Results 81-100 of 469 for speaker:Paul Lawless
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: May I stop Ms Garvan there? She mentioned 85,000 prescriptions on the system. How many of those were purchased at the site of a merchant or a pharmacist, for 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)
Paul Lawless: How many? Out of 85,000, how many were purchased from-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: That is 85 out of 85,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: Was any consideration given at Department level to potentially training merchants to prescribe any type of non-therapeutic medicine or to engage in any way possible such that they would have access to that system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: In terms of a happy medium when it comes to approach, was there any consideration at Department level as regards the targeted advisory service on animal health, the TASAH scheme whereby a vet could prescribe non-therapeutics at a particular point and then allow, for example, the farmer to purchase the medicines wherever he sees fit? Was that ever considered in this regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: Going back to the points about the monopoly of the market, there are concerns here that the large players in the market, who I will not mention, could potentially monopolise this market in the sense that we could actually take the business away from the vets themselves and open the door for such a system to come into play.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: In terms of a mitigation factor, it is not a good start.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: Do we have 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)
Paul Lawless: I thank the representatives from the Veterinary Council of Ireland and Veterinary Ireland for appearing before the committee. They are probably getting a sense that there is a concern here. We need to ensure that we address the issues in terms of the spread and so on. However, a monopoly will potentially arise. I understand that Dr. Caroline Garvan earlier advised that there were 85,000...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: I am sorry to interrupt Ms Muldoon. I appreciate her answer. Is there any possibility within the TASAH scheme whereby farmers could receive their prescriptions for non-therapeutic medicines? In this way, it may reduce the additional cost. This will bring a cost to farmers; there is no question about that. Is there a possibility? Is that being considered? It may be a question for 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)
Paul Lawless: May I return to the meeting in a few moments?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Electricity Grid (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: This Government, in fairness, is great at documents and plans but very poor on delivery. The Minister spent most of his time acknowledging the work of the ESB, which has done tremendous work, but I want to know how many meters have been cleared. For example, there are thousands of kilometres of ESB lines where trees are growing up through those lines. There are guidelines that state the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Electricity Grid (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: Clearance.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Electricity Grid (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: It is depending on the tree.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Electricity Grid (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: With respect, it is six months after the storm and we are still at survey stage.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Electricity Grid (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: In many cases what we need is action. I recently had contact from a family who experienced a power outage. They live at the end of a forest. They are living in fear of the next storm. They know that should a storm hit, they will certainly experience a power outage. This is the type of work we need to get down to business on. I appreciate the survey is being undertaken but we are now in...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Electricity Grid (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: 100. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied with the current resilience of the ESB network in light of the damage caused by Storm Éowyn; the measures that have been taken in the five months since that storm to identify and develop dedicated corridors or pathways to protect electricity infrastructure; if he will provide an update on the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Electricity Grid (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: I ask the Minister about Storm Éowyn and the preparations that I hope are under way to make the grid more resilient. I am sure the Minister is well aware of the difficulties, as is the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, in my constituency, which experienced huge fallout from the storm. Many houses have only recovered connectivity and landline communications in recent weeks. What steps...
- Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 1: To Insert the following after "rolling planned maintenance will support this": "commits to: — reducing the turnaround time for vacated local authority homes to new tenants from the current average of eight months, to a two month average turnaround time; and — ensuring that local authorities be permitted to apply to the Vacant...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Lawless: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of the new projects that will be delivered under the shared island scheme in the next five years. [25742/25]