Gleeson: Tough decisions ahead on TB policy reset
Brendan Gleeson, Secretary General, Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine. pictured at the ICMSA AGM 2024 which took place at the Radisson Hotel, Limerick. Picture: Don Moloney
One of the department’s most senior officials has called for a “reset” in the national bovine TB policy and an honest conversation about halting the disease’s spread, but warned that a national badger cull was off the cards.
The latest department figures show that as of October 27, 5,906 herds had suffered a TB breakdown in the previous 12 months compared to 4,914 at the same point the previous year.
