Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

TB Eradication Programme: Discussion

2:00 am

Dr. Damien Barrett:

That is a broad question. We are capturing in the past few years about 14,000 badgers annually for a combination of culling and vaccination. Last year we culled over 7,000 and the remainder were vaccinated. Quite a body of research has gone into the efficacy of vaccination. A non-inferiority trial was published in about 2018 or 2020. I cannot remember but it showed vaccination is no worse than culling in terms of dealing with TB instances.

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