Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to add another question before we go back to the officials. It was said earlier that 20% of reactors are left behind with the skin test. I was surprised with that figure but I am not doubting its accuracy. Do the officials have the figures for how many false positives are taken out with the skin test and how many false positives are taken out with the blood test? Where there is a severe breakout the Department comes in with a blood test. A farmer was on to me lately who lost 61 animals in the skin test. The Department came in then with the blood tests. He very much feared that. It was spring and his cows were calving down. It was a huge financial loss to him to go through the blood test process. The view of farmers out there on the ground is that the blood test is taking more false positives than the skin test. Has the Department figures for how many false positives are taken on the skin tests and how many false positives are taken on the blood tests?