Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

Deputy O'Dowd's party published a good leaflet on the issue in Meath. It is easy with hindsight to ask certain questions.

The issue of a voter verifiable audit trail, VVAT, is not the only one. It is worth pointing out that there is no national system where VVAT is in operation. I concede this is an area where it is necessary to make haste slowly because it concerns the level of confidence people have in the system. The Deputy is quite right that a degree of damage has been done to confidence in the system. However, I do not believe the system has been so undermined that it could not work in the future.

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