Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following urgent matter: the criminal waste of up to €50 million of taxpayers' funds on voting machines which cannot be used for the local and European elections on 11 June; the reason the Taoiseach and the Government allowed the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government arrogantly to dismiss the objections raised by a wide range of individuals to his proposals for electronic voting and thus incur this expenditure; and the need for the Minister to be separated from the Government, recycled to the back benches and hopefully landfilled by the people of Waterford at the next general election.

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