Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am unsure what figures Deputy Deering is referring to, but addressing TB and brucellosis has been a real success story in the Department, so much so that my British counterpart, the UK Secretary of State, Owen Paterson, spent one and a half days examining our TB programme because the British want to learn from it. The UK is going in the opposite direction and that is a problem for us because of Northern Ireland. Deputy Deering is clearly referring to a figure.