LAST Ireland provides industry-leading veterinary, training, and compliance services to help research institutions meet their legal obligations, and lead with integrity.
LAST Ireland provides regulatory, training, and veterinary solutions to ensure your facility meets and exceeds its legal and ethical obligations.
Whether you're a university, contract research organisation (CRO), biotech firm or hospital-based lab, we offer specialist services to strengthen compliance, improve staff competency, and support high welfare standards.
Our services are fully aligned with EU Directive 2010/63/EU and the requirements of the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA).
Ensure your research complies with veterinary oversight requirements.
EU legislation mandates that all establishments using animals in research must have access to a Designated Veterinarian (DV) with expertise in laboratory animal medicine. LAST Ireland provides flexible DV coverage tailored to your institution’s needs, whether you're looking for regular in-house visits, project-based consultations, or on-call support.
Our DV services include:
By completing our Core and Species-Specific Modules, learners meet the formal educational prerequisites to apply for Individual Authorisation under Irish law. We also offer a Legal Module for professionals whose training predates 2013 or occurred outside the Irish jurisdiction.
Why it matters:
A DV is not just a regulatory tick box, they are critical for ensuring ethical treatment, mitigating risk, and maintaining trust with both regulators and the public.
Navigate complex legislation with clarity and confidence.
Compliance isn’t always straightforward, but it’s essential. LAST Ireland supports facilities through every step of ethical, legal, and procedural readiness.
Our consultancy services include:
Whether you're preparing for an HPRA inspection, updating procedures, or launching a new research project, we ensure you’re inspection-ready, and ethically sound.
Custom training packages for teams of any size.
Beyond our individual certification modules, LAST Ireland offers institutional training built around your specific needs and research portfolio.
What we offer:
We work closely with facility managers, DVs, and NACWOs to deliver training that’s not just compliant, but also engaging, relevant, and research-specific.
Our services are grounded in the legal realities of animal research and the expectations of the HPRA.
Our team includes vets, researchers, and ethics professionals who’ve worked inside the systems you’re navigating.
Everything we do reflects a deep commitment to the 3Rs; Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement, and to advancing the welfare of animals in research settings.
Institutions nationwide rely on LAST Ireland to support both training and operations with integrity, professionalism, and clarity.
LAST Ireland partners with a broad range of scientific institutions across Ireland, including:
Whether you’re managing a large-scale preclinical programme or a specialised academic study, we can help you build ethical integrity and regulatory compliance into every layer of your work.
Whether you’re exploring new partnerships or need urgent veterinary or compliance support, we’d be happy to discuss your needs.
