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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: 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?

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: Regarding the animal medicines, is Teagasc concerned that this is basically going to one group, vets? As the witnesses will be aware, in parts of Ireland vets are scarcer than co-ops or veterinary stores. Has Teagasc highlighted any fear to the Department about that?

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: Dr. Keane spoke about a task force. Who sat on that? I presume Teagasc was represented.

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: Were there farmers?

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: You would imagine-----

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: Was that basically a submission thing?

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: Dr. Keane would advise better education. I presume she would not be opposed to the person who was always administering it even if they had to do another course to help them in education it would be helpful for-----

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: How big is the resistance problem?

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: Resistance is an issue in gut worm.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason he is not resolving the grant system for persons who were not registered for septic tanks and who have had an inspection and been refused the grant assistance as their tank was not registered. [46756/22]

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 understood that the timeframe for some of this was last summer but it seemed to be getting kicked repeatedly down the road. I remember everyone who attended a committee meeting here at one time was going to have one system done by February or March and have everything up and running in a few months. By the summer, it was going to be "hey presto, we are away". We are now heading into...

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: No representative of a farmer organisation could sit on it. Based on the discussion between Dr. Keane and Deputy Carthy, there is no evidence to say one is better than the other at administering it. No research has been done on that. Am I correct saying that?