Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 1212: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her Department will assist a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in removing an animal from their CMMS herd profile, in view of the fact that they sold the animal in 1999 and no longer have the records for it. [29762/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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A record in respect of this animal appears on the herd profile of the person named on the Cattle Movement Monitoring System (CMMS). The records in my Department indicate that the animal in question was registered on 7 August 2001 as the dam of a female calf born in the named person's herd on 29 June 2001. However there is no record on the CMMS database that this animal ever moved from the holding of the person named.

As the animal was not presented for testing as part of his 2006 annual TB herd test, a letter issued from the local District Veterinary Office asking the person to account for the non-presentation of the animal for the TB test. He contacted that office subsequently indicating that the animal was sold to a factory in 1999 but did not provide any supporting documentation in relation to the movement to the factory. In addition, this movement could not be recorded on the CMMS due to the existence of the record in respect of the animal relating to a birth in 2001.

In the circumstances, I will arrange for an officer from the District Veterinary Office to contact the person named to examine the position further.