Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
3:05 pm
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Yes.
The BSE testing programme is again a positive story. BSE is an historical problem in Ireland but we still maintain the most rigorous testing programme in the world. I can tell export markets that, despite the fact it is no longer in our herd, we still test to ensure that is the case. There will be a slight reduction next year in the allocation from €2.2 million down to €1.7 million.