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- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (8 Jul 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: 607. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the cull of badgers to stop the spread of TB (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29859/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (8 Jul 2014)
Simon Coveney: My Department’s TB Eradication Programme has incorporated a comprehensive badger removal policy since 2004 in response to research conducted over the years by the Department and others which demonstrated that the eradication of the disease is not a practicable proposition until the issue of the reservoir of infection in badgers, which is seeding infection into the cattle population, is...