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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Diseases (1 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...arrive and leave? What is going on here? There are too many questions. Is it being suggested that this disease is confined to national parks? Most importantly, why is the NPWS not asking for a cull - by gassing - of all rabbits within a five-mile radius of the affected areas, as was done with badgers during the bovine TB epidemic? What is going on in the Department? Many people are...

Written Answers — Deer Population: Deer Population (7 Feb 2008)

John Gormley: ...out localised annual deer counts on lands such as National Parks. Where appropriate, and depending on the annual count and instances of damage caused by deer to habitats, especially woodland, culls are carried out to ensure that deer populations do not reach levels that would have negative ecological consequences. Control of deer on private property is the responsibility of the landowner...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (26 May 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: While wildlife are an important element in the complex epidemiology of bovine TB transmission and badgers are the primary wildlife focus in the bovine TB eradication programme. Research carried out on TB in deer in Ireland had found that in certain areas where there are high densities of deer, cattle and badgers living alongside each other, the same strains of TB can circulate between...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Deer Culls (7 Mar 2017)

Michael Creed: ...same, my officials are of the view that this is highly likely. To investigate this view, the results of an analysis (known as “strain typing”) of samples known taken from deer infected with TB and culled in the Calary area of Co. Wicklow in 2015 are currently awaited.  Previous studies have shown that some strains of TB are common to both species and indeed badgers in...

Adjournment Debate Matters (19 Nov 2009)

Brendan Howlin: ..., to provide in law for the long-promised judicial sentencing commission and ensure it is established without further delay; (6) Deputy Mary Alexandra White - the methodology to replace the culling of badgers as part of the bovine TB eradication programme; (7) Deputy Chris Andrews - the planned incinerator at Poolbeg, Dublin. The matters raised by Deputies Thomas P. Broughan, Eamon...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (28 Feb 2017)

Michael Creed: ...trees and to private gardens by deer and on TB levels in the West Wicklow area. The report proposes an all Wicklow approach to tackling the impact of deer on bovine TB and to the management of a cull. I should explain that, while I am aware of the concerns expressed by farmers in the Wicklow area about the negative impact of deer on the incidence of TB in the area and on pasture and...

Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2012)

Simon Coveney: .... There is a series of conflicting views on what constitutes the right balance where activities such as hare coursing are concerned, and I will address this in some detail in a moment. The badger culling programme, which is part of the TB eradication programme, has been hugely successful over the past ten years in terms of the number of reactors in Ireland which has more than halved...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (22 May 2012)

Simon Coveney: Ironically, we are asking farmers to do a little bit more here, but it is not necessarily a bad thing to do. Disease is often spread by wind borne spores or else by wild animals. For example, the badger culling programme, which nobody likes but is very necessary in my view, has produced significant results in reducing the incidence of TB in Irish herds. They have not taken a similar...

Order of Business (14 Oct 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: ...for Government but I would refer to it as an aspirational policy document. What does the Taoiseach intend will be included in this Bill? That document sets out the prospect of a ban on the culling of badgers, the phasing out of fur hunting and a reference to ending stag hunting. We are not quite clear on the time line for this. Will it be included in the Bill which is set out in...

Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...including any unnecessary suffering whether caused by direct physical abuse, recklessness or negligence. I welcome that. I now refer to where the legislation falls down. My first point deals with badgers. I accept that we are not fully free of bovine TB and that control measures are necessary but such measures could be carried out in a humane way, not through the most barbaric, gruesome...

Animal Welfare: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Clare Daly: ...year. That shows how much citizens are engaged in trying to deal with these issues. Only 16 cases were finalised in court and the penalties imposed were ridiculously low. Deputy O'Sullivan dealt with badger culling and so on. I want to deal with badger baiting, which is illegal in this State but which, as we speak here tonight, is happening. It is an absolutely reprehensible, cruel,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

...enough to successfully eradicate TB from Ireland by 2030. I am sure members will remember that 2030 is the target year that was set by the Department. Prior to the recent introduction of badger vaccination, it is my view, which is one that is widely shared, that we did not have the tools to eradicate TB. It was very much a control programme that focused on how we could ensure TB...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Jun 2019)

Lynn Ruane: ...Justice and Equality to the petitioner and close the petition. Is that agreed? Agreed. Petition No. P00024/19 is from Ms Laura Moore. This petitioner would like to see the immediate end to all badger culling and the implementation of a tuberculosis, TB, vaccination programme for badgers. The petition states that a vaccination programme was proposed by the Government in 2018 but has...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (24 Feb 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: ...Spatial and network characteristics of Irish cattle movements. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 183, 105095, doi 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2020.105095 Martin, S.W., et al., 2020. Is moving from targeted culling to BCG-vaccination of badgers (Meles meles) associated with an unacceptable increased incidence of cattle herd tuberculosis in the Republic of Ireland? A practical non-inferiority...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: .... The farmers get up early in the morning and get up late at night to tend to their animals when they are young, sick or being attacked by marauding gangs of foxes and deer. We cannot have a cull of the deer population which is running riot around the country. It is causing havoc in every rural area and in urban areas as well. There is danger to life and limb due to car accidents and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks and Wildlife Service Staff (20 Feb 2018)

Josepha Madigan: ..., as required, and many of these officers carry out work in more than one county. They also investigate, for example, reports of breaches of legislation including illegal snaring or ‘digging out’ of badgers, as well monitoring compliance at coursing events etc. With specific regard to the issues of  rhododendron and  deer management raised by the Deputy, my...

Seanad: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (25 Nov 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: ...a doubling of funding for animal welfare organisations within two years. That has never happened before in a programme for Government. There will also be the phasing out of fur farming, the ending of badger culling and many other measures, including the enforcement of laws, as referred to by Senator Hoey. The laws are there but they are not actually enforced. This is what we need to...

Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Sub-Committee on Fisheries: Fishery Management Plan: Discussion with Iascarí Intíre Cois Cladach na hÉireann (25 Jun 2013)

Martin Ferris: ...of what the witnesses are promoting so that the 4,500 people involved in the sector can put food on the table for their families, live in the communities in which they were born and continue in the industry. Culling seals as humanely as possible, which has always been done, is how we protect stocks. Some cowboys do it and give the whole thing a bad name and it has the opposite effect....

Topical Issue Matters (16 Jul 2014)

Michael Kitt: ...between Bord Bia, farmers and processors regarding the operation of the beef assurance scheme which could undermine the country's marketing strategy for Ireland's multi-million euro beef exports; (11) Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan - to discuss badger culling in light of Russia banning Irish beef due to suspected bovine TB; (12) Deputy Joan Collins - to raise the fact that on 11 July the...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: .... A topic in which I take a personal interest is animal welfare and I acknowledge the work of the Minister, Deputy Coveney, in this regard. However, there is another disconnect here in that although he funds animal welfare organisations that work with animals, which is great, we continue to allow cases and so-called pastimes in which cruelty to animals is involved and I am referring to...