Ms Martina Kenny:

Yes. I can send the Deputy his proposal as well. He does not go into his proposals with regard to broodmares in the copy I have here. There has to be something that addresses overbreeding because there is definitely an overbreeding problem as well, which contributes to the problem of unwanted horses and where they all go. There are some statistics on how many foals are born every year and how many horses go unaccounted for. Thousands of horses just disappear, and nobody knows where they have gone. Now, if we were watching RTÉ, we can imagine that maybe some of them have had new chips put into them with other numbers and been matched up with a surplus passport and they disappear that way. Thousands of equines are disappearing every year, however, and we do not know where they are going.