Mr. Michael Sheahan:

Absolutely and we are there. As I have said, the standard of animals coming into the plant were in good condition. Despite the impression that might have been given in the programme of sick and dying animals coming in, they were not. Should we have known about the horrific stuff we saw in the footage and should we have known that this was happening? I would love to say that we should have. We typically rely on people ringing us up or tipping us off on the help line. Unfortunately we had complaints about the occasional thin horse or the occasional lame horse. We sent an experienced vet out to examine. We did not come across anything that merited serving a welfare notice or bringing a prosecution or anything like that.