Mr. Michael Sheahan:

I will answer the second question first. Extra safeguards have been put in place for equine transport . We have asked our colleagues in Rosslare Europort and Dublin Port and in the North to put in place extra welfare checks on horses leaving the country from now on. Those measures are now in place. As I mentioned earlier, we are having a meeting with our northern colleagues on Monday to discuss further measures that might need to be taken in relation to the whole issue.

On the first question about when there might there be a slaughter plant, I may have covered this earlier but I reiterate that we have had a number of inquiries from people about the possibility-----