The Department of Agriculture is not ruling out a badger cull in Northern Ireland to help control the spread of tuberculosis amongst cattle herds.



Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill is under growing pressure from farmers and her committee to consider a cull.



She said her department is carefully monitoring what is happening in England and the development of a vaccine.



The TB issue has come to a head because of a plan by DARD to reduce compensation for infected cattle.



The Ulster Farmers Union (UFU) has accused the department of focusing on reducing costs while failing to produce a strategic plan to eradicate the disease.



The UFU said every year thousands of cattle are infected with TB and then slaughtered, only for restocked herds to be infected once again by badgers carrying the disease.



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