Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I put questions on the last occasion regarding horse passports. I do not have the transcript with me but the impression I got from the official from the Department replying to me was that they could not understand how this could have happened and there were no concerns, yet we know there were issues with passports going back to 2013 and there was another facility where, my understanding is, passports were bought on Amazon, and the Department would have been aware of that. Therefore, the Department was aware there were issues with passports. It was not just one set of questions that I felt I did not get a full and proper reply to. It related to other issues, including the identification of horses. We now know that this particular facility or particular individual had passports with no corresponding horses. Can Mr. Gleeson address that?