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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)

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.

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 ask Mr. Geraghty to give an example.

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: So, the Ivomecs of this world, the white doses and liquid doses all need them.

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: When we want that, we ring the vet. Can the vet then say he will provide the Ivomec? Does he need to come out and look at the animals or what is going on?

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 and his colleagues want?

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 other proper-----

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 am entitled to try to establish this. I am a member of the Oireachtas committee. At the moment, I can ring my vet and ask the question. If I ring my vet on this, will I be charged every time? Is there a call-out charge?

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: Listen to this one, everybody.

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 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 is Mr. Geraghty's lead on it? Will he be telling his veterinary union that they will need to charge?

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 would feel embarrassed every time ringing my vet who is very busy asking what I would call funny questions about things where I know what to do. That is my last question to Mr. Geraghty.

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: Mr. Geraghty cannot answer it. How does the regulation impact pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers of veterinary medical products and fertilisers?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Social Protection Issues: Minister for Social Protection (11 Jun 2025)

William Aird: I will be very brief. I apologise because I had to leave for a while to attend an online meeting with HIQA. I wish the Minister well in his new brief. I thank the officials accompanying him today. Could we have a sliding scale for payments? I am new as a TD but I gave more than 40 years' service as a councillor on Laois County Council. There was always a cut-off point, which was...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Conservation (10 Jun 2025)

William Aird: 262. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current waiting list for the warmer homes scheme in County Laois; how this compares to waiting lists in other counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30636/25]