Charlie McCreevy (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)

This system is secure, reliable and can be trusted by the people. It has been in use for over ten years in the Netherlands, for some years in a number of German cities, in pilot polls in the UK and at two polls in this country. It has also been approved for use in a number of constituencies in France in the forthcoming European Parliament elections. The governments, opposition parties and peoples of these countries do not operate an electoral system which is insecure or unreliable.

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