Mr. Michael Sheahan:

I am not sure if a direction has been sent in the last six months but in the one case we were asked about and which we checked out, it was not the case. The only case I am aware of where the passport is sent to a person other than the keeper is where the owner of the horse has specifically written to the passport issuing body and given it permission to send it somewhere else. It happens in a limited number of cases if the passport issuing body get something in writing but other than that I am not aware of any cases of it happening. If there is a particular case the Deputy is aware of, we can look at it but the passport is supposed to go to the keeper.