Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

I will ask Dr. Blake to help me with some of the process questions. We are reviewing the entire system now. I think I said that at the beginning.

We got Professor Paddy Wall in to help us with that. It is the identification issue. We have to be sure that when an animal comes into a plant, it is the same animal it was identified as at the point of registration. There are various ways of doing that. We have some ideas around that but we want to make sure it is not a deterrent to registration either. We need people to register foals. We need to make sure that those animals are correctly identified at the point of slaughter. I mentioned the DNA possibility earlier. For example, one possibility is to require DNA registration at the point of registration of a foal and check the carcass in the plant afterwards before it is released to make sure the DNA matches the registered DNA. That is a potential solution. One does not want to impose costs or complex processes for owners which might be a deterrent to registration. That would be an undesirable consequence. When I spoke earlier about wanting to understand any unintended consequences, that is a potential one. Will Mr. Blake talk us through the process of registration and identification?