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Bovine TB panel—Farming Unions
Thanks. I now bring in Sam Kurtz to ask a few questions. Sam.
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Bovine TB panel—Farming Unions
Okay, thanks. And Roger.
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Bovine TB panel—Farming Unions
Okay. Thanks. And just one final question from me: do you both support trained lay testers to carry out skin and blood tests, or do you believe a vet is actually required to carry out these tests? Elin.
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Bovine TB panel—Farming Unions
Thank you, Roger. Elin.
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Bovine TB panel—Farming Unions
Okay, thanks. And do you both think that the farm-level risk scores should be used to determine testing requirements, and, if so, what could be used to indicate risk, in your view? Roger.
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Bovine TB panel—Farming Unions
Elin.
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Bovine TB panel—Farming Unions
Thank you, both, for those introductions. Perhaps I can kick off this session just with a few questions. Just a general question, first of all: do you believe that the Welsh Government's proposals to expand pre-movement and post-movement testing are…
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Bovine TB panel—Farming Unions
Thank you very much, Roger. And Elin Jenkins.
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Bovine TB panel—Farming Unions
Welcome back to this meeting of the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee. We will move on now to item 4 on our agenda. This is the second panel session to scrutinise the Welsh Government's proposals for a refreshed bovine TB eradication programme. In…
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Bovine TB panel—Academics
Thank you very much indeed, Vikki. I'm afraid we are over time, so our session has now come to an end. Can I take this opportunity to thank you for being with us this morning? It's been very useful to hear from you and it will be very useful for us…
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Bovine TB panel—Academics
Diolch, Luke. If I can now bring in Vikki Howells to just ask a few questions. Vikki.
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Bovine TB panel—Academics
Thank you Sarah. If I can now bring in Luke Fletcher. Luke.
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Bovine TB panel—Academics
Thank you, Sam. I'll now bring in Sarah Murphy to ask a few questions. Sarah.
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Bovine TB panel—Academics
Okay. Thank you very much indeed for that. If I can now bring in Sam Kurtz.
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Bovine TB panel—Academics
And Gareth Enticott.
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Bovine TB panel—Academics
And James Wood.
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Bovine TB panel—Academics
Thank you very much. In your view, are there any barriers to the increased testing proposed by the Welsh Government, such as veterinary capacity, for example? Perhaps I can start with Glyn again.
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Bovine TB panel—Academics
Thank you very much indeed. And Gareth Enticott.
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Bovine TB panel—Academics
Okay, thank you. James Wood.
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Bovine TB panel—Academics
Thank you very much indeed for those introductions, and perhaps I can just kick off with some questions, and I suppose just a general question first of all. Do you believe that the Welsh Government's proposals to expand pre-movement and post-movement testing…
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Bovine TB panel—Academics
And Gareth Enticott.
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Bovine TB panel—Academics
Thank you very much. James Wood.
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Bovine TB panel—Academics
We will therefore move on to item 3 on our agenda. This is our first panel session to scrutinise the Welsh Government's proposals for the refreshed bovine TB eradication programme. In this session, we're taking evidence from academics. May I welcome our…
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Paper(s) to note
We'll therefore move on to item 2 on our agenda, namely papers to note. You'll be pleased to hear that I'm not going to go through all of the papers, but are there any issues that Members would wish to raise on these papers? There are none.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you very much. Are there any further declarations of interest? No.
