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

Mr. Hugh Farrell: I will respond to Deputy Carthy's questions on the badger vaccination. It is something we brought up on numerous occasions at the TB Forum. It was not mentioned here but I want to make it known that we brought it up at an earlier stage in the TB programme. We questioned the number of counties that were being done and the way it was being extended throughout the country....

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

...is fixed, he will have a serious problem altogether. Obviously this is if people have an off-farm income, and in some cases people do. From a deer perspective, there is a management group. On the badger culling, speaking from experience, it is necessary to follow up. A farmer is responsible for his or her farm and following up is very important. On the vaccinations for TB, obviously we...

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

Michael Ring: ...Parks and Wildlife Service and all the other State bodies are wonderful at telling the delegates' organisations what to do and how to do it, but they are not as good themselves when it comes to culling. The biggest problem I raised in the Dáil earlier in the year was that of deer on the main roads in Ballinrobe and other such areas in south Mayo. They are on the road at this time of...

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

...for the questions. I will deal only with the deer issue. There has been a sea change in the Department's view on deer. It is a result of science, which is fantastic. There was an organised cull of deer in Wicklow. Initially, 100 deer were culled and then another 50. They were tested and 17% percent of them showed up with TB. Tests showed the exact same strain that is in the bovine...

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

...problem, but this is very much area specific. Everything that can be done with deer should be done. Public safety should be paramount here. It seems it is coming secondary at the moment. Badgers are most certainly a problem and we cannot take our eye off the ball. In most other areas of the country badgers are very much an issue. The vaccination programme and the management of...

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

...of which are bred on the farm, and a couple of generations being loaded into a lorry to go off. We then look around and see that nothing is being done about the wildlife population. If the words "culling" and "deer" are put in the same sentence, a certain percentage of the population will rise up to ring Joe Duffy and everybody else they can ring bout the poor Bambi. Bambi is what...

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

Jackie Cahill: ...the five organisations had to say. It was good to hear that people have confidence in the forum with regard to the contribution wildlife is making to the spread of TB. I remember when the initial badger experiment was done in Offaly. There was considerable resistance in getting that experiment going at the time. TB was reduced to approximately 20% to 25% nationwide when there was...

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

.... A significant number of hours are required, which is a hidden cost to the restricted herd owner that gives rise to a consequential loss that is never mentioned or acknowledged by anybody. The badger vaccination programme is going on in many areas and it must be welcomed, as must anything that will control the spread of TB. It is important to note that the badgers that are captured...