505 Deputy Jimmy Deenihan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the overall cost of the tuberculosis programme to the State including an itemisation on the farmer compensation, livestock buy-out, veterinary administration, farm inspection, agricultural officers’ expenses and badger cull; the level of TB disease reactor occurrence in Ireland, France, Italy and Germany per 100,000 animals; the number of these reactor animals here which test positive at post-mortem level for TB; the benefits of testing the national herd for TB in view of the fact that the produce is deemed safe to enter the food chain in any account; the savings to the Exchequer and for the national herd if Ireland moved to a three-yearly programme instead of the current annual programme in view of the fact that other European countries only test their national herds on a three-year basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40994/08]

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505 Deputy Jimmy Deenihan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the overall cost of the tuberculosis programme to the State including an itemisation on the farmer compensation, livestock buy-out, veterinary administration, farm inspection, agricultural officers’ expenses and badger cull; the level of TB disease reactor occurrence in Ireland, France, Italy and Germany per 100,000 animals; the number of these reactor animals here which test positive at post-mortem level for TB; the benefits of testing the national herd for TB in view of the fact that the produce is deemed safe to enter the food chain in any account; the savings to the Exchequer and for the national herd if Ireland moved to a three-yearly programme instead of the current annual programme in view of the fact that other European countries only test their national herds on a three-year basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40994/08]

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