Written answers

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Herd Numbers

Photo of Dara CallearyDara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way his Department allowed a dual name owned flock number to be changed to a herd number (details supplied) in County Donegal without the consent of one of the registered names of the flock number. [56752/12]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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A herd number is an administrative arrangement issued by the District Veterinary Office (DVO) to a distinct herd, solely for the purposes of disease control and it does not infer ownership of lands or any animals tested under that herdnumber.

The above name was jointly registered with that of another individual to the equine number referred to in the Question. Equine numbers were withdrawn by my Department in 1995 and, in general, were replaced with dormant herd numbers in order to facilitate the payment of non-cattle headage and premia. However, in this particular instance, the equine herdnumber was not replaced by a dormant herd number. Instead, a new bovine herd number was issued on foot of a new application made in the name of one of the persons jointly registered under the equine number.

An application for a herd number in one name would not be rejected solely on the grounds that another person was registered as co-owner of the nominated land folio because, as stated already, a herd number is solely an administrative arrangement to facilitate disease control and does not infer ownership of lands or any animals tested under that herd number.

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