Results 221-240 of 1,041,418 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Joe McHugh OR speaker:Carol Nolan)

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister should quit the waffle and answer the question.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: The question has been more than answered. This system——

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister should answer it.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: The Minister is not a fit person to answer the question. He has a vested interest.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: In what? What is the Deputy's point now?

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Séamus Pattison: Order, please. Time is running out on this question.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: The Minister asked what my point was. I will explain it to him.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy is full of it.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: The Minister is the political head of the Department introducing the system, but it should have been introduced by an independent electoral commission established with the consent of all parties in the Dáil——

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: The Dáil and the Oireachtas decided on this, not I.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: ——as would happen in any democracy.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: It was also fully supported by the Fine Gael Party.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: That is not true. The Minister forced it through.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Séamus Pattison: Order, the Minister is still in possession.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy knows well that these machines have been tested internationally in Germany——

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Durkan: In Florida.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: ——the Netherlands and other places by independent institutes of international renown——

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: That is not true.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy knows this. I am puzzled by Fine Gael's approach to this matter. Perhaps the Deputy will be interested to note that, in the previous local elections, 21,000 votes were declared spoiled. At the same time more than 40 seats——

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: What has that got to do with it?