Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 December 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Eradication of TB: Discussion

Dr. John Griffin:

No. Going back to regionalisation, the country has been divided into different regions. I think there are about five of them. Where TB levels are very low, what the Senator is saying is probably correct. In the areas where the incidence of TB is high, though, or where there are many possums, for example, there would be TB testing every year or even more frequently than that. This is an example of a regional approach. The testing in New Zealand is done depending on the level of TB and the level of possum infection.