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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

...from the spread of bovine tuberculosis. It is worth noting also the role wildlife has to play and the further research and development that is needed, in respect of both the interaction of the badger population and improved knowledge and research of the relationship deer have to play in the transmission of the disease at farm level. Over recent years, the roll-out of the vaccination...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

...unacceptable that more measures are being proposed to focus on cattle unless we have a comprehensive programme to deal with the undoubted wildlife elements of the TB spread. We have seen that badger culling has been a necessary part of making progress, but there is a need to ensure that the badger vaccination programme is used to improve data collection on badger infection rates. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: All four organisations raised the issue of wildlife. A programme is in place for badgers. Vaccination in that regard is being upped in tempo. They all mentioned deer in particular. Do they have proposals for how the Department should tackle the issue of deer? What can be done? Should there be a severe culling or a vaccination programme, for example? I took from all our guests'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

...echo what Mr. Maher said. Within the forum, once it is established, a number of key priorities should be focused on. Currently, most of the resources for dealing with wildlife go to dealing with badgers. We cannot have a situation where resources are then taken from badgers; it has to be an extra resource that goes in. It involves simple things. Mr. Keane mentioned this earlier, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

...rather than just spending €2 million on it every year. Research should come to a conclusion and there should be results, but there is definitely a need to allocate more resources to the wildlife programme and the culling of deer. For three or four years, we have listened to the Department wash its hands of the deer problem by stating people can get a licence to shoot deer if they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

...provided that trade from restricted farms to controlled finishing units, or feedlots as they were called then, was facilitated. Any farmer who is restricted because of TB in his herd, who has culled cows and who has store cattle and weanlings that he must sell but for which he does not have the feed or the housing can sell them into a controlled finishing unit. Those are not unique to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

...on testing and what the Exchequer is taking back out of it. We are looking to put extra funding into that and front-load the testing or maybe do PCR testing. There are so many aspects, including deer, badgers, inconclusive results, and testing, that need to be pulled together. There is not just one thing. Everything that can be done by farmers inside a farm gate has been thrown at us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...ago. We did succeed in the warble fly eradication and with brucellosis. Other countries have practically got rid of TB and what is happening here is worrying. It is very clear that the deer and badgers are causing the problem. The deer have moved into farms. Before they were in the national park and up on the top of the mountains but they are practically inside our village now. Many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Tim Lombard: ...' views regarding it and where they believe we need to be going forward. The wildlife issue has been declared and spoken about on a continuous basis. There is an issue about how to deal with badgers and deer, and how the Department can work with urban society to deal with those issues. That is an issue for us. The Department pulled out of the vaccination programme in certain areas...