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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
...and our submission is on the record. There are a couple of things I want to highlight on that. The main one, as the committee has heard from everyone before, is the wildlife problem. The badgers are obviously a problem and it is under-resourced. As late as yesterday I was talking to people with TB in their herd in the southern part of the country. They were saying they had no...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
...feed or housing to hold those animals. Amendments to the TB programme dating back 15 or more years 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...
- 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)
Michael Fitzmaurice: ...scientist and I do not know anything about it but it has to incubate and that is why it needs a certain number of days. Is that correct or not? Maybe I am reading it wrong. They are vaccinating badgers. We must be careful too what we say because it is about when the badger gets it in one place and he is pegged out of the den and brings it off down the road to give to other cattle. We...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Tim Lombard: ...calves, bull calves in particular, has its own issues. One can manage but it comes at a cost to oneself and one's family. These are issues for us. I do not believe the programme should be called the national eradication programme. There is a fundamental view that we will never actually beat this disease. We have been fighting TB since my father's time and well before it. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Mr. Tomás Bourke: I will pick up here. Senator Lombard mentioned the live valuation and agreed that there is a blind spot in the actual live valuation scheme for what we would call mid-production animals, third-fourth lactation, suckler or dairy cows because they are not offered for sale on the open market. Any of them that are offered for sale are offered for a reason and the market...