Written answers

Tuesday, 17 February 2004

Department of Agriculture and Food

Badger Numbers

10:00 pm

Photo of Trevor SargentTrevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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Question 231: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of badgers that were killed in each of the 26 counties for each of the years from 1995 through to 2003. [5097/04]

Joe Walsh (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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The following table sets out the information requested for the years 1995-2002. The figures for 2003 are not yet available.

County 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Carlow 0 108 72 116 157 114 41 142
Cavan 176 146 63 87 81 240 98 186
Clare 239 219 159 151 338 286 134 183
Cork 92 138 209 500 423 323 379 525
Donegal 36 65 171 134 165 119 68 88
Dublin 0 3 0 3 32 5 0 1
Galway 58 105 8 40 48 76 85 83
Kerry 15 34 24 7 61 170 122 162
Kildare 8 15 22 16 24 165 25 290
Kilkenny 307 439 366 261 297 243 209 233
Laois 103 306 139 139 91 135 76 191
Leitrim 30 52 55 23 173 253 229 227
Limerick 22 45 32 66 87 119 18 146
Longford 99 68 88 72 105 165 108 147
Louth 0 0 15 19 40 131 52 111
Mayo 112 65 22 31 30 173 373 424
Meath 19 0 0 10 17 11 164 412
Monaghan 132 233 141 194 249 464 212 331
Offaly 110 240 204 167 224 315 126 352
Roscommon 0 236 79 45 108 186 166 413
Sligo 84 92 56 156 124 346 219 290
Tipperary 161 230 126 114 303 351 199 306
Waterford 18 29 1 51 67 43 115 330
Westmeath 84 229 84 45 86 74 0 103
Wexford 89 21 18 17 75 98 192 181
Wicklow 17 39 17 10 128 122 148 258
Totals 2,011 3,157 2,171 2,474 3,533 4,727 3,558 6,115

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