Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 571: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to extend Animal Health Ireland to include sheep, pigs and poultry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3619/10]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Animal Health Ireland (AHI) is a private company limited by guarantee and is not a public body under my control. Accordingly it is not within my sole authority to extend its remit.

AHI has just completed its first year of operation and I expect the board of AHI to further develop its scope of operation in the control of non-regulated diseases in respect of bovine animals and in other species as resources allow.