Nominations for Council Serving on AVSPNI Council allows you to become more involved in important decisons affecting
vets in the province, from helping to shape the CPD programme, through to representation of the Association and the profession
in discussions with DARD on matters of animal health, welfare and policy. Council memebrs for 2010 were approved at
the AGM (6th January), but if you would be interested in standing for Council in future years, give one of the current Council
members a call to hear more about it. Nomination forms are avaiiable to download from the beginning of December onwards.
The Northern Ireland Audit Office report on the
Control of Bovine TB in Northern Ireland
This long awaited report was published
on 18th March 2009 and was widely reported in the local and farming print and broadcast media. It is ostensibly a review
of DARD's policy and implementation, but as PVPs carry out a large proprtion of testing, they also come under scrutiny. AVSPNI would welcome practitioners comments on the content and tone of the report, and on its subsequent coverage in the
media. If you would like an AVSPNI officer to conatct you to discuss yout views more fully, please include a phone number.
Following publication of the report, the Chief Veterinary Officer, the Head of Veterinary Policy
and the Permanent Secretary were required to give evidence to the Public Accounts Committee. Representatives of
AVSPNI and VetNI attended this public session, and the formal AVSPNI press release follwing it is available for download below.
If you are an AVSPNI member and would like an update on what happens next in terms of actions/meetigns as a result
of the NIAO report, please use the form above to request an e-mail update. A full account will be given at the
AVSPNI Summer Meeting on 17th June.
