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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) ...It has been eradicated elsewhere in the world, such as Australia, for example, but they were able to deal with the wildlife host or species that was involved in a different way than we can with the badger. The badger is a protected species. While we cull badgers as part of the TB eradication programme, we recognise that it is not a sustainable solution long-term. That is why we have...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: On culling versus vaccination, I have all sorts of reasons why I do not like badger culling from my own political background. I also understood it to be fantastically expensive per badger culled, however. Are we phasing that out as a practice entirely? Are we moving towards vaccination? Where does the balance lay currently? What is the current state of play?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Dr. June Fanning: The balance currently, if we take 2022, for example, is that just over 12,000 badgers were involved in the wildlife programme. Just over 7,000 of them would have been vaccinated and 5,000 would have been culled. That is a serious shift from what we would have had at the start in 2019 when we rolled out vaccination. It would have been less than 2,000 and we still would...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Verona Murphy: The reason I am asking is that I have never, and I am half a century old, seen as many badgers dead on the roadside as I travel the roads. I do quite a bit of travelling but I am actually quite concerned. The reason is that hitting a badger is like hitting a cement block. It can cause extensive damage and probably a very serious accident. Other animals that do that kind of damage are...