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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: 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)

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?

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?

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 provided if the whole herd goes.

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: Okay. I thank Mr. O'Mahony for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Future-proofing to Improve Life and Longevity for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)

Dessie Ellis: I thank Professor McCarron and everyone else for attending. It was interesting to hear we have the strongest data in the world, which we do not normally hear, especially when it comes to people with intellectual disabilities and people who are ageing. That is very informative. Professor McCarron mentioned future-proofing to improve life and longevity for people with intellectual...