Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Agricultural Schemes, Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis and Compensation: Discussion

Dr. June Fanning:

The final few hurdles are the hardest to get over, especially with a disease like TB. The end of the eradication piece is hard to achieve. I will come back to the point that all the stakeholders involved have done a great job to keep rates as low as they have been, considering the expansion that has happened in the national herd. The Senator asked about changes to the testing regime.