Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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675. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 384 of 1 April 2021, the status of plans to retroactively amend SI No. 786 of 2007 to enable responsible persons to prescribe anti-parasitic medicines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22597/21]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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Under Article 105(4) of EU Regulation 2019/6, professionals other than veterinarians are only permitted to prescribe certain veterinary medicines if a Member State facilitated this at the time the Regulation came into force in 2019.

Such a system did not exist in Ireland at that time and amending national legislation retrospectively would not have retroactive effect, nor would it alter this fact.