Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

5:30 pm

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I thank the witnesses for coming in. I have a couple of quick questions. I raised an eyebrow at the suggestion that the Gates foundation would be more into disease in humans. My understanding is that the foundation is buying up a great deal of land in America and leaving it idle. It is not a fan of cattle, in my understanding.

On the research, and I have looked into this a bit, it is a long way off. One vaccine was produced but it was not possible to distinguish between a positive and a negative. They are trying to perfect that. People are not living in a sort of Funderland - realistically, it is a while off. Would that be fair to say?