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The new TB financial working group is due to receive a cost-benefit analysis of the programme in the coming days. \ Philip Doyle
Farm organisations are concerned that farmers will be asked to bear the brunt of the spiralling costs in the bovine TB programme.
As disease trends have deteriorated, the annual spend on controlling TB has reached almost €100m, with the State plugging gaps left by reducing EU support for the programme.
However, farm organisations stressed that farmers are carrying the costs of increasing TB reactors and restrictions at a recent meeting of the Oireachtas agriculture committee.
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