The person named applied on 26 cows under the 1998 suckler cow premium scheme and 46 animals, including the 26 cows, under the 1998 cattle headage scheme. Six of the cows had invalid tag numbers. My Department wrote to the person named on 15 September 1998 and again on 23 September 1998 requesting correct tag numbers for the animals in question. To date no reply has been received from the person named. Eight of the animals applied on under the 1998 cattle headage scheme were not registered with the National Calf Birth Registration Service and the person named was written to by my Department on the 15 September 1998 requesting that the animals be registered. To date, only six of the animals have been registered. The remaining two animals will have to be registered and the six invalid tag numbers corrected before the applications can be processed further.