Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

On Deputy Rabbitte's first point, I was quoting the commission's report. It states that the main hardware components of the system, including the voting machine, are of good quality and design, robust against failure and well suited to their purpose. That is an overall validation of the €46 million investment in voting machines and the associated hardware.

Deputy Rabbitte asked me where I got the figure of €500,000 to fix the software.

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