Under the AIE to request:
1) Minutes of any Meeting of the Bovine TB Stakeholder Forum in 2024 since Meeting 20 (22 May 2024), together with copies of any presentations circulated at these meetings, and any data/reports provided to farming organisations after the meetings
2) Bovine TB Stakeholder Forum – Meeting 20, Date: 22 May 2024
a) DAFM Presentation circulated (Disease Trends Update)
b) Research Update presentation circulated
c) Simon More, UCD critique of the TB eradication programme presentation circulated
d) DAFM data provided to farming organisation in response to request for statistics in respect of animals where PCR test carried out
e) DAFM data provided to farming organisation request analysis of C10 herds who are now in a
breakdow
3) Bovine TB Stakeholder Forum – Meeting 19, Date: 27 February 2024
a) Minister’s response to the letter from the IWG Chairman on the Wildlife Programme
b) Summary document of the work of the TB Forum and IWG to date
c) Department provided an update on wildlife figures in terms of vaccination, culling and staffing
d) DAFM presentation – Disease Trends Update The Department presented TB Disease Trends 2022-2024 which examined the increase in rolling totals of TB reactors and restricted herds
e) ESRI behavioural report findings on Bovine TB
f) Simon More presented preliminary results on a study “Is badger vaccination, in combination with existing cattle-based controls sufficient to eradicate bTB from Ireland?”
4) Minutes of any Meeting of the Finance Working Group – since Meeting 16, 24th February 2023 together with copies of any presentations circulated at these meetings, and any data/reports provided to farming organisations after the meetings
5) Minutes of the Bovine TB Stakeholder Forum’s Implementation Working Group (IWG) – since Meeting 39, 03 September 2024, together with copies of any presentations circulated at these meetings, and any data/reports provided to farming organisations after the meetings
a) DAFM update on disease situation by county
b) DAFM data analysis on movement of animals between herds
6) Bovine TB Stakeholder Forum’s Implementation Working Group (IWG) – Meeting 38, 02 July 2024
a) DAFM records on minority herds who do not carry out TB tests and are trade restricted (cannot sell on the open market). It is unclear from minutes if this data was made available to farming organisations and/or IWG members, so please consider this request for the records regardless of whether provided or not, in summary format as aggregated by DAFM for reporting purposes
For context on above please see
https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/d3baf-tb-forum
https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/217aa-finance-working-group
