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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
...Dillon. The key principles of the eradication programme are outlined in our opening statement along with the TB Forum's further strategy measures covering 2023-25. The TB Forum has for some time called for the establishment of a deer management forum and in recent months the deer management strategy group was established by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Macra is...
- 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)
Michael Fitzmaurice: ...relates to farmers who have a job because many small farms around the country are not viable. If negotiations are going well, has this been sorted? Will a farmer who is working get what I call the hardship grant, although the witnesses may have a different name for it, in September, October or November? I agree with the witnesses that Coillte and all such bodies need to come on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)
...taken to all of this. If I fence deer out of my farm, I am fencing them into someone else's farm. Fencing and reducing the population density of the deer have to go hand in hand. There have been calls for TAMS grant awards for fencing. On our farm we fenced the immediate farmyard to exclude deer and badgers and it is working 100% during the winter but in the summer they are back out...