Mr. Michael Sheahan:

Apparently, yes. We were contacted by the Dutch authorities two years ago who said they thought there was a problem. They said some horses were being exported from Ireland. They could not beat our system in Ireland and get into the food chain. They were being exported to Holland and finding a way of beating the system in Holland and Romania and places like that. As I said, the number of horses being slaughtered in Ireland is tiny compared with what it was. There was a time when we killed 24,000 horses. That has gradually reduced and now we kill fewer than 2,000 horses. A very small number of horses are getting through the system and getting into the food chain.