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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)

Martin Kenny: 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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)

Martin Kenny: There was a list provided of things that have been discussed and what they are. Included is voluntary or mandatory informed purchasing and voluntary or mandatory risk-based trading. Much of that is about movement of animals. In a reply to Deputy Fitzmaurice, Dr. Barrett mentioned these restricted farms, fattening units or whatever. The animals that go in there do not move or leave. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)

Johnny Mythen: I want to get my head around some stuff here. We have probably one of the best pharmaceutical industries in the world here in Ireland. We have top class scientists. We have top class laboratory technicians. The TB programme started around 1954. It is a bacteria. One can be a little bit cynical about the pharmaceutical companies. How much does a human test cost?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)

Johnny Mythen: There are 9.89 million of them per year; that is a lot. I am not a conspiracy theorist or anything but it seems to me that from 1954 to now, we could not solve it. We did all that stuff with other bacteria like chickenpox and everything else but we cannot seem to get a vaccine in that length of time. Dr. Barrett spoke about the badgers. How is that detail gathered? Is there a specific...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)

Johnny Mythen: There is no argument there. On EU funding, what is the position on that and what is planned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)

Johnny Mythen: With all due respect, how is the Department doing that because the rate is 48% higher?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)

Johnny Mythen: I ask Dr. Barrett to explain a point to me as I do not really understand it. The report states 78% of the economic benefits of the bovine TB eradication programme relate to private goods while 22% accrues to public goods. Could Dr. Barrett explain what that means?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)

Johnny Mythen: On the last one, the Department is aligning changes to the EU animal law health law with our TB regulations. How is it aligning that? What is the progress on it?

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I must now deal with a postponed division relating to Second Stage of the Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020, taken on Thursday, 24 October 2024. On the question, "That the Bill be now read a Second Time", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2) that division must be taken now.

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Question put: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Dáil divided: Tá, 57; Níl, 69; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Peadar Tóibín and Seán Canney; Níl, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin.

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Tá Chris Andrews, Ivana Bacik, Cathal Berry, John Brady, Martin Browne, Pat Buckley, Holly Cairns, Seán Canney, Matt Carthy, Sorca Clarke, Michael Collins, Catherine Connolly, Rose Conway-Walsh, Réada Cronin, Seán Crowe, Pa Daly, Paul Donnelly, Dessie Ellis, Michael Fitzmaurice, Gary Gannon, Noel Grealish, Johnny Guirke, Brendan Howlin, Alan Kelly, Gino Kenny, Martin...

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Question declared lost.

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Is féidir teacht ar Cheisteanna Scríofa ar www.oireachtas.ie. Written Answers are published on the Oireachtas website.

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 7.07 p.m. go dtí 9 a.m., Déardaoin, an 7 Samhain 2022. The Dáil adjourned at at 7.07 p.m. until 9 a.m. on Thursday, 7 November 2022.

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Ceann Comhairle as I have probably given him a couple of hairy moments throughout the five years of my first term. Please God I will be returned again. As the Minister said, it will be up to the electorate. We are all here to represent the people who elected us. All I can do is wish everyone health going forward, both those people who are to return and those who are retiring....

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you very much, Deputy, and thanks to everyone for the kind remarks.

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Title agreed to.

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Bill reported without amendment, received for final consideration and passed.