Mr. John Osborne:

I received an email in 2022 from a person who is involved in a group that is active in this area. It established a list of approximately 110 horses over a four-year period that were Irish in origin but were known to be in the Netherlands or had passed through the Netherlands. This was brought to my attention and I made inquiries of colleagues in the Department of agriculture who had also received similar correspondence. It was not something over which we had any particular authority or in which we had ability to intervene.