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"Mr President, this committee and its report have been an extremely good exercise. I would like to congratulate all my colleagues, particularly Mr Sturdy for initiating it, the Chairman Mrs Redondo Jiménez and the rapporteur Mr Kreissl-Dörfler.
A lot has already been said about 'to vaccinate or not to vaccinate', be it prophylactic vaccination, ring vaccination, emergency vaccination or contingency vaccination. The one thing we have agreed upon is that we are not going back down the route of prophylactic vaccination. At least that is what this report is saying, and I think that makes sense. After all, when we are talking about vaccination, we talk about cattle only, but it was the transport of sheep in the UK, Ireland, France and elsewhere that actually spread the disease the last time, and we must not lose sight of that.
I would like to concentrate on one point that concerns me greatly and that is the future availability of veterinary resources, particularly in remote regions of the European Union. There is sure to be another outbreak of an exotic disease – if not foot and mouth – with the movement of people and animals and modern travel today. How we handle it and how it is detected is absolutely critical. If we do not have the vets on the ground, particularly in remote areas where it is not viable to have veterinary practices, we have no detection system for the future. I urge the Commission to take particular interest and to evaluate the availability of veterinary resources for future disease management within the EU generally.
Identification of animals, issues of transport, insurance and many other matters came up apart from the vaccination issue. I urge sensible handling of transport and the individual identification of animals. I congratulate Joe Walsh and Brid Rogers for their great cooperation, which resulted in the worst of this outbreak being avoided in Ireland.
But, if we go down the route of identifying and tagging each individual sheep, apart altogether from a flock identification tag, and then removing it when the lamb goes to the fattener, we could be left with sheep with three or four tags, or you would be removing tags and adding others: something we are trying unsuccessfully to sort out in Ireland at the moment.
Finally, I would like to thank the Chairman for accepting our point on the protocol for the movement of non-susceptible animals and, in particular, the promise of a review of the movement of equines during future outbreaks, as horses are not susceptible in this case."@en1
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