Alan M. Dukes
Ceist:55 Mr. Dukes asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development the measures he proposes to take to ensure that meat factories transfer the full information on sheep tags, including identification of origin, herd number and individual tag number from the tag on the carcass in order to remove any ambiguity as to the origin of the carcass; if he intends to provide for penalties in cases where factories fail to do this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18423/01]