One rule for farm animals ...

FARMERS ground down by bureaucracy have the right to question policies devised by the armies of EU and national civil servants, and to remedial action when they get it wrong.

A legitimate question has now been raised by Fine Gael Agriculture and Food Spokesperson, Denis Naughten.

He detects double standards, when the Minister for Health introduces a law to allow nurses to issue prescriptions for human medicines, within months of the Minister for Agriculture passing a law forbidding anyone other than veterinary surgeons from issuing prescriptions for animals.