Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is fine. We will place as much emphasis on where the problem areas are. It does not, however, mean turning our backs on an area in which disease is seeding out that we cannot ignore. There are three causes of the spread of bovine TB. The Deputy is right; one of them is wildlife. Another is cattle transmission. The last is the residual transmission left behind in the cohort that has been in close proximity to reactors and are much more likely to be infected, particularly females older than 18 months that will be calved and kept for years. When farmers are making breeding decisions, we need them to know the risk category of the ones that are there.