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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: How do the 2003 numbers compare with those of 2019?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: I thank Ms McPhiilips and her team for coming before us today. This is the beginning of a conversation we will be having over the next number of weeks and I am sure she will update us with any information on the export issue in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: World Heritage Sites (21 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: 62. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the new call for applications for sites of built and natural heritage here to be placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List; the way in which persons and organisations including those in counties Carlow and Kilkenny can apply for new candidate sites to join Ireland’s World Heritage Tentative List; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Registration of Births (21 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: 67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when applications by persons (details supplied) will be processed. [8867/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: Schedule A is COM (2019) 48, proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No. 508/2014 as regards certain rules relating to the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund by reason of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union, and COM (2019) 49, proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: I welcome Professor Simon More here for the first session today. He is the director at the UCD centre for veterinary epidemiology and risk analysis. Before we begin, I draw the attention of Professor More to the fact that witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they give to the committee. However, if they are directed by the committee to cease giving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: I thank Professor More for a very informative presentation. Deputy Cahill will speak first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: We will want barristers too.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: How did that affect farm sustainability from a commercial point of view?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: I would appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: I thank Professor More for that. Are there any more questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: On that point, if one looks at the map of the country one will see that a number of black spots, in Wicklow in particular, are quite close to areas of forestry-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: The point I am making is that forests provide a lot of cover for wildlife, including deer and badgers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: Deputy McConalogue is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: In Professor More's opinion, is Ireland being TB free by 2030 achievable or pie in the sky?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: Deputy Penrose might have been right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: I thank Professor More for his presentation, which was interesting and informative. This is a discussion that we will probably have again. As he knows, we discussed this matter before Christmas, and some of his colleagues will address us shortly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: We would appreciate that when Professor More gets an opportunity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: From Veterinary Ireland, I welcome Mr. Finbarr Murphy, chief executive, Mr. Conor Geraghty, food animal representative and vice president, Mr. Donal Lynch from its food animal group and a past president, and Mr. Gerry Neary, also from its food animal group and a past president. I thank them for attending to discuss issues concerning bovine TB. Before we begin, I bring to the attention of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Deering: I acknowledge the contribution the witnesses make to the local rural economy from an agricultural point of view. I have a follow-on question based on what Deputy McConalogue said about the call for vets to become part of the Border surveillance system in the event of Brexit. What are the implications of Brexit from a TB testing point of view? Vets are contracted to do TB testing for...