Mr. John Condon:

The answer to that is we are in transition. I will be very brief on that. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland, FSAI, recoups the cost of local authority vets because the bulk of its work involves the inspection of abattoirs and food premises under the legislation, which is very important for Ireland's food industry and so on. That situation is about to change, with effect from the end of October, whereby the work done by local authority vets will be taken over by the Department of agriculture.