Mr. Michael Sheahan:

As far as I know, the Dutch authorities had actually contacted our investigations division - I presume it was around the time of that incident - to say they had some concerns about horses from Ireland that could not get into the food chain here but had gone to the Netherlands. Some illegal activity had happened, as far as I understand, regarding the issuing of new passports to them in Holland, or something like that. The Dutch authorities asked, as I understand it, for our assistance, and our investigations division offered whatever assistance they looked for at the time. That is how I understand it.