years. These are people whom the farmers have dealt with over a number of years and who nearly know what they need each time. They have experience with it. Each is basically a suitably qualified person. Am I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there a worry among co-ops and, indeed, different pharmacists and so on? Is it a problem, or is there a fear, as this is being put together that vets in the Department and elsewhere will basically have a monopoly? We were all assured at the beginning of this process because we brought up at every debate that we felt it was not a good scenario. It puts a farmer in a fairly awkward...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Carroll said there does not seem to be any clear guidance at the moment with regard to fertiliser. Let us say a person does not get a single farm payment or does not have a herd number. He or she might have a horse or an ass or whatever and might just be farming as a hobby and only be getting a few bags of fertiliser. It is not clear at the moment, from what Mr. Carroll is saying, how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If the Department is hellbent on knowing the amount of fertiliser that is bought in Ireland, it will not be in a position to know that realistically. It will have a fair idea about maybe 90% of it but there could be another 10% it might not know about when, by the way, it is trying to save the world.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The import statistics are there, but Mr. Carroll mentioned a while ago that fertiliser goes up and down across the Border so it is sort of hard to nail it down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: This is a bit different from what Mr. Carroll is talking about. Does he have concerns about fertiliser next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will add more to it - no more than Monaghan or Cavan, we in Galway know a good bit about it. Another issue arises where construction of roads or cross-country pipelines is going on. I have done this myself. When a contractor is doing a reinstating job on a wayleave, he or she will make sure grass will grow. That is the bottom line. He or she is not going to go back a second time to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the witnesses. I will address fertiliser first. Mr. Murphy said that farmers who might have fertiliser this year will have to do an inventory at the beginning of next year. Take me through this. If I am a person who imports fertiliser or different products into the country and if I supply 1,200 different merchants around Ireland, do those merchants have to do something when it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is the system recording all the movement from one to the other?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Private planners probably will.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Mr. Murphy have concerns that, as was outlined earlier, fertiliser will cross the Border and basically go under the radar because of different regulations in different areas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it a herd number or a different special number that is given?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: As we discussed earlier, a myriad of people sow a few spuds or have a garden without cattle or a herd number. Some people have land but are not involved with the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine. Cross-country pipelines are being done providing fertiliser for companies. What is the theory to solve all those?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the definition of domestic fertiliser?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there a certain tonnage or anything?