Results 521-540 of 1,047,520 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Tim Lombard OR speaker:Dara Calleary OR speaker:Jennifer Murnane O'Connor OR speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice)
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: I question the conclusion about the building blocks being put in place and the prediction that there will be a lower disease level. I look at my own part of the world, that is, south Cork and south-west Cork. I argue that we are on the verge of an epidemic of TB in the next few months there. Cattle will be housed within the next few days. There are exceptionally high levels of TB 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)
Tim Lombard: The problem with that is there is no compensation for it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: I agree on the non-restricted part but still. One must send it to a certain abattoir and one knows what one is going to get. It will not be market value, and the farmer loses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: And I have been that soldier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: It is a business decision, but from a risk point of view in respect of the Department, having doubtful animals in the system is a risk. Have we looked at the policy element of having such doubtfuls? We are not talking about the financial element, because we can talk about that and argue the point in that regard. There is, though, a risk element to having doubtfuls in a system. In some...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: This calls into question the doubtfuls and whether, realistically, they should be looked at differently now when we consider where we are now with the figures regarding TB. We are looking at having a supplementary budget. If I am right, that is going to be increased by 71%, with another €40 million going into it. It is a huge amount of money.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: I agree, but it is a part of a circle.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: I would argue that many of the 70% of dairy herds are closed herds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: There could be an element of a stock cull in that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: It would be logical in the majority of our operations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: Regarding the calves, we are looking at the system of 42 days being put in place now. We can argue whether that should be extended, but this is not the point. The point is that there is no outlet for calves if you are locked up tomorrow morning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: Potentially, I could be told calves could be sent to a unit, but no unit is available.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: Are they the same kind of risk as the doubtfuls?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: Are we short of personnel?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: Turning to the high-risk herd proposal, will Dr. Barrett comment on its financial implications?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: Before I stop, I compliment the Department's staff. I said this previously. It has great men down there, and women too, actually. Those staff do a fantastic job in trying circumstances. I just wanted to put that point on the record. I call Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Nov 2024)
Tim Lombard: So the incidence rate has increased in County Clare.
- 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.