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- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Incidence (20 Feb 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm when the results from several badger vaccination trials will be released; if he will cease badger culling in the meantime in view of the fact that €3.4 million was spent on culling 6,939 badgers in 2012 and only 55 less cattle were diagnosed with Bovine TB in comparison to 2011, and in view of the fact...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Incidence (20 Feb 2014)
Simon Coveney: My Department invests in extensive research in relation to badger ecology and vaccination programmes with the intention of developing a vaccination programme, with a view to replacing badger culling with vaccination when this is a practicable proposition. In this context, my Department has been collaborating for some years with the Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology and Risk Analysis (CVERA)...