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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (21 May 2013)

Andrew Doyle: 587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the allocation of Departmental spend year to date in east Wicklow on badger culling for the purposes of eradicating bovine TB in comparison to the same period in east Wicklow in 2012; and if he will provide comparative data for national spending for this purpose. [24302/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (21 May 2013)

Simon Coveney: The badger removal programme is only one element of a very comprehensive tuberculosis eradication programme but this element has contributed very significantly to the improvement in the Bovine TB situation in Ireland in recent years. This is evidenced by the fact that cattle herd incidence has fallen from 7.5% in 2000 to 4.1% in 2012 and the number of TB reactors has declined from 40,000 to...

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