Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 July 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Statement of Strategy 2023-2026: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

5:30 pm

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

These things are not simple. If there is a herd incidence of 5%, then 95% of herds do not have this. We really have to work hard to protect the 95% that do not have this. We have to work with people who have chronic problems to make sure they manage it better and reduce their risk and we have to help people to understand their own risk better and to understand there are measures they can take, whether it is in buying in animals or protecting their farm from wildlife, and we have to take some of those measures. I do not want to prejudice what might emerge from our reflection at the moment.

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