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Farm safety and livestock accidents

Summary

Senator Murphy O'Mahony called for greater focus on livestock-related farm accidents and asked for stronger farm safety education and ministerial engagement.

I wish to raise farm safety. When we think about farm safety, we usually think of machinery or slurry pits, but now that the calving season is well under way, I want to talk about accidents with livestock. More than a quarter of fatal accidents on farms and just less than a quarter of non-fatal accidents are to do with livestock. I would like the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae, to come before us to lay out his plans going forward on farm safety. It could perhaps be made a bigger segment of training in the agricultural colleges. It could also be part of transition year studies. Many lives could be saved if the issue was highlighted.

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