Written answers
Thursday, 4 December 2008
Department of Agriculture and Food
Bovine Diseases
4:00 pm
Mary White (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party)
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Question 162: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the annual herd number since 1997; the annual number of cattle tested for tuberculosis; and the number of reactors there were. [44590/08]
Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table.
| Year | No. of Herds in Country | Cattle population under test | Number of animal tests | Number of Reactors |
| 1997 | 145,209 | 7,725,634 | 9,910,074 | 28,647 |
| 1998 | 142,302 | 7,946.989 | 10,677,291 | 44,498 |
| 1999 | 138,263 | 7,569,735 | 10,749,580 | 44,903 |
| 2000 | 133,542 | 7,032,407 | 10,304,162 | 39,847 |
| 2001 | 130,525 | 7,097,430 | 9,402,196 | 33,702 |
| 2002 | 127,711 | 7,025,096 | 9,400,065 | 28,930 |
| 2003 | 125,517 | 6,936,820 | 9,168,722 | 27,978 |
| 2004 | 124,414 | 6,992,264 | 8,825,720 | 22,967 |
| 2005 | 123,322 | 6,407,456 | 9,060,044 | 25,884 |
| 2006 | 122,392 | 6,260,133 | 9,000,519 | 24,173 |
| 2007 | 120,652 | 6,084,037 | 9,143,719 | 27,711 |
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