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:
Overall, numbers may not have changed significantly but individual herds have increased significantly, which involves intensification. There have been increased movements to facilitate the numbers increasing within herds. That has been shown to leave animals more susceptible to disease, which is why we are seeing larger numbers of reactors within the fewer herds that are positive.