Mr. Michael Sheahan:

A couple of things arise specifically after last week. Two main things arose from the programme with regard to identification. The biggest issue which came out is that if there is a weakness, it would appear that our central database works very well but in every other country which has a central database, which it is required to have one as per EU law, it would appear that there is a loophole in that in some countries, even though the horse is marked and their database entry has been deemed to be not eligible for the food chain, it appears that those databases do not talk to one another, so-----