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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 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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of TB: Discussion (13 Dec 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

...or how can we manage this matter. There has been lots of discussion on deer management. We have looked abroad and at home and the general means of deer management is to reduce the population by culling, which is basically shooting. We have looked at previous options, such as contraception and other methods, but with deer being a wild animal such strategies are very hard to implement. A...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary)
(22 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: ...very significantly. I welcome the deer forum the Minister set up. Representatives from it are coming in to us in two or three weeks' time and we will see where progress is at regarding a deer cull. From what we are hearing on the grapevine the level of TB in deer is very significant. We do not have any hope of controlling TB in the domestic herd when it is so prevalent in wildlife....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (11 Oct 2023) See 3 other results from this answer

Holly Cairns: 183. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of badgers culled, by county, in 2022 and to date in 2023; the number of these badgers found dead in the snares; and the number that were alive and were killed by gunshot or other method. [44292/23]

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: .... The farmers get up early in the morning and get up late at night to tend to their animals when they are young, sick or being attacked by marauding gangs of foxes and deer. We cannot have a cull of the deer population which is running riot around the country. It is causing havoc in every rural area and in urban areas as well. There is danger to life and limb due to car accidents and...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (23 May 2023) See 4 other results from this answer

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 591. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current cost of the culling of each badger under the TB Eradication Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24324/23]

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) See 3 other results from this debate

...It has been eradicated elsewhere in the world, such as Australia, for example, but they were able to deal with the wildlife host or species that was involved in a different way than we can with the badger. The badger is a protected species. While we cull badgers as part of the TB eradication programme, we recognise that it is not a sustainable solution long-term. That is why we have...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (25 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Holly Cairns: 443. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of badgers culled, by county, in 2022 and to date in 2023, the number of these badgers found dead in the snares; and the number that were alive and were killed by gunshot or other method. [19178/23]

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...

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,...

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 (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: Departmental Programmes (23 Nov 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ...forms an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's (DAFM) Bovine TB Eradication Strategy.  Supported by scientific research, the current policy is to vaccinate badgers to prevent disease outbreaks and to cull badgers where necessary in response to outbreaks in areas where epidemiological investigations have demonstrated the link between badgers and TB...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (17 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: 315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of badgers that were infected with TB of those that have been culled or vaccinated in 2019, 2020 and 2021. [57042/22]

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

Marian Harkin: 202. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of badgers that were culled or vaccinated in each of the years 2019 to 2021. [56870/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022) See 7 other results from this debate

Mr. Hugh Farrell: I will respond to Deputy Carthy's questions on the badger vaccination. It is something we brought up on numerous occasions at the TB Forum. It was not mentioned here but I want to make it known that we brought it up at an earlier stage in the TB programme. We questioned the number of counties that were being done and the way it was being extended throughout the country....

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