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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 will ask just one more question because the Vice Chair is jumping. A few farmers have been on to me in the last few weeks. There is the assessment done on a dairy cow where the amount of milk she had is looked at to do the valuation and all that, but on the EBI something has changed over the last few weeks so there is between €50 and €80 less being got for the same cow than...

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: Am I correct in saying the price is less? I am hearing from farmers that between €50 and €80 less is being got for the same animal.

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: Why has it changed in the last few weeks or months? This is all I am asking because this is-----

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: And is the Department going back and looking at that?

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: Does Mr. O'Mahony expect the €50 or €70 will be brought back up?

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 thank the witnesses for their opening statement and the discussion in respect of the situation with TB eradication. It is something farmers across the country have had a somewhat jaundiced view of, in some cases. A lot of money has been spent on it and it is not really delivering. We can all say that pretty truthfully. We had the Minister in here yesterday and I raised this with him in...

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: Dr. Barrett is saying the calf is not born with TB.

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: Through ingestion afterwards, okay.

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: It would be pretty quick, therefore, if we had it in place.

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)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I wish to mention a few more scenarios to our guests. I have seen the following happen in the west. Let us say a contract rearer takes in calves that will be kept as weanlings for the first year and later returned if they are dairy stock. The contract rearer is caught in the middle of an awful situation. How can that be resolved? Let us say I take in calves, rear them, bring them on and...

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 am trying to fathom the following. If the animals are tested for TB coming in and the farmer's animals had tested clear down through the years, what would be the cause of TB the following year? There are people who never had TB on their lands but, all of a sudden, even if animals were tested coming in as sucklers, next thing there is a TB outbreak. Perhaps I picked up wrong what Dr....

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: Please tell me what that is.

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: Unfortunately, some farmers have had a test but then more of their animals went down with TB so they had to get rid of the whole herd. Why must farmers in that situation wait four months before they-----

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: Does the Department reckon that a lot of the bacteria will be gone by that stage?

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: My next question is for Mr. O'Mahony. Farmers feel like they have to go through a lot of hoops to get their money. A lot of these farmers are in a tough financial situation. How efficient is the Department's system at ensuring farmers are paid?

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 one more question.

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: If a farmer has to clear their herd and get rid of it and they then do nothing for the four or six months, is there any money there for them for those six months? They cannot live on fresh air.

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 this just the thing for a person who is working or not working?