Ms Amanda Mooney:

On deer fencing, a co-ordinated approach needs to be taken to all of this. If I fence deer out of my farm, I am fencing them into someone else's farm. Fencing and reducing the population density of the deer have to go hand in hand. There have been calls for TAMS grant awards for fencing. On our farm we fenced the immediate farmyard to exclude deer and badgers and it is working 100% during the winter but in the summer they are back out grazing the field. There needs to be a co-ordinated approach. I am positive that we will get that in the deer management group.