Results 2,741-2,760 of 2,770 for speaker:Bernard Allen

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I am asking the Minister——

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: If being called "buddies of Fianna Fáil" is accusing them, well and good.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I am asking a question. Will the Minister make available——

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I will not withdraw it.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I am asking the Minister to make available the details of the contracts entered into between the PR company and his Department. Why has he not answered the questions regarding the verifiable paper audit trail and the source code of the system? Why are the questions unanswered and why is the Minister so headstrong in pushing forward this system? Will he suspend its introduction until there is...

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Are we to roll over under the jackboot tactics?

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: With proper safeguards. I am asking about safeguards.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: They have not been answered. Fourteen questions remain unanswered on this.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: He is telling lies.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: We did. That is incorrect. That is not true.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I know what it said.

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)

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

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)

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

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

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

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: That is not true.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

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

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: Will the Minister answer the question asked?

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: About a verifiable audit trail and the code source.