Seanad debates
Tuesday, 18 February 2003
Adjournment Matters. - Scrapie Genotyping Project.
Substantial progress has been made, therefore, in the preparations for a genotyping programme. I will consult the farming community, as I do on a regular basis, and keep farmers and other interested parties, including this House, informed of further progress in the coming weeks. I hope I will soon have progress to report. Although I come from an agricultural background, this is a matter of which I was not keenly aware and which is new to most in the Department. We hear of new diseases on a daily basis. We must undertake the necessary research before we can put in place the operations necessary to deal with them. What we have done heretofore has been successful. We have to protect the reputation of our food industry and, given that we export more than 90%, that is what is most important to all.
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