Agriculture Committee to discuss next step after being advised it cannot launch an inquiry
Over a 30-year period, from 1990, Mr Brennan’s cows were producing between 30 per cent and 40 per cent of the amount of milk that would be expected, he told the committee. “Our cattle were extremely stunted and used to have a high mortality rate.”
“I had never seen anything like what was there in my life. The cattle were stunted, with two-year-old cattle looking like they were six months old, except that they had very swollen, artificially large heads compared to the rest of their body.” “It is not only the cattle which have been affected as the delegation was able to clearly see the impact of toxicity on the foliage and trees in the hedgerows where shrivelled branches and dead leaves areas were quite visible, next to areas of healthy plant growth,” the report said. A subsequent proposed scientific review never went ahead and the case was returned to the Irish authorities in 2014.
However, the minister said the matter had already been the subject of thorough assessment and investigation. “There is not any proposal to reopen this matter”, he said. The August 2010 inter-agency review concluded that extensive environmental and animal investigations had found no evidence indicating environmental pollution was the cause of the problems on Mr Brennan’s farm.
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