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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)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I hope Dr. Barrett will be able to explain one thing to me which I can never understand. Many farmers have phoned me up to tell me a few animals had gone down. On the accuracy of the two stabs in the neck, when the animals go to the factory and the results come back, it is discovered that animals do not have the disease. That is causing a great deal of vexation among farmers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Dr. Barrett is saying the animals still have it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is the blood test a better test?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it taken from one animal to another?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There is a vaccine programme in respect of badgers. When the Department carried out its analysis in the various areas, did it discover if it has worked? We hear the opposite; in other words, that it has not worked. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I know. This is probably a question for Mr. O’Mahony because, in fairness, Dr. Barrett is on the veterinary side. There seems to be a horrid shortage of people for culling badgers, testing and trapping them or whatever. You hear about farmers ringing up and about their awful frustration. Is it that there is not enough of a budget for that? What is wrong?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Would the badger population not have increased?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I have heard theories. Someone said that zero grazing has a higher risk. Is that right or wrong?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: A fence around a sett.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Faeces.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Dr. Barrett made the comparison between deer and badgers. In the context what the Department has sampled, what is the percentage? Is one as bad as the other?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is high.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They are taking over the country. Mr. O’Mahony said when Senator Daly spoke that there would be harder measures and the Department will propose or talk to farming organisations. What is in the pipeline?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I see one is reducing the spread of high urea. What does restricting older breeding cattle mean? Is that older cows? What age?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is older? Is it a 17-year-old cow or a 12-year-old?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: In sucklers, for example, what age?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Correct me if I am wrong, but if there are younger animals, some of the feed lots have the right to buy and put them in. They could have animals that are clean. Dr. Barrett just said they could spread the disease. How does that operate? If I am a feed lot owner, my understanding – correct me if I am wrong – is that some cattle can be bought by feed lots that have TB.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is good to know that because there seems to be a feeling out there-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Dr. Barrett is 100% right. Will Mr. O’Mahony indicate if I am correct in saying that it was once the case that farmers whose animals went down in wintertime could not get the hardship grant? Can they get that grant now?