Results 21-40 of 130 for speaker:Natasha Newsome Drennan
- Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025) Natasha Newsome Drennan: One of my constituents got paid only last week. That is nine months.
- Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025) Natasha Newsome Drennan: We need to see more money in that pot. We need to be assured of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: I am sorry I was late for the start of the meeting. Wildlife testing cost €9 million last year. Was that for deer and badgers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: Altogether? Just badgers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: That cost €9 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: There were 14,000 captured in the past couple of years since the beginning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: Seven thousand of those were culled, so that is 50%. Did every one of those test positive for TB?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: Just in case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: Of the 7,000 that were culled, how many tested positive for TB?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: Does Dr. Barrett have a rough idea of the average? Was it half of them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: We have all had our TB tests. If we were to vaccinate cattle, what would be the human risk? What is the risk to us if we are eating that beef?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: At all?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: Dr. Barrett said that other countries would not take it. It has been asked already, but what is the likelihood of us vaccinating cattle? The other animals we are discussing are wild and it is very hard to contain them, but our cattle are in pens and sheds. They are not wild animals, as such. Vaccinating them would be the easier thing to do. Why are we not pushing that more?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: It is the simpler thing to do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: Each animal is just vaccinated once. A cow would be there-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: Have the witnesses spoken to representatives from other countries that have the same issue and who are thinking along the same lines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: Regarding the delay with the money, I have had farmers from north Kilkenny whose herds have come down with TB. It is devastating for the whole family. We have high suicide rates among farmers as well. Even when farmers are getting their animals tested, they are waiting for the next few days and hoping to God it will not be them. It is a massive worry for people. When cattle come down...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: When the farmer gives the Department the figure, how quickly is there payment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Natasha Newsome Drennan: Why were they culled? What was the story there?