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Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Not only have the views of the Opposition and various academic and information technology experts been dismissed, but ridicule and scorn have been poured on their heads by, among others, the Taoiseach. The Minister for Finance, Deputy McCreevy, came to the House to say he thought the Opposition was suggesting there were little Fianna Fáil leprechauns — if that is not a tautology, which is...

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The result is that €52 million has gone down the drain.

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Is there any incompetence——

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the Taoiseach agree that this is the most scandalous, unnecessary waste of taxpayers' money since Abbotstown? Is there any incompetence, bungling, administration or abuse of public funds that would cause a Minister in this Government to resign? Is it not the case that the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Cullen, ought to do the decent thing?

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: At a time when the Minister for Health and Children is leaking memos to the press to the effect that he is attempting to obtain €50 million from the Minister for Finance, the Government has wasted €52 million on a system of electronic voting for which nobody asked. This was the bright idea of the absent Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey. We have no shortage of tallypersons, yet the Government...

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not think Parliament can function in circumstances where, in a matter as straightforward as this, the Taoiseach can say with a straight face that no money has been wasted. There is no point in our continuing if he continues to treat the House in that manner. What does he mean when he says no money has been wasted? We know from a reply to a parliamentary question last week that €52...

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Noel Ahern, has enough to deal with in terms of the disappearance of the RAPID scheme without dipping his nose into something about which he told Vincent Browne he knew nothing.

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: At least he was honest.

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The commission also stated that the system could introduce the possibility of new errors in the use by electors of the voting system and that interference was possible in certain circumstances. What is the point of misrepresenting the commission's findings——

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: ——and making statements to the effect that no money has been wasted? The Government spent €157 million clearing the site at Abbotstown and €52 million on electronic voting machines. It treats public money like confetti at a time when the Minister for Social and Family Affairs saves €52 million off the backs of the most vulnerable in society and when hospitals require €50 million...

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: All we get from Ministers is ridicule, arrogance and incompetence.

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: There is no provision for a voter trail.

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: How much will it cost to store them?

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: The Mountains of Mourne falling on top of Monaghan.

Order of Business. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not agree to the proposal. I do not see the point of the House returning at 12.30 p.m. to debate a Bill which relates to 6,000 machines which not even Robert Mugabe would buy. Deputy Hayes wants €2 million for his local hospital. The 6,000 machines are worth about €2 million to some unelected dictator or southern state of the United States. What is the point of putting this...

Order of Business. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: Surely I am entitled to ask a question.

Order of Business. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: What is the point in returning at 12.30 p.m. to compound an error, already of monstrous proportions, with the——

Order of Business. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not propose to debate the content of the Bill. Why is the Taoiseach persisting with this measure? What is the purpose of bringing us back from Arbour Hill?

Order of Business. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I am merely trying to get a reply from the Taoiseach as to the purpose of engaging in this. It will lay us open to litigation from the supplying company. God knows what the extent of the exposure is but there is no point anybody on the side opposite, given their record——

Order of Business. (4 May 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: I will be up again if I do not get an answer.