Mr. Sean Coughlan:

Of the 7,000, we have seen no discernible difference in the size of the herds. There has been a rapid increase in the number of tags coming in, primarily because farmers are starting to house their animals because of all the rain. All the animals are coming in and are easy to tag.

The cut-off dates are the realm of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. My understanding is that there is no cut-off date for payment. I am not sure of the exact date of the payment in December but if it is 10 December or 12 December and the information is not in at least a week before that, it will not be processed in time to be through for payment.