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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (10 Oct 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 186. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a badger vaccination programme announced earlier in 2018 has commenced; and his plans to end the culling of badgers which has caused an estimated 120,000 deaths to date. [41516/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (10 Oct 2018)

Michael Creed: Field trials testing the effectiveness of badger vaccination as an alternative to removal were conducted from 2014 to 2017 in areas where the wildlife program had been running in excess of 5 years and where local densities of badgers were considered low enough to be suitable candidates for vaccination with BCG. The findings confirmed that vaccination of badgers can play a role in reducing...

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