Results 9,541-9,560 of 10,035 for speaker:Martin Cullen

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: I regret the manner in which Fine Gael is behaving on this issue. The Deputy's party——

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: The position of the Fine Gael Party leader is that we should all vote on the Internet from our homes, but at the same time——

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: ——his Front Bench spokesperson is asking spurious questions which have been answered ad infinitum before committee.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: Am I to be allowed reply to the question?

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy's bluster on this issue will not——

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: We have already tested this system in a general election and a referendum. Fine Gael raised no questions after either occasion about the system, and neither did the Labour Party at the time.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: Would the Deputy like to know what Fine Gael said about it?

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: Would he like me to quote back to him what his party said at the time?

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: Deputy Hayes said that the current system was imperfect, Deputy Clune said that she welcomed the introduction of the new system——

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: Deputy Dukes said the electronic counting of votes would greatly facilitate——

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

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

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

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

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy is full of it.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

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

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

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

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)

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

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)

Martin Cullen: ——were decided by fewer than 50 votes. My point is that more than 90% of spoiled votes are inadvertently spoiled. We will be able to eliminate this from the new system, thereby giving a far more accurate result and providing what people want.

Electronic Voting. (3 Feb 2004)

Martin Cullen: About what?