Written answers
Tuesday, 5 October 2021
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Animal Diseases
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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773. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the prevalence of liver abscesses in cattle by county or smallest available geographic unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48115/21]
Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy is provided below. This data was captured by the AHI Beef HealthCheck programme on liver abscesses at slaughter in cattle at 17 factories participating in the programme. This would account for between 50-60% of the national kill. Data has been collected from 2016 to date and includes beef and dairy animals of all ages. Data for the 2021 year is partial to August.
| County | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CARLOW | 5.7 | 4.4 | 3.1 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 4.8 |
| CAVAN | 3.1 | 3.7 | 2.2 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| CLARE | 3.8 | 3.5 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 2.7 |
| CORK | 5.1 | 5.4 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 4.3 |
| DONEGAL | 2.2 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 1.4 |
| DUBLIN | 2.6 | 3.9 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 4.0 |
| GALWAY | 3.6 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
| KERRY | 3.9 | 3.6 | 2.4 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.3 |
| KILDARE | 4.5 | 4.0 | 2.5 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 3.8 |
| KILKENNY | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| LAOIS | 5.1 | 4.9 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 4.0 |
| LEITRIM | 2.2 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 1.9 |
| LIMERICK | 4.4 | 3.9 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.9 |
| LONGFORD | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 2.7 | 3.8 | 3.4 |
| LOUTH | 4.6 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.7 |
| MAYO | 2.1 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.3 |
| MEATH | 4.1 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 3.9 |
| MONAGHAN | 3.3 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 3.6 |
| OFFALY | 4.6 | 3.8 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 3.2 |
| ROSCOMMON | 3.5 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 2.1 |
| SLIGO | 2.7 | 2.3 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.2 |
| TIPPERARY | 4.4 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.6 |
| WATERFORD | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 4.0 |
| WESTMEATH | 3.9 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 2.6 |
| WEXFORD | 5.6 | 3.9 | 2.5 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
| WICKLOW | 5.2 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 3.9 | 4.7 | 4.4 |
| TOTAL | 4.2 | 4.1 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.8 |
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