Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 20 May 2020
882. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of bovines that passed an on-farm tuberculosis skin test but on inspection subsequent to slaughter killed out with lesions in the year of their final tuberculosis test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6178/20]
View answerThe following table shows the number of bovines that passed a TB skin test and which were subsequently sent for routine slaughter at which they were found to have lesions which were confirmed to be bovine TB following laboratory analysis, in the years 2015 to 2019:
|
Year |
Animals with clear TB skin test with subsequent TB lesions |
|
2019 |
1,654 |
|
2018 |
1,612 |
|
2017 |
1,552 |
|
2016 |
1,311 |
|
2015 |
1,550 |
