Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 December 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Ireland's TB Eradication Programme: Discussion

3:30 pm

Mr. Michael Sheahan:

There are some difficult decisions to be made about risk-based trading and so on. The prize is that if we eradicate TB by 2030 or sooner, there will be a huge cost saving for farmers who are carrying the bulk of the burden and the taxpayer who is carrying the rest. That is the reason we are so keen to try to reach a consensus, even to make some of the difficult decisions in the short term, but the prize is huge and achievable.

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