Mr. Anthony Collins:

The cost of the registration comes mainly from the passport agency and the vet. In the case of a horse, the vet must come out to insert the microchip at a cost of €60 or €70. The passport agency then gets anything from €35 to €60, depending on the pedigree status of the foal. This is where the cost is coming from. That does not happen across the other farming sectors. The difficulty we have is that this level of identification is not necessary. We want a level of identification that delivers for a farm animal. We want the horse to be clarified as a farm animal in the beginning. Later in its life, from a three-year-old upwards, if the horse enters the sport industry it comes under the remit of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. This is why there is a breakdown in the identification. The horse has two different parts to its life. We are concerned with the first part of the horse's life at farmyard level. This is where the horse is to be identified, and at that cost. Would Deputy Carthy remind me of the first part to his question?