Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 363: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, further to Parliamentary Question No. 393 of 26 May 2009, if a person (details supplied) in County Louth was the registered owner of a herd number prior to 1989; and if so, the process undertaken to transfer the herd number to another person. [46752/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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As already notified to the legal representative of the first named person under the Freedom of Information Act, the documentation relating to the registration details of the herd number in question and the transfer of the herd number into the name of the second named person cannot be located. However, there is no record of any payments being made at any time to the first named person under various schemes administered by my Department.

The herd number system is an administrative arrangement under the disease eradication scheme and is designed primarily to assist in disease control. Assigning an individual to the role of "herdowner" does not confer a legal title to any lands or animals relating to the herd number.