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Written Answers — Animal Diseases: Animal Diseases (11 Mar 2008)

Mary Coughlan: ...of formal studies which demonstrated that a marked reduction in the levels of tuberculosis and a significant reduction in the risk of a herd experiencing a TB breakdown was observed when the local badger population was maintained at a low level. The total number of badgers culled under the project was 1,797. Of this number, 195 badgers were found to be tuberculosis infected on gross...

Written Answers — Tuberculosis Incidence: Tuberculosis Incidence (20 Nov 2007)

Mary Coughlan: While a cull of deer has not been undertaken, a study has been underway in the south County Dublin area since February 2007 with the objective of seeking to establish what similarities there are between the TB strain types found in cattle, badgers and deer in the area. This is a slow process and the study will not be completed for several months. It is not expected that it will be possible...

Written Answers — Deer Population: Deer Population (17 Oct 2007)

Mary Coughlan: ...issues relating to wild deer rests with the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government. My Department does not have a role in the culling of wild deer or in relation to statistics on the deer population in Co. Wicklow. Any queries in relation to the deer population or proposals to cull deer in Wicklow should be taken up...

Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (27 Feb 2007)

Mary Coughlan: My Department implements a wildlife strategy, which includes the targeted removal of badgers, under licence issued by the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government where they are implicated in an outbreak of TB. Capturing is undertaken in areas where serious outbreaks of Tuberculosis have been identified in cattle herds and where an epidemiological investigation carried out by...

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 — 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...