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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

...by efforts to reduce TB in the human population. Many of us will be aware from family members that at that time TB was a scourge in the human population. It was commonly known as consumption, or galloping consumption. It was estimated that 12,000 people a year died from TB in Ireland in the 1900s. It remained a serious and significant disease of people right through the 1920s, 1930s...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

Willie Penrose: ...Shannon every year and many Deputies and Ministers won or lost their seats on that basis. I am wondering if this is a bit like that. When I was a young person back in 1974, with black hair, I recall this being a desirable objective at that time. That is 44 years ago. I hope it is achieved for everybody's sake, even from a human health perspective. I am glad that the great work done by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

...-funded research project was done a few years ago and found that 16% of deer shot as part of the pilot project in Wicklow had TB and that the same strains of TB were circulating in cattle, badgers and deer in this part of Wicklow. The Department is facilitating farmers to take action in Wicklow in this regard. In fact, I am attending a meeting tomorrow of the Wicklow deer management...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

...to be concerned about. It is impossible to say that it has never happened that a deer has not infected a bovine. There is certainly evidence in Wicklow that the same strains are affecting cattle, badgers and deer. A question arises as to whether all three are infecting one another. Outside Wicklow, we have the data that I have explained. We have only found three positives out of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: ...committee, as are a number of my colleagues, and we would love to be able to say the same thing about the climate change targets. There is a map of Ireland on the last page of the statement, called figure 3, which shows that County Monaghan and the surrounding areas are a hotspot or red spot for the incidence of TB. It was stated that the issue had worsened in the past few years, thus...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

...: Possums are not a protected species so they can be shot without having to worry about the Bern convention. New Zealand has similar issues to ours. Senator Mulherin asked whether vaccinating badgers is physically a big job. Yes, we have to physically catch them and inject them. It is a big job but we have a lot of information in respect of badgers. At this stage we know where every...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

Mr. Philip Breslin: The bug that causes TB - mycobacterium bovis - and all the microbacteria is that they are quite unusual as bacteria. They grow slowly. It can take up to 20 days for them to replicate, whereas a bug like E. coli, with which we are familiar because of the difficulties it can cause in water, can replicate in 20 minutes. There is a certain resistance in some animals....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

...of years. First, as Mr. Sheahan mentioned, we will produce a number of short videos on how to make farms more biosecure in order to avoid the spread of TB in herds, issues relating to wildlife, badgers or whatever, issues regarding the purchase of animals and, perhaps, animals in people's herds, and whether farmers needs to look at the older animals in their herds. In addition,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

Mr. Michael Sheahan: On cattle rustling, the numbers of cattle stolen are relatively small in the grand scheme of things. We are not aware of that being a particular risk factor in any outbreaks. As regards the cause of the problems in County Monaghan, for a number of years the county was at the national average in terms of the level of disease and then it crept up and after that there...