Animal disease research funding
The Department spent about £260,000 on direct animal disease research in 1983, with 75 staff at the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, about a quarter of whose time was research.
asked the Minister for Agriculture the amount of money being spent on research in his Department on the cause of diseases in animals; and the number of people employed on this work.
Comment on this
The amount being spent by my Department in 1983 on direct research into the causes of diseases in animals is in the region of £260,000. The number of people employed at the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Abbotstown, where all of the work is undertaken, is 75. For about a quarter of their time they are engaged on research, the remainder being devoted to diagnostic and investigative work.