Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)

Has a deadline been set by which this process of disbanding the electronic voting project will be completed? On foot of the Minister's announcement on 23 April, what will be the estimated total cost to achieve this deadline? Within the costs associated with the overall process of dismantling this project, has the Minister identified what will be the cost to escape those leases that were set for 20 years? In the context of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, everyone knew these machines were the equivalent of PlayStation Ones that would expire within a certain timeframe. The idea that leases were taken out for 20 or 25 years on a product that had a limited shelf life was madness in the first instance.

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