Mr. Brian Kavanagh:

As Dr Hillyer says, there is full traceability in relation to horses in training through our system. This year's foal crop was the first crop to be issued with an e-passport, which will allow greater traceability for those horses. There is a working group comprising Horse Racing Ireland, the IHRB, Weatherbys, who operate the stud book, and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, working to complete the circle in the area Dr. Hillyer mentioned earlier, namely, horses at stud and in breeding farms. They are working with a view to completing that in the course of the next 12 months. The 2021 foal crop will be the first crop issued with e-passports and then it will work its way through the system. The comparison with cattle is a valid one in some sense, but equally, as Dr. Hillyer says, horses generally move significantly more during their lifetime than cattle.