Debate contribution: TB Eradication Targets

Debate contribution by Mr Declan McAleer on 6 May 2025.

MLA: Mr Declan McAleer
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 6 May 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: TB Eradication Targets
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4929771

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Minister, you will appreciate that TB has a serious economic impact on farms and a serious emotional impact on farmers. Somewhere in the region of 20,000 cattle each year have to be culled as a result of that desperate disease. From looking at the TB plan, we are talking about it being eight or more years before we start to tackle the wildlife intervention piece. Do you understand why you might stand accused of kicking the can down the road?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 1278/22-27.

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