Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Regarding three areas where there has clearly been serious wastage of public money, PPARS at a cost €150 million, electronic voting at a cost €60 million and the e-lab project at a cost of €35 million, making a total of almost €250 million, can the Tánaiste confirm if the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey, is speaking for the Government when he says the amount of money misspent is relatively very small? Is that view shared by the Government, or does collective responsibility apply to comments made by Ministers in that regard?

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