Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

Some €500,000 has been spent on the election management software. The commission gave its views on how we could improve that. That is what the committee is doing.

Our Dutch colleagues and others have studied this position. An editorial in a Dutch newspaper this morning stated: "A return to the system of paper and red pencil sounds romantic, but it is only a spurious solution, since fraud is possible in any system."

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