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Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for that. It was really needed. We spoke about TB at the meeting of the joint committee earlier. All farmers, myself included, are terrified of what is coming regarding new TB testing and what will follow on after that. One of the things I raised earlier was that even three years or three tests after a farmer's herd became clear, a description of what happened to...

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: What becomes of it?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are clear at this stage.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: My time is going. What about herds that do not buy in? Dairy farmers generally do not buy in; they rear their own. That is what they have been doing. At the same time, we are being told that they are the ones with a higher prevalence of TB breakdown than beef herds, which are buying in more often. That is caused by badgers and deer spreading the disease.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Department needs to place more emphasis on that aspect of it.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister should consider that. Deputy Aird does not buy in.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: When does the Minister expect the last ACRES payment on his books to be paid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for coming in. Of course, TB is a very serious matter. This testing has been going on for 46 years. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: We understand that other countries are now clear. Among the farmers in my neck of the woods, some are blaming deer and others are blaming badgers but, invariably, it is one or the other. It is they that started this thing going. There are some areas where deer are prevalent and other areas where badgers are prevalent. Do the witnesses agree with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry but I do not agree with that. Certainly, badgers are the carriers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: And you are entitled to yours too, of course. This is a very serious matter. The last Deputy referred to mental health and he is right, of course. It is an awful, traumatic experience for someone to have their herd taken, with no animal in the yard and everything gone down the road. It happened to people in the Glenflesk area last year. That was in October, the fall of the year, and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: What is the Department going to do? Will the TB injections be stronger? Will there be a stronger dose? Is that going to happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am referring to the way the Department detects it. Is the skin test going to be stricter or stronger? What is the plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: The witnesses mentioned the cost to the Department and the Exchequer. It is also a cost to the farmer. We contend that the farmer did not create this problem. The Department says it will be a better test. What was wrong with the testing that was done all along?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Some farmers have gone down in recent months and they are being told that if they are selling cattle in future, as far away as three years down the line, their name will appear on the screen in the mart, which will reduce the number of people who will buy from them. Is that going to happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: That would be after two clear tests. It is horrible.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are clear, but the market will be limited. They can go to the factory. Purchasers will see a farmer has a record, the same as if a person broke the law 20 years ago and wanted to get a job as a schoolteacher or something. How long will that stay on a farmer's record?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (19 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a trolley service will be provided for the Mallow-to-Tralee train service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33253/25]

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Like everyone else, I was horrified by the "Prime Time" exposé. We have great nursing homes both public and private in County Kerry. We have great staff. They are second to none and do their very best. I cannot understand why different rates are paid to public and private nursing homes. I cannot understand that. There is no better place for elderly people to age than at home. We...