Mr. Michael Sheehan:

It could. There are two sides to the coin. Someone who has one of the 97% of herds that are clear of TB and who has made a significant investment in that herd obviously has a vested interest in knowing the differing risks of buying animals from one herd as distinct from another. On the other hand, a person who is selling and has had no TB in the herd for ten years would obviously not have a problem with making that fact known on a mart board or elsewhere. However, someone who has had 16 breakdowns in the past seven years will not want that information to be made available to somebody looking to buy cattle because nobody in their right mind would want to buy animals from that person.