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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (27 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: The total spent on badger vaccination in the past ten years in County Wicklow: The information requested is not readily available. DAFM’s Wildlife Programme is delivered by 16 Regional Veterinary offices throughout the country (RVOs). It involves the use of civilian operatives, equipment and supplies (e.g. restraints, anaesthetic, vaccination (BCG)) which are provided to DAFM under...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (16 Nov 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Charlie McConalogue: ...the Bovine TB (bTB) Eradication Programme my Department implements two main control strategies, removal and vaccination, in areas around the country where there have been epidemiological links to badgers and bovine TB breakdowns. The requested totals are provided in the table below: Year Total number of badgers captured in vaccination areas Total number of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...total spend on vaccination in County Wicklow over the ten year period, it would not be possible to accurately provide a county specific expenditure report due to the structure in place around the badger vaccination programme, the travel expenses, consumables and contractor costs can not be limited to Wicklow only. I do want to reiterate that my Department is fully committed to the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (23 Sep 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Simon Coveney: ...has been developed in response to research conducted over many years which has demonstrated that the eradication of the disease is not a practicable proposition until the reservoir of infection in badgers is addressed. Capturing of badgers takes place under Section 34 of the 1976 Wildlife Act in areas where serious outbreaks of TB have been identified in cattle herds and where Department...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (10 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Charlie McConalogue: ...the country. We are starting to see positive trends in this space with the work of the TB Forum and its working groups implementing the new TB Strategy which I launched in 2020. Vaccination of badgers has not yet been incorporated into the eradication programme in West Wicklow as the disease situation in the area is not yet suitable for vaccine use. The results of the field research...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021) See 3 other results from this debate

.... Regarding the Chairman's specific question on what is the focus on wildlife in the strategy, he is right that wildlife is a key part of the solution to reduce TB. There is a major focus on badger mediated TB. Badgers have been shown to be a source of TB in cattle for many years. Much research has been carried out in the field in Ireland which has shown that. For that reason, a...

Written Answers — Bovine Diseases: Bovine Diseases (1 Feb 2005) See 3 other results from this answer

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...

Bovine Disease Controls. (19 Nov 2009) See 1 other result from this debate

Trevor Sargent: ...and elsewhere has shown that the eradication of bovine TB is not a practicable proposition in the short to medium term because of the reservoir of infection in wildlife, particularly among badgers, which seeds infection into the cattle population. The published results of the four-area project carried out in counties Cork, Monaghan, Donegal and Kilkenny in the late 1990s and the early...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012) See 1 other result from this debate

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would be very useful if we could get a briefing note before the next meeting on the various points in amendment No. 26. The Minister has pointed out that badger culling and the use of wire snares to capture badgers is not legally permissible.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (11 Feb 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Griffin: 508. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is engaged in the practice of culling badgers; his future plans for control of the badger population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6657/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (14 May 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

Clare Daly: 18. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the continued culling of badgers, and the impact on the badger population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18655/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (10 Oct 2018) See 1 other result from this answer

Maureen O'Sullivan: 186. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a badger vaccination programme announced earlier in 2018 has commenced; and his plans to end the culling of badgers which has caused an estimated 120,000 deaths to date. [41516/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (31 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: For the purpose of clarity, all badgers captured are caught using a stopped body restraint. My Department does not deploy snares. Badgers that are culled, are done so in a humane manner, either by the use of a licensed firearm or by the administration of barbiturates by a Departmental Veterinary Inspector. All badger carcasses are sent to either a contracted private or my Department's...

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...farmers' incomes. Will the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine grant a pilot scheme to the people of Iveragh in south Kerry to eliminate tuberculosis by way of vaccinating and removing badgers? A total of 40 herds have gone down but it affects only 7% of the herd. The remainder of the animals in south Kerry are fine. We do not want to create a situation whereby people would...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...with a TB breakdown. 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. As of 16thApril 2023, on a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hare Coursing (6 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: ...Department through veterinarian attendance and of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, which issues the said licences. The Deputy digressed into a host of other issues, including badgers. She will be aware that my Department is moving to a vaccination programme for badgers rather than one of culling. While culling will continue to be an element of management in certain...

Written Answers — Tuberculosis Incidence: Tuberculosis Incidence (14 Jun 2012)

Simon Coveney: As far as I can ascertain, there has been no specific research conducted in Ireland to date on the impact of forest thinning on badger movements and the spread of TB either by or on behalf of my Department or the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), the primary organisation responsible for assessing impact on and managing wild populations. Neither has my Department identified...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (13 Mar 2019)

Michael Creed: From January 2018, the formal badger Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination programme commenced in the areas which formed part of the field trials, i.e. in parts of counties Monaghan, Longford, Galway, Tipperary, Waterford, Kilkenny, Cork and in all of Louth. Badgers in a vaccination area are captured, vaccinated and released instead of being captured and culled. The...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (8 May 2014)

Simon Coveney: The current badger removal policy was introduced as part of the bovine TB eradication programme in Ireland in 2004 in response to research conducted over the years by the Department and others which demonstrated that the eradication of Bovine TB is not a practicable proposition until the issue of the reservoir of infection in badgers, which is seeding infection into the cattle population, is...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks and Wildlife Service Remit (11 Jun 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...was highlighted by National Biodiversity Week; the way the National Parks and Wildlife Service is addressing biodiversity concerns in our national parks such as a potential population decrease in badgers due to badger culling and the return of an invasive form of rhododendrons in national parks as seen in Killarney National Park among other growing biodiversity concerns; and if he will...