Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

4:45 pm

Photo of Martin HeydonMartin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My question is on tuberculosis testing. The projected outturn or target is 8.4 million tests, while 8.5 million tests were carried out last year. How do we get rid of TB and, by extension, TB testing? We have made good progress in recent years, but surely the more progress we make the harder it is to get rid of the last of it. Is it realistic to suggest that we can eradicate TB when we consider the problems we have in the wild outside of our control stock?

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