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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)

Eileen Lynch: The witnesses provided figures about the effect this will have on their businesses. Rural Ireland is the larger element. Their groups are feeling this on the ground already despite the fact that only part of it has been implemented at this point.

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

Eileen Lynch: I thank the representatives of Veterinary Ireland and the Veterinary Council of Ireland for being with us and for their comprehensive reports. As the witnesses are aware, we have heard from the Department and the merchants association. The arguments they put forward related to the monopoly in the provision of animal health services that has occurred as the result of the statutory...

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

Eileen Lynch: May I come in there? In the time that this has changed, the use of these products has remained constant, has it not?

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

Eileen Lynch: The whole point was that a farmer would have a vet on site on the farm saying that cows A, B and C required dry cow tubes. It was meant to reduce their use-----

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

Eileen Lynch: -----because it would be more targeted.

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

Eileen Lynch: Where are those statistics? Is that proven?

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

Eileen Lynch: Does Mr. Geraghty believe that the NVPS will realistically be able to work? I appreciate that it has only been mandatory since the start of the year. Given the volume it will need to deal with and the uptake up to this point, does he believe it is really viable from an efficiency point of view?

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

Eileen Lynch: My query was passed on to me by Deputy Newsome Drennan, who asked me to raise it on her behalf. We have been discussing the impact, both now and in the future, of the prescription of antiparasitic products. Is there a cap on the number of wormers one can have on a farm? Is there a proposal that it would be capped in terms of what is in the SI in that regard?

Seanad: Situation in Gaza: Statements (29 May 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I wish to first acknowledge the Tánaiste's statement on this matter. I thank him for being in the Seanad this morning and for his continuing commitment to peace. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, here today. Gaza, unfortunately, is now synonymous with suffering, displacement, human tragedy and genocide. Let me begin by reaffirming a belief shared across this...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2025)

PJ Murphy: I would like to raise the continued closure of one of Ireland's most iconic coastal castles, Dunguaire Castle, on the Wild Atlantic Way in Kinvara. Until 2023, Dunguaire Castle was open to the public throughout the tourism season and was run and managed under the ownership of the Shannon Group. In 2023, a decision was made that the ownership of Dunguaire Castle would be handed over to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I rise to address an important and prominent issue, which is the issue of the payment of the widow's pension. Unfortunately, a person can become a widow or lose their spouse or cohabiting partner at any age and they then receive this widow's pension based on the stamps of their deceased spouse or partner.An issue affecting many of my constituents and people right across the country, and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2025)

Eileen Lynch: It is disingenuous to say the double jeopardy rule applies in this case. I call on the Minister for Social Protection to come to the House to address the matter.

Seanad: Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2025: Second Stage (28 May 2025)

PJ Murphy: I second the amendment. As Fine Gael’s spokesperson on housing in the Seanad and as the owner of a construction business that specialises in the conservation and restoration of historic buildings, having read the Bill, I believe it is a well-considered Bill. I am very supportive of the vast majority of this Bill. Given the extent of dereliction in our towns and villages around the...

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

Eileen Lynch: I welcome the Minister and thank him for being with us. I congratulate him on his appointment and wish him luck for the term ahead. I do not want to repeat what has been said. I am conscious of time. The nitrates derogation is incredibly important for farmers, especially as I come from Cork. It is such a big issue in Cork and the wider Munster area. I am glad to hear the Minister's...

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

Eileen Lynch: I thank the Minister. I welcome his commitment to try to maintain ring-fenced funding through CAP. It is important that the funding is just for CAP. There are proposed measures that would include environment funding and we need to be strongly against that. I welcome the Minister's commitment in that regard. I will speak about TB, which I appreciate has been mentioned by many other...

Seanad: Local Democracy Task Force: Statements (27 May 2025)

PJ Murphy: I wish to share time with Senator Mark Duffy.

Seanad: Local Democracy Task Force: Statements (27 May 2025)

PJ Murphy: I thank the Minister of State for coming in to discuss this matter. As somebody who served five and half years as a local councillor in Galway County Council before my election to the Seanad, I greatly welcome that the Government will convene this local democracy task force, which will bring forward proposals to Government to consider for the reform and strengthening of local government. ...

Seanad: Local Democracy Task Force: Statements (27 May 2025)

Eileen Lynch: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. It is important that we discuss the local democracy task force today and the important role of local government across the country. The programme for Government recognises that real democracy begins at local level. It was in this spirit that the Seanad's local democracy task force produced its reports. The findings were clear: local government in Ireland...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Renewable Energy Generation (21 May 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I thank the Minister of State for being here this morning. I want to speak on an issue of urgency and strategic importance, not just for our national climate goals but for rural communities across the country, particularly in my own county of Cork. In north-west Cork there is currently potential for the development of a biomethane plant in Kilvoultra, a rural community just outside Macroom....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Renewable Energy Generation (21 May 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I thank the Minister of State for such a comprehensive response. I really welcome the confirmation that these planning guidelines are in the ether. I would appreciate hearing if there is any particular timeline. I am very much in favour of biomethane and biogas. It is well established technology in mainland Europe but it is not necessarily something we have investigated here. It has many...