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Written Answers — Bovine Diseases: Bovine Diseases (17 Oct 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The overall national strategy for dealing with TB includes a comprehensive range of measures, including the mandatory annual testing of all cattle in the national herd, the early removal of reactors, a wildlife programme, the use of the gamma interferon test as an adjunct to the tuberculin test in problem herds and the depopulation of infected herds in some cases. In addition, my Department...

Social Welfare Code. (10 Oct 2006)

Willie Penrose: .... The age limit for children is the first of these. I ask the Minister to examine the report produced by Camille Loftus for the One Parent Exchange and Network. This excellent report exposed all of the limitations, particularly those relating to workplace flexibility, the availability of child care and the marginalisation of people who end up worse off. People did become worse off. Ms...

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Jun 2006)

Tony Dempsey: ...for bringing forward the Bill. Since I was elected to the House, planning has probably been the third most important issue I have come across, after crime and the health service. It affects practically everyone in rural and urban areas. The Bill amends the Act of 2002. Many years ago I studied the 1963 Act when I was a student in UCD. The Act of 2002 must be amended in order that strategic...

Written Answers — Bovine Diseases: Bovine Diseases (18 May 2006)

Mary Coughlan: The overall national strategy for the eradication of TB provides for a comprehensive range of measures, including the mandatory annual testing for all cattle in the national herd, the early removal of reactors, a wildlife programme involving the targeted removal of badgers where they are implicated in a TB outbreak, the use of the gamma Interferon test in problem herds as an adjunct to the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Dec 2005)

Ulick Burke: ...been dumped in Kilkenny, I believe, but was dumped en route, in Eyrecourt. I ask the Leader to bring this to the notice of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, especially as most local authorities in the country are currently updating their waste management and regional management plans. This total disregard for public and animal health, as well as the...

Written Answers — Tuberculosis Incidence: Tuberculosis Incidence (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Coughlan: The information requested has been forwarded to the Deputy. As can be seen from the following tabular statement, while there is some variation at county level, overall the incidence of TB has fallen consistently since 1998 from 4.2 reactors per 1,000 to 2.6 in 2004. The progress made is due to a number of factors, including the continued co-operation from all parties with the eradication...

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Fianna Fáil Deputies talk about the market and supply and demand in all seriousness as if the economy means everything and society and morality mean nothing. There are other and better ways of providing farm jobs such as the initiatives the Green Party, not the Government, puts forward. Compensation could and should certainly be paid to those involved in fur farming were it to be outlawed,...

Written Answers — Bovine Diseases: Bovine Diseases (1 Feb 2005)

Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 240 to 242, inclusive, together. Various scientific investigations into the role of badgers in the spread of bovine TB have concluded that there is a link between infected badgers and the transmission and spread of the disease. The first study of the effect of the removal of badgers on the incidence of bovine TB took place in east Offaly in the 1980s and early...

Written Answers — Tuberculosis Incidence: Tuberculosis Incidence (23 Nov 2004)

Mary Coughlan: As stated in reply to Parliamentary Question No. 180 of 9 December 2003, a survey and sampling of badgers was conducted under licence in mid November 2003. A substantial proportion of the badgers were removed and these were sent for post mortem examination. A high rate of TB lesions was disclosed indicating a link with infection in the bovine herd from the local badger population. The disease...

Health Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (23 Nov 2004)

Liz McManus: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: "Dáil Éireann declines to give a second reading to the Bill in view of: (a) the inadequate time given to members of the Dáil to consider the terms of the Bill; (b) the fact that the position of Chief Executive of the Health Service Executive has yet to be filled; (c) the threatened industrial action by...

Written Answers — Badger Population: Badger Population (17 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: ...and 494 together. My Department is responsible for the issue of licences under section 23 of the Wildlife Acts 1976 and 2000 to the Department of Agriculture and Food to capture and humanely kill badgers as part of its continued research into bovine tuberculosis. The numbers of licences issued since 1995 are as follows: 1995, 337 licences; 1996, 329 licences; 1997, 423 licences;...