Pat O'Neill (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wanted to ask whether the witnesses would make a recommendation to try to eradicate the disease. With brucellosis nearly eradicated in this country, should there be compulsory testing for two years for the disease to tie-in with a brucellosis or TB herd test? Would that help in identifying the disease and eradicating it from the herds? As Mr. Graham stated, there is an incubation period of three to four years and what one needs to test are mature breeding animals, which is what we have been testing for brucellosis for years. Would the group recommend that we should move to compulsory testing of it for two or three years?