Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

On section 11, page 119 of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013, where we come from deer and badgers are spreading tuberculosis, TB. It seems to me that they have more rights than the people or the farmers or the people travelling the roads. When a farmer’s herd or several animals go down, it takes three weeks before they are taken off the farm. It is causing undue stress and hardship for small farmers to maintain these animals away from the rest of the herd. Will the Taoiseach ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to deal with this very urgent and serious problem? It is causing the further spread of TB, it is hurting the eradication of this very costly disease and it is causing much stress to many farmers.

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