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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)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Why has the responsible person been accepted by the EU in Northern Ireland but not here in southern Ireland?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Why are they allowed to in Northern Ireland? They are part of the EU as well.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes. They are part of the EU as well.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I did not ask that question. I am asking about the responsible person.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: But how do you balance it? At the moment, you can buy a calf and you have to buy milk replacer and meal off them. You have to do everything right up along until that calf goes to wherever it is going. They are a totally different outfit from the small merchant down the country that you run into to get the dosing stuff, or a pharmacy. How do we balance 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)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Department accept that it will be more expensive on farmers from now 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)

Michael Fitzmaurice: In the North they can.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: No. It was in the UK because the UK had done something our Department did not do. Is there any possibility the Department will go back to Europe to ask if there is any upskilling, be it through veterinary nurses or the responsible person? Is there any hope the Department will talk to them about trying to resolve that issue? That needs doing. Will there be a resolution - we have talked...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Even though they can do it in Northern Ireland this minute, and it is in the EU. They can do it if they are the responsible person, but we cannot.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: If I get a faecal egg count, I have to go to the local vet and do all that. If I go to the vet in January or February and ask for a dose for fluke or worms, I can get it from a distance. What is going to resolve that issue? That seems to be a major stumbling block at the moment.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: No, I am talking-----

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: ----- about if I get a faecal egg count, it is called therapeutic. Is that right?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am trying to get as many in as I can.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is 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)

Michael Fitzmaurice: They were in the EU at the time. Is that not correct? They still are in the EU.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: 220. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the forthcoming RHO will deal with the liquid fuel and gas sectors separately given the fact that the liquid fuel sector will be in a position to deliver a higher obligation rate the gas sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29215/25]

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: 221. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in the preparation of the forthcoming RHO, has he considered the creation of a separate scheme for liquid fuels which could be combined with highly successful RTFO. [29216/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (10 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the provisions that will be made for a person who has to transfer their UK licence for insurance purposes; if his Department will acknowledge classes not recognised by the NDLS should that person wish to return to the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29159/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Accidents (10 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fatal road accidents involving a HGV vehicle that occurred in 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29160/25]