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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...total spend on vaccination in County Wicklow over the ten year period, it would not be possible to accurately provide a county specific expenditure report due to the structure in place around the badger vaccination programme, the travel expenses, consumables and contractor costs can not be limited to Wicklow only. I do want to reiterate that my Department is fully committed to the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Wildlife Protection (7 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Butler: I thank Senator Boylan for raising this really important issue. I am responding on behalf of the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Noonan. It is not an area in which I have huge expertise but I come from a rural area and am well equipped to know what wildlife crime means. It is a widespread issue that poses a serious threat to our...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...to take Questions Nos. 425 to 428, inclusive, together. The table below provides the TB Reactor numbers requested on a national level for the past 10 years. Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a challenging disease to control and eradicate. I am acutely aware of the financial and emotional trauma associated with a TB breakdown. It causes significant hardship for farmers and farming families,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Bovine tuberculosis (TB), caused by infection with Mycobacterium bovis, is a persistent problem in cattle herds in Ireland. The epidemiology of TB is complex and challenging. There are three main sources of infection for cattle - the purchase of infected cattle, the presence of residual (undetected) infection within cattle herds and from wildlife (badgers predominately). The relative...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a challenging disease to control and eradicate. I am acutely aware of the financial and emotional trauma associated with a TB breakdown. It causes significant hardship for farmers and farming families, and I am fully committed to the objectives of the Bovine TB Eradication Strategy which aims to reduce and ultimately eradicate this disease in Ireland. This battle...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of TB: Discussion (13 Dec 2023) See 9 other results from this debate

...enables Irish farmers to access the EU Single Market for our cattle, including calves, meat and milk. It is also a requirement for access to third country markets, where our exports have substantially grown in value and volume in the past ten years. It is noticeable that in several cases, TB is a significant consideration in the context of trade and certification requirements. A...

Science Week: Statements (16 Nov 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: .... It is also important that we are open about and engaged with that. As I do on an annual basis - and I am sorry to have to do it again - I must make the case for our working scientists, especially medical scientists. They are still waiting for pay parity. The Minister of State will remember that these people went on strike in May 2022. On the back of that, there was an independent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Mr. Niall ? Donnch?: I will start with the Conor Pass and work my way back, if that is okay. Areas of high nature value come on the market quite often. We are always interested in areas of high nature value but we do not do our negotiating in public, no more than we negotiated the purchase of Brú na Bóinne. Suffice to say, we are well aware of the Conor Pass and its nature...

Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Ms Sue Windle: In short, the answer to that is the individual working for the Department. I have been fortunate enough to work with some incredible individuals in all Departments but I have also worked with people about whom I would not say that. The frustrating part for staff in Doras is the effort it takes to get the right hand to speak to the left hand, particularly when the issue is so...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Protection (7 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a challenging disease to control and eradicate. I am acutely aware of the financial and emotional trauma associated with a TB breakdown. It causes significant hardship for farmers and farming families, and I am fully committed to the objectives of the Bovine TB Eradication Strategy which aims to reduce and ultimately eradicate this disease in Ireland. This...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Protection (7 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a challenging disease to control and eradicate. I am acutely aware of the financial and emotional trauma associated with a TB breakdown. It causes significant hardship for farmers and farming families, and I am fully committed to the objectives of the Bovine TB Eradication Strategy which aims to reduce and ultimately eradicate this disease in Ireland. This...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (11 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Charlie McConalogue: I would like to clarify that my Department does not use snares for the capture of badgers. All badgers captured are caught using a stopped body restraint. Badgers that are dispatched, are done so in a humane manner, either by the use of a licensed firearm or by the administration of IV barbiturates by a Veterinary Inspector. DAFM does not record if a badger is alive or dead in a restraint in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (13 Jul 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a challenging disease to control and eradicate. I am acutely aware of the financial and emotional trauma associated with a TB breakdown. It causes significant hardship for farmers and farming families, and I am fully committed to the objectives of the Bovine TB Eradication Strategy which aims to reduce and ultimately eradicate this disease in Ireland. This battle...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: "In bed" is a metaphor. We have not got a bed here. If we had, the Government would be asleep in it all day and would not get up to see the farmers. The farmers get up early in the morning and get up late at night to tend to their animals when they are young, sick or being attacked by marauding gangs of foxes and deer. We cannot have a cull of the deer population which is running riot...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (31 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: For the purpose of clarity, all badgers captured are caught using a stopped body restraint. My Department does not deploy snares. Badgers that are culled, are done so in a humane manner, either by the use of a licensed firearm or by the administration of barbiturates by a Departmental Veterinary Inspector. All badger carcasses are sent to either a contracted private or my Department's...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...the Liffey in my case but the Dodder greenway and to develop that in a way that protects what is an incredible natural asset. We have salmon running up the Dodder. We have otters, kingfishers, badgers and herons - incredibly rich biodiversity in an urban setting. We need to protect that. The real risk to that, I would argue, and I am sure Deputy Bacik would agree, is some of the...

Protection of Hares Bill 2023: First Stage (25 May 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...to be introducing the Protection of Hares Bill. I am proud for the seven-year-old me and I know my dad would also be proud. I find it bizarre, frustrating and unbelievable that this practice is still allowed 40 years later and is still facilitated by Government when the majority of other countries have banned it because they recognise how awful and unacceptable it is. No civilised...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (25 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: I propose to take Questions Nos. 231 and 232 together. Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a challenging disease to control and eradicate. I am acutely aware of the financial and emotional trauma associated with a TB breakdown. It causes significant hardship for farmers and farming families, and I am fully committed to the objectives of the Bovine TB Eradication Strategy which aims to reduce and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Programmes (23 May 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: All badgers that are vaccinated and microchipped by my Department as part of the Wildlife programme are recorded on a piece of dedicated software. Whilst this piece of software has GIS capabilities, the geographical data is limited to the GPS co-ordinates of all main badger setts and sub setts that have been identified as part of the Wildlife programme.