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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: On culling versus vaccination, I have all sorts of reasons why I do not like badger culling from my own political background. I also understood it to be fantastically expensive per badger culled, however. Are we phasing that out as a practice entirely? Are we moving towards vaccination? Where does the balance lay currently? What is the current state of play?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (9 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...and challenging. There are three main sources of infection for cattle - the purchase of infected cattle, the presence of residual (undetected) infection within cattle herds and from wildlife (badgers predominately),. The relative importance of these factors vary from herd to herd and all three need to be addressed to protect livestock and eradicate TB. Specifically on the issue...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...and challenging. There are three main sources of infection for cattle - the purchase of infected cattle, the presence of residual (undetected) infection within cattle herds and from wildlife (badgers predominately). The relative importance of these factors vary from herd to herd and all three need to be addressed to protect livestock and eradicate TB. Specifically on the issue of...

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

Mary Coughlan: ...by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The study, which concentrated mostly on the situation in the United Kingdom, indicates that, in the UK, badgers are implicated in transmitting Mycobacterium bovis, the causative agent of bovine tuberculosis (TB), to cattle. This finding is line with research undertaken concerning bovine TB in Ireland....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (9 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...TB is complex and challenging. There are three main sources of infection for cattle, the purchase of infected cattle, the presence of residual (undetected) infection within cattle herds. and wildlife (badgers predominately),The relative importance of these factors varies from herd to herd and all three need to be addressed to eradicate TB, and the national TB eradication programme....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (27 May 2020)

Michael Creed: In February 2018, I announced that vaccination of badgers against tuberculosis (TB) had commenced as an integral part of the bovine TB eradication programme. Vaccination would commence in areas where successful field trials had already taken place with a view to gradually rolling it out to other parts of the country over time. As I stated then, my view is that this marks a major step...

Other Questions: Bovine Disease Controls (14 May 2015) See 6 other results from this debate

Maureen O'Sullivan: I suggest there could be other reasons for the improvement in the reduction in the levels of bovine TB apart from the cull of the badgers. There is no doubt that everybody wants a cattle herd free of bovine TB. It was interesting to read this report which was carried out by the Minister's Department, Trinity College and the National Parks and Wildlife Service over four years. What it...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (16 Sep 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

Paul Murphy: 316. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of badgers vaccinated and culled in 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will immediately end the cull in view of the findings of his Department funded study which concluded that vaccination could be a highly effective means of reducing the incidence of tuberculosis in badger populations. [44308/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (7 Sep 2018) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Creed: The numbers of badgers culled annually are published as part of the Annual Report of the National Parks and Wildlife Service of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, and I attach for the Deputy’s convenience the figures for 2015 and 2016 extracted from those Annual Reports – tables 1 and 2 below. While the figures for 2017 are not yet published, I am in a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bovine Disease Controls (27 Oct 2016) See 1 other result from this answer

Clare Daly: 41. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the effectiveness of the badger culling strategy incorporated into the national TB eradication programme in reducing the incidence of bovine TB; his further views on plans by his Department to initiate a badger vaccination programme as an alternative to culling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32196/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (15 Jan 2019) See 1 other result from this answer

Charlie McConalogue: 842. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the process by which a badger cull can be initiated in cases in which there is a high instance of TB outbreak; if it is possible for a group of farmers in a locality to seek for a badger cull to be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1505/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (27 Feb 2018) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Creed: ...operating protocols, where herds are identified with a serious outbreak of bovine tuberculosis, and where my Department’s epidemiological investigations into the cause of the breakdown implicates badgers as a possible source, a capturing program is set up in the local area. The aims of the program are to manage the local population of badgers downward to mitigate badger to cattle...

Other Questions: TB Eradication Scheme (26 Mar 2013)

Simon Coveney: The badger programme is a targeted one. There is a great deal of misunderstanding about how we catch and put down badgers. We try to do it as humanely as possible. The view that we use wire snares is incorrect. We had a long discussion on the programme during the debates on the Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 on Second and Committee Stages. I reassure people that we are trying to do...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (30 Jun 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

Simon Coveney: There is very considerable scientific evidence of a link between badgers and cattle in the context of the spread of bovine TB. Research conducted over the years by the Department and others has demonstrated that the eradication of bovine TB disease is not a practicable proposition until the issue of the reservoir of infection in badgers, which is seeding infection into the cattle population,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (31 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: My Department's TB eradication programme incorporates a wildlife strategy because tuberculosis is present both in cattle and in badgers. Research conducted over the years by the Department and others has demonstrated that the eradication of bovine TB disease is not a practicable proposition until the issue of the reservoir of infection in badgers, which is seeding infection into the cattle...

Other Questions: Bovine Disease Controls (30 Nov 2016) See 4 other results from this debate

Clare Daly: Rabies was eliminated from European foxes using baited vaccine many years ago. The idea that we have been discussing a vaccination programme for badgers for 25 years is quite shocking. The Minister's reply to the effect that it will take us a further two years before we see any progress in this direction is most concerning. This is against the backdrop of firm information to the effect...

Written Answers — Animal Diseases: Animal Diseases (14 Dec 2011)

Simon Coveney: There is considerable evidence that badgers are responsible for the spread of bovine TB and that their removal results in a reduction in the incidence of the disease in cattle. I would refer the Deputy to a paper entitled Mycobacterium bovis Infection in the Eurasian Badger (Meles Meles): the Disease. Pathogenesis, Epidemiology and Control which was published in Science Direct earlier this...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (18 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Badger vaccination is now an integral part of the Irish TB Eradication Programme. This follows over 15 years of research work using BCG vaccine to prevent tuberculosis infection in badgers, and scientific trials carried out between 2013 and 2017 that show that vaccination is no less effective than culling. In 2022, there were 7,245 badgers captured in vaccination zones. In 2023 to date,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of TB: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Dr. Damien Barrett: I will take the question on vaccination. Deputy Fitzmaurice asked how much vaccination is going on. I will also mention culling. This year to date we have captured more than 8,000 badgers for vaccination. This is an increase from approximately 1,900 in 2019. Since 2019, apart from 2020 when there was a reduction because of Covid, we have been culling between 5,000...