Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I can only report what I heard. Is there a mechanism or some form of international experience the witnesses can point to whereby a deer population has been successfully managed through state agencies in conjunction, I presume, with game clubs and others that would need to be involved?

Is there are view that we can reach a point where TB can be eradicated? Obviously, we hope that there will at some stage be a vaccine that we can give to cattle. If money was not an object and if the State had as much money as was required and was willing to implement the type of measures that have been outlined, is there a view on the part of the witnesses that we could bring the 4% figure down to zero?