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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (11 Feb 2014)

Brendan Griffin: 508. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is engaged in the practice of culling badgers; his future plans for control of the badger population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6657/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Disease Controls (11 Feb 2014)

Simon Coveney: The bovine Tuberculosis (TB) eradication programme, implemented by my Department, includes a wildlife strategy which involves the removal of badgers when an epidemiological investigation carried out by the Department’s Veterinary Inspectorate concludes that badgers are implicated in a serious outbreak of TB in cattle. This policy was introduced in light of research conducted over the...

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