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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (10 Oct 2018)

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]

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: .... A topic in which I take a personal interest is animal welfare and I acknowledge the work of the Minister, Deputy Coveney, in this regard. However, there is another disconnect here in that although he funds animal welfare organisations that work with animals, which is great, we continue to allow cases and so-called pastimes in which cruelty to animals is involved and I am referring to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (30 Jun 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 327. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine notwithstanding the lack of scientific evidence linking badgers to the spread of tuberculosis to cattle, if he will initiate a programme of vaccinating badgers, carried out by his Department's staff and-or volunteers, to replace the cruel badger cull which is destroying badger populations, in view of a recent analysis (details...

Other Questions: Bovine Disease Controls (14 May 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: There must be other reasons for the reduction in the levels of bovine TB. This cull of badgers has been called slaughter masquerading as science.

Other Questions: Bovine Disease Controls (14 May 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 12. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of a report (details supplied) and the findings of the study that badgers avoid fields of cattle and farm buildings containing cattle, if he will acknowledge that badgers have been wrongfully vilified; if he will accordingly suspend his Department's practice of badger cull, which to date has resulted in the snaring and...

Other Questions: Bovine Disease Controls (14 May 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The question relates to a recent report after a four year study which indicates that badgers do not seek out cattle and actively avoid them. In that case is there not a justifiable reason to suspend the culling of badgers?

Other Questions: Bovine Disease Controls (14 May 2015)

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...

Other Questions: TB Eradication Scheme (23 Sep 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 10. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he is pursuing a badger cull when guarantees have been given about rolling out a vaccination programme for badgers infected with TB; the reason his Department is tendering for the provision of 25,000 units of biological material, which are essentially body bags for badgers; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Other Questions: TB Eradication Scheme (23 Sep 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: My question relates to the reason a badger cull is being pursued and why the Department has tendered for 25,000 units of biological material, essentially body bags for badgers, when it has given a commitment to roll out a vaccination programme to control bovine TB.

Other Questions: TB Eradication Scheme (23 Sep 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: That is a most unfortunate answer because in the context of a badger cull we are talking about a most inhumane, cruel and barbaric way of dealing with bovine TB, when first, it has not been fully proven that the badger is totally responsible for the disease, and there are doubts over some of the experiments that initially proved that was the case. Second, a reduction in TB in cattle can also...

Other Questions: TB Eradication Scheme (23 Sep 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Recent reports have shown that injecting badgers significantly reduces the progress and severity of TB. Unlike culling, vaccination does not disrupt the badger's social group and it provides immunity indirectly to unvaccinated badger cubs. An experiment was conducted where one third of the badger population was injected and immunity immediately spread to the rest of the badger population....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (19 Jun 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...to at the Animal Health and Welfare Conference which took place on 16 May 2014 in Dublin Castle; if he is committed to re-engaging on the outstanding issues of hare coursing, digging out of foxes, badger culling, fur farming and the use of animals in circuses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26098/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks and Wildlife Service Remit (11 Jun 2014)

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...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Incidence (20 Feb 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm when the results from several badger vaccination trials will be released; if he will cease badger culling in the meantime in view of the fact that €3.4 million was spent on culling 6,939 badgers in 2012 and only 55 less cattle were diagnosed with Bovine TB in comparison to 2011, and in view of the fact...

Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (28 Mar 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I am disappointed on the big issues of blood sports, in particular hare coursing, the cruel practice of digging out foxes, the use of traps in badger culling and fur farms. However, I acknowledge the Minister's patience and the way in which he has co-operated and, with his staff, been available to discuss the issues with Deputy Clare Daly and I. It was a very good exercise and was conducted...

Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...opportunity to speak to amendment No. 14. We would have liked to have been able to draw attention to the cruelty of the digging-out aspect of wild animals going to ground involving the use of ferrets to the culling of badgers and the use of horrific which leaves them waiting to be shot and their young to starve. We discussed this issue on Committee Stage and I understand the Minister is...

Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...that the Minister was working on this Bill, there was a great sense that finally we were going to do the right thing and that cruel practices such as hare coursing, the gassing of mink and the culling of badgers would finally be eradicated. I want to go back to the beginning of the Bill. In the Long Title, on page seven, it is definitely stated that the aim of the Bill is to prevent...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...or environmental control carried out by legitimate personnel, (g ) the use of Ladder traps and Larsen traps to trap birds and mammals, (h ) the use of ferrets for the hunting of an animal, (i ) badger culling and the use of wire snares to capture badgers, (j ) farming of mink or foxes for their fur, (k ) the use of wild animals in circus performances,". Amendment put.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...to animals, particularly the hare but also the greyhound. I accept what the Minister said about the eradication of TB. Is there independent peer-reviewed scientific evidence on the efficiency of badger culling as opposed to pursuing a vaccination programme? Is it true that €70 million of our money went on the TB eradication programme in 2011, which involved the culling of...

Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...including any unnecessary suffering whether caused by direct physical abuse, recklessness or negligence. I welcome that. I now refer to where the legislation falls down. My first point deals with badgers. I accept that we are not fully free of bovine TB and that control measures are necessary but such measures could be carried out in a humane way, not through the most barbaric, gruesome...