Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I asked the question because we are all aware of the experience with Covid and how quickly a number of vaccines were developed when backs were to the wall. If the same level or even a percentage of that level of dedication was put into finding a solution here, we could be in a different place.

There is another point I want to tease out with Dr. Barrett a little. He mentioned how it is about getting not just the vaccination but also all the approvals that have to be secured because we export so much of what we produce and we export some of our cattle live as well. As a natural result, we would have to have international agreements around whatever is going to be happening here. Even if we had the vaccine and everything in place and we were confident it would work, we would have to have all that international approval. I assume that would probably take longer than rolling the vaccine out across the herd.