Calls for an All-Ireland health policy

ICSA president Malcolm Thompson called for an All-Ireland animal health policy at a meeting in Raphoe, Co Donegal.

“I have been around for a long time and have yet to see an orange sheep or a green one. It is time we left the politics to the politicians and left the animals out of it.

It only costs us money and more and more bureaucracy.”

Mr Thompson was speaking about the proposed POM regulations (prescription only medicines) and the new requirement for double tagging of sheep destined for slaughter in the North.

“There would be none of this nonsense if we had the same policies on both sides of the border,” he said.

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