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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: I was in the Chair earlier when the Deputies were away. Deputy Fitzmaurice must have been detained because we brought up this issue and Mr. Curley said he would wait until Deputy Fitzmaurice came back because the Deputy had asked about it. As Deputy Fitzmaurice must have been detained Mr. Curley will probably have to go through it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: Deputy Fitzmaurice must have been detained. Mr. Curley can fire ahead with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: I appreciate that it is not Mr. Curley's brief, but I wish to ask about international trade agreements with the EU and whether we will import foodstuffs in particular from areas we do not expect to meet the same kind of standards that will be set in the new laws. I refer specifically to the importation of food from Brazil where I presume they will still be removing rainforests at the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: Has the ILMA engaged with the Department on this?

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)

Paul Daly: I welcome the witnesses. As they quite rightly said, they have addressed this matter previously. We have been here before and have gone through in detail all the potential pitfalls of what was on the table. With that in mind, there is no need to go back over all that and rehash old ground. I would like the representatives to elaborate a little more based on their experiences. They have...

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)

Paul Daly: I apologise for interrupting but I also meant to ask how the larger co-operatives that might have an in-house vet are finding it. Is that not a solution? Is there still a problem when there is an in-house vet, or why is that not working?

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)

Paul Daly: To return to the in-house vets issue, Mr. Doyle indicated the VCI guidelines or regulations are inhibiting that and not helping it work. Why is that the case?

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)

Paul Daly: Will Mr. Carroll answer the question about 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)

Paul Daly: I have one more question. I had not wanted to hog the time at the beginning in case we ran out of time. If the committee has a bit of time I have one more question.

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)

Paul Daly: I thank the Vice Chairman. Going back again to the submission, I will quote directly from it: "... in order to protect competition in the market, it is vital that the NVPS as it is being developed provides for the full availability of appropriate generic alternative medicines." Is Mr. Doyle saying that the NVPS is being set up not to include generic medicines? If I am reading this...

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)

Paul Daly: Basically then we are talking not only about licensed merchant and co-operative jobs, we are also talking potentially about a number of other jobs in animal pharmaceutical businesses in Ireland.

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)

Paul Daly: I will come in briefly on that point just to be clear. I will use golf courses as an example. Correct management of a golf course involves an enormous amount of fertiliser at specific times. What Mr. Carroll is saying to us, as it stands at the minute, is that a golf club will not be in a position to buy fertiliser in the system. Will it not have a number?

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)

Paul Daly: I welcome the representatives from Teagasc. I will first start with the veterinary medicines side focusing specifically on antiparasitic resistance, that is, where the parasite has resistance to the drug. In its opening statement, Teagasc states that these pathogens are estimated to cost €240 million annually. Is that figure based on a loss from resistant pathogens or pathogens in...

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)

Paul Daly: Is that an estimated loss without resistance?

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)

Paul Daly: It does not factor in resistance.

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)

Paul Daly: In layman's and farmer's terms, there is not enough dosing and not enough antiparasitic medicines being administered at the moment based on those figures.

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)

Paul Daly: I wanted clarification that it was across the board. In the opinion of the witnesses, as people who are leading and working with farmers, if we are about make the system much more stringent by requiring farmers to go and get a prescription, notwithstanding the good husbandry of the Irish farmer, could Teagasc envisage a situation developing in which farmers who would dose now may do so less...

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)

Paul Daly: On that point, while we are having this debate about vets, responsible persons, merchants and co-ops, etc., the veterinary medicine manufacturers also have a major role to play here. If there are no new products, notwithstanding who is prescribing or dispensing, if a parasite has a resistance to it, we need stronger, new or different products. The products on the market are the solution to...

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)

Paul Daly: Has Teagasc done much research work on antiparasitic resistance? How long does it to take to identify it if someone is dosing or treating a herd with a product? Does it happen gradually or would administering the product have no result in the second year? How long would take to detect, with the naked or untrained eye or even by professionals, that there is a problem and there has been...

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)

Paul Daly: My next question is more for my own information. If a pathogen develops resistance, does that apply to the entire species? Can pathogens in one herd be resistant to a particular product, while pathogens in the next herd are not, because of the way that herd has been treated or managed?