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A LEGAL REQUIREMENT to keep poultry confined or indoors amid a bird flu outbreak is to be lifted from this Friday 29 April.
The legislation requiring the precautionary confinement of birds was introduced on 22 November to mitigate the risk of bird flu in poultry and other birds.
Three avian flu outbreaks were notified to the Department in November and December – two in Monaghan and one in Galway. In January, Dublin Zoo took flamingos and penguins indoors over bird flu fears, and Fota took in its penguins and macaw.
There’s currently a derogation in place on the ‘free range’ label for 16 weeks, meaning that after a bird, like a chicken, has been housed for 16 weeks the ‘free range’ label has to be changed to say something like ‘barn-reared’, for example.
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine said that the requirement to confine poultry and other birds was being withdrawn partly due to the fact that no case of bird flu has been confirmed in Ireland in wild birds for a period of four weeks.
Other reasons include the reduced numbers of migratory waterfowl and increasing environmental temperatures and daylight hours.
Removing the requirement to confine birds means that all poultry and bird owners may allow their birds access to open areas from this Friday.
“The birds will be allowed access back out to vegitation and they’d be free to roam back outside in the field and scratch and pick grass and other normal behaviours,” the vice-chair of the IFA’s national poultry committee Brendan Soden told Morning Ireland.
The Department is still urging flock owners to remain vigilant “as there is still the possibility of the virus being present in the environment or being transmitted to their flock by wild birds”.
Enhanced biosecurity requirements to ensure that poultry cannot come into contact with wild birds; that all areas that poultry have access to must be fenced; that they are restricted from access to permanent standing water; and restrictions on the assembly of live birds for the purposes of show or sale also remain in place (SI No 592 of 2021).
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Still the worst name for an app that I’ve heard. Hailo was a grand name.
@Mohanid Ragel: I think they got the idea for the name after reading something similar on walls in Derry.
@Mohanid Ragel: I herd that after the drivers didn’t paid the wanted to change it to “Ah Now”
@Mohanid Ragel: Wasn’t it called something else before it was Hailo?
@Mohanid Ragel:
As branding exercises go it was a spectacular screw up.
Hailo – fresh, includes reference to activity, unique, new word
To
MyTaxi – much worse, still says what it does, but you lose so much
To
Free Now – Are. You. Freaking. Kidding. Me. Possibly the worst move you could make. It’s full of ridicule, has no reference to the business, you’ve burned the goodwill you built up. Twice. Absolute disaster.
@Sequoia: When I first saw ‘Free Now’ I thought it was something to do with cable TV subscriptions – took a long time to figure out it was a taxi company (if that’s what it is).
This must be a great case study on ‘marketing disasters’ for students of marketing.
@Earth Traveller: I thought it was a ladies hygiene product.
I was in a taxi yesterday and the driver was nearly crying about the money he was owed
Happy it’s sorted
Maybe it might be a good idea to change the name to wait now!
Taxi game is fecked
‘People get their money paid early due to technical fault’ – a headline you’ll never see!
@Earth Traveller: You’ll never see it as it is unlikely that a technical fault could predict future taxi journeys to pay drivers before said journeys happened .
@Conall: Sure yesterday someone here was calling for a report of hospital figures for the year. People don’t seem to get it that you can’t have the yearly stats before the end of the year happens.
Anyway, glad the drivers had their money sorted out.
Free Now would have been a great name for a Free to air tv operation. Similar to Saorview
Why does a Private Company’s financial hiccup get 2 articles on the Journal? How is this National News…?
@Paul Casey: maybe because a lot of daxi drivers were not going to meet there bills
@Paul Casey: It’s probably not big news in Manchester.
@Paul Casey: Maybe because it was an event that happened across the nation and is interesting due to its controversial nature.
@Paul Casey: 14000 people not getting paid, should be enough of a reason.
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