Michael Comiskey (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My comments also relate to BVD. It is worrying to see only 50% of affected animals have been taken out. How dangerous are those animals if they are left there? I know of a couple of cases where the animals have been isolated but how dangerous would they be to animals in neighbouring fields or from time to time with animals in the herd? Where the cow is not a PI, it is difficult to see how the calf can be a PI.

It is important to adapt an all-Ireland approach to all animal health issues.