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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

...eradicate tuberculosis by 2030. If so, why not front-load the finance now and target this so that we will not need it in 2028, 2029 and 2030? The Department is doing a reasonably good job with badgers but I am hearing it needs more staff with better knowledge to track and trace the badgers and to cull or vaccinate them in certain bad areas. There is another problem with wildlife. Our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

.... Regarding the Chairman's specific question on what is the focus on wildlife in the strategy, he is right that wildlife is a key part of the solution to reduce TB. There is a major focus on badger mediated TB. Badgers have been shown to be a source of TB in cattle for many years. Much research has been carried out in the field in Ireland which has shown that. For that reason, a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

...a frequency of testing, based on their TB history. They have risk-based trading and, as has been discussed, they have no wildlife programme for whatever reason. I caught somebody saying Scottish badgers are different. We have no particular indication of that but for whatever reason, whether it be density or something else, TB is not an issue with badgers in Scotland. As far as the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

...of the other points. On Deputy Ring's question about the NPWS, I will not express an opinion on what Department it should be in but I can say that we have good co-operation. The NPWS licenses our badger activities. It is the branch of the State with responsibility for protecting wildlife and all of our activities must comply with the EU wildlife convention as it pertains to the Burren....