207. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 327 of 8 October 2020, the efforts made by his Department to develop and validate new and improved TB tests; the potential variation in test results due to human error in reading skin test results; the measures taken by his Department to ensure consistency across the veterinary surgeons reading such skin test results; the rotation of such personnel and monitoring of the positivity rate by individual veterinary surgeons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32234/20]

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207. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 327 of 8 October 2020, the efforts made by his Department to develop and validate new and improved TB tests; the potential variation in test results due to human error in reading skin test results; the measures taken by his Department to ensure consistency across the veterinary surgeons reading such skin test results; the rotation of such personnel and monitoring of the positivity rate by individual veterinary surgeons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32234/20]

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1. 22 October 2020

   Tuberculosis Eradication Programme

   207. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 327 of 8 October 2020, the efforts made by his Department to develop and validate new and improved TB tests; the potential variation in test results due to human error in reading skin test results; the measures taken by his Department to ensure consistency across the veterinary surgeons reading such skin test results; the rotation of such personnel and monitoring of the positivity rate by individual veterinary surgeons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32234/20]

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