Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

TB Eradication Programme: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Danny Healy-RaeDanny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

And you are entitled to yours too, of course. This is a very serious matter. The last Deputy referred to mental health and he is right, of course. It is an awful, traumatic experience for someone to have their herd taken, with no animal in the yard and everything gone down the road. It happened to people in the Glenflesk area last year. That was in October, the fall of the year, and the compensation they got in no way could have replaced the number of cows they had. They had to accept that they could only buy a lesser number because cows and all kinds of stock had increased in price. Subsequently, they were not compensated properly. Do the witnesses accept that?

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