Mr. Dermot Murphy:

If they are applying they will have passports. The suggestion has been that the system might have been used a bit by people who are not normally associated with farming, and that was what was coming up in the stakeholder review that I mentioned earlier to Deputy McConalogue. There would be a passport, therefore.

There was also the suggestion that some animals were being brought in from England to benefit. In these cases there would not be any other livestock units on the farm and so on. That was all thrashed out in the stakeholder review that took place but there would be a requirement to have a passport and to be microchipped since 2009 under EU law and Irish law.