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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...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (22 May 2012)

Simon Coveney: Ironically, we are asking farmers to do a little bit more here, but it is not necessarily a bad thing to do. Disease is often spread by wind borne spores or else by wild animals. For example, the badger culling programme, which nobody likes but is very necessary in my view, has produced significant results in reducing the incidence of TB in Irish herds. They have not taken a similar...

Written Answers — Animal Diseases: Animal Diseases (1 Mar 2012) See 2 other results from this answer

Patrick Nulty: Question 192: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding his research on the development of a bait based vaccination against TB for badgers and the related pilot project; his views that this research can lead to an end to badger culling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11985/12]

Tuberculosis Incidence (9 Feb 2012) See 4 other results from this debate

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine the current badger population in Ireland; and if he can provide independent peer reviewed evidence that supports badger culling as a proven successful strategy in the eradication of bovine TB. [7543/12]

Written Answers — Animal Diseases: Animal Diseases (11 Jan 2012) See 1 other result from this answer

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 732: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has referred to the Krebs report 1997, which counterargues the success rate of badger culling as many that are killed are healthy animals; if he has reviewed any updated research on vaccination programmes provided by the Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology and Risk Analysis in University College Dublin; if any new...

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 — Bovine Diseases: Bovine Diseases (6 Dec 2011) See 1 other result from this answer

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 334: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered alternative methods for the eradication of bovine tuberculosis other than the culling of badgers; if he recognises the cruel practice of badger culling; if funds will be focused on a national vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38850/11]

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

Mary White: I wish to raise this matter to find out more definitively what replacement methods are proposed for the culling of badgers with more effective and humane methods of control, as set out in the revised programme for Government. My concern is that the current method of control, a stopped-restraint, is a euphemism for an ugly snare which can have the effect of causing intense suffering to the...

Adjournment Debate Matters (19 Nov 2009)

Brendan Howlin: ..., to provide in law for the long-promised judicial sentencing commission and ensure it is established without further delay; (6) Deputy Mary Alexandra White - the methodology to replace the culling of badgers as part of the bovine TB eradication programme; (7) Deputy Chris Andrews - the planned incinerator at Poolbeg, Dublin. The matters raised by Deputies Thomas P. Broughan, Eamon...

Order of Business (14 Oct 2009)

Lucinda Creighton: ...for Government but I would refer to it as an aspirational policy document. What does the Taoiseach intend will be included in this Bill? That document sets out the prospect of a ban on the culling of badgers, the phasing out of fur hunting and a reference to ending stag hunting. We are not quite clear on the time line for this. Will it be included in the Bill which is set out in...

Written Answers — Bovine Disease Controls: Bovine Disease Controls (4 Dec 2008)

Mary White: ...Food the cost of bovine tuberculosis eradication per annum since 1997 under the general headings of administration, supplies and equipment and services, veterinary bills, reactor compensations and badger culling. [44597/08]

Written Answers — Tuberculosis Incidence: Tuberculosis Incidence (18 Nov 2008)

Jimmy Deenihan: ...of the tuberculosis programme to the State including an itemisation on the farmer compensation, livestock buy-out, veterinary administration, farm inspection, agricultural officers' expenses and badger cull; the level of TB disease reactor occurrence in Ireland, France, Italy and Germany per 100,000 animals; the number of these reactor animals here which test positive at post-mortem level...

Written Answers — Tuberculosis Incidence: Tuberculosis Incidence (29 Oct 2008)

Brendan Smith: Following peer reviewed research studies that demonstrate that the culling of infected badgers leads to a significant reduction in the incidence of TB in the cattle population, it is now recognized that the pre-eminent constraint to eradication of TB in Ireland is the existence of a significant reservoir of infection in wildlife, notably the badger. The published results of, firstly, the East...

Written Answers — Animal Diseases: Animal Diseases (11 Mar 2008) See 1 other result from this answer

Mary White: Question 358: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, in regard to the east Offaly badger research project 1988 to 1995, she will provide the number of badgers culled, the number of tuberculosis infected badgers culled, the herd numbers involved, the number of reactor cattle involved and the special veterinary measures, such as restrictions on cattle movements, taken...

Written Answers — Deer Population: Deer Population (7 Feb 2008)

John Gormley: ...out localised annual deer counts on lands such as National Parks. Where appropriate, and depending on the annual count and instances of damage caused by deer to habitats, especially woodland, culls are carried out to ensure that deer populations do not reach levels that would have negative ecological consequences. Control of deer on private property is the responsibility of the landowner...

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) See 3 other results from this answer

Paudge Connolly: Question 240: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a bounty is available to farmers for killing badgers; if there is a licence available to farmers to cull badgers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2358/05]