Johnny Mythen (Wexford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There are 9.89 million of them per year; that is a lot. I am not a conspiracy theorist or anything but it seems to me that from 1954 to now, we could not solve it. We did all that stuff with other bacteria like chickenpox and everything else but we cannot seem to get a vaccine in that length of time.

Dr. Barrett spoke about the badgers. How is that detail gathered? Is there a specific programme from gathering the detail of the badgers such as where they are exactly, how many have been done and so forth?

The cost of the bovine TB eradication programme was €57 million in 2023 and it is €74 million at the end of October and the projection is that it will go even higher. It is worrying that the funding has been ceased by the European Union. Is there a plan in place to fill that gap or who fills the gap?