Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
5:30 pm
Dr. Damien Barrett:
To be clear on this, we are talking about high-risk herds plus high-risk animals within high-risk herds. Without breaking confidences, this revolves around animals that are cohorts of reactors. These are the high-risk animals. In effect, they are cows. If the cows are the high-risk animals, the calves would not be considered as high risk. We could see a scenario where there are controls on the movement of cows out of herds but not controls on the movement of calves.
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