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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)

Michael McNamara: Yes, of course.

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)

Michael McNamara: According to the Northern Irish Department?

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)

Michael McNamara: Should it have as much to say about what happens in Northern Ireland as - I do not know; take your pick - Vladimir Putin?

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)

Michael McNamara: This is the question I am asking. If the current system whereby a person can go to a merchant for antiparasitics or an antibiotic, etc. is removed, does anyone on the panel think we are not going to see a huge increase in people ordering from Northern Ireland, thereby completely defeating the purpose of the regulation?

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)

Michael McNamara: Is that phenomenon going to increase dramatically?

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)

Michael McNamara: Because of a different interpretation across the Border.

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)

Michael McNamara: It will, therefore, be self-defeating. Implementing it will defeat the purpose of the EU legislation in the first place.

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)

Michael McNamara: That is all I wanted to clarify.

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

Michael McNamara: I was listening to this from my office and when I heard about the 20% cap on Bord na Mona I decided to come down. How did it come about? Very few farms are comprised of 100% peatland but there are farms where it comprises far more than 20% of the holding. These farmers might have to rewet all of the peatland regardless of what proportion of the holding it comprises. Is this correct?

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

Michael McNamara: How did the 20% cap for Bord na Mona come about?

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

Michael McNamara: For anybody?

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

Michael McNamara: Not all Bord na Mona lands are subject to extraction now. A certain proportion of its lands have not been subject to peat extraction for a considerable period of time. Does the regulation state that any land that was ever subject to extraction is exemp? Was that the initial proposal?

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

Michael McNamara: I understand what Mr. Curley said about drained peatland, but how do areas that were subject to peat extraction and were drained peatland end up being exempted? Perhaps I have missed something.

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

Michael McNamara: Mr. Curley said that initially, under the first proposal, all Bord na Móna lands that were subject to peat extraction were exempted and did not have to be rewetted. Then, under the second proposal-----

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

Michael McNamara: -----it was capped. They were included but there was a cap at 20%.

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

Michael McNamara: To be clear, 70% of agricultural areas that were comprised of drained peatland had to be rewet, and all Bord na Móna lands had to be rewet, under the first proposal. Under the second proposal, up to 20% of Bord na Móna lands could be included in the 70%.

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

Michael McNamara: What happens to the other 80% of Bord na Móna lands?

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

Michael McNamara: What about Coillte peatlands? Do I understand correctly that if they are the subject of afforestation, they do not have to be rewet but if they are not afforested, they do have to be rewet?

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

Michael McNamara: What happens the rest? A lot of the Coillte estate is comprised of peatlands that are planted with Sitka spruce. What happens all of that?

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

Michael McNamara: Where does this legislation go from here? What is the process to be followed? I presume it is co-decision legislation. What happens from here? I ask Mr. Curley to go through it briefly. I appreciate that we are out of time.