Dr. Damien Barrett:

We have ongoing collaboration and discussion with our colleagues in Northern Ireland.

There are a couple of differences with the situation in the North. The herd incidence there is somewhere between 9% and 10%, I believe, while we are just below 5%. The North also does not have a wildlife programme like we have. One thing it does have and has done great work on is genome sequencing and tracing the isolates and DNA fingerprinting. We are doing that as well and we have made great progress in the last few years. A particular team in Amply Discovery in Belfast led the way on this. Overall, we are in regular discussion and we do co-operate.