Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I ask the witnesses to furnish the committee, through the clerk, with the percentage of passports that were applied for this year and the duration it took for them to be processed. It would be very interesting because I have not spoken to one breeder who has had their passports processed in less then two or three months, and I have spoken to quite a number of them. Breeders will be going to the sales now and they will have to get a letter from HSI to say they have applied for a passport. They could wait six months for the passport to be processed and they will not get paid for that horse. Am I right in saying that?