Results 10,141-10,160 of 10,459 for speaker:Bertie Ahern
- Order of Business. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: It is not possible to indicate but the recent reports of the constitutional group will be examined.
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: The commission on electronic voting, which reported to you, a Cheann Comhairle, last Friday confirmed that the selected system for electronic voting could accurately and consistently record voter preferences. The commission also stated that experts retained by the commission confirmed that the system accurately and consistently counted votes at the pilot elections, which have already been...
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: It is six weeks to 11 June, and I am sure not even Deputy Kenny would argue that delaying its use beyond six weeks would affect a machine with a lifespan of 20 years. I do not think he is saying that. The accurate recording and counting of votes are fundamental to the operation of an electronic voting system. The commission's report points to the capability of the Nedap-Powervote system to...
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: The investment in the system is, therefore, not in any way compromised. The commission emphasised that its conclusion against recommending the system in June is not based on any finding that the present system will not work, but on the desirability of allowing time for further testing and quality assurance, and we will provide that time.
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: Deputy Kenny contends that the commission has stated that the system is flawed and cannot carry out electronic voting, but the commission has not stated that.
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: It stated that more time should be provided to carry out further pilot studies at which point we will see if there is anything wrong with the system.
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: As we have said many times, the system has been tested internationally, and there is a French contract in place. If the work that has gone on here over the past two months shows that anything is wrong, I will be surprised, but I will accept it. If the engineers, the technicians and the software developers who have been involved for 15 years in designing the system are found in two months to...
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: Electronic voting was debated for five years. There are some in this House who love to condemn the United States of America, but it was only in mid-January when a row started about electronic voting there that people in this country tried to argue that we should change the system.
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: It is wrong to run away from methods of making our country more modern. We should use technology rather than being dragged away from it by old styles, old parties and old rants which go on in this House.
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: No money has been wasted on this project.
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: The commission has stated that its experts have been involved in carrying out testing. It has examined the voting machines and the counting software, including the parallel testing and can confirm that the system can accurately and concisely record voter preferences. The commission has not been able, within the timeframe of its report, to satisfy itself sufficiently as to the accuracy and...
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: The point raised by Deputy Rabbitte is dealt within the report.
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: The Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government raised the issue, not the commission.
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: The commission stated the surplus was infinitesimal in that it was to a degree of 0.001. On accuracy, the commission, where it states that certain of its tests identified an error in the count software which could lead to incorrect distribution of surpluses, stated it did so to a degree of 0.001.
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: The error would not have made any difference. The matter was identified by the Department, brought to the attention of the commission and rectified. No great finding is involved.
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: I cannot come into this House and state that the system has been ridiculed, as already stated in the House, and can never be used again. That is not what the commission report states.
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: The commission report states that all the tests and pilot studies it would like to carry out cannot be done in the time available.
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: I listened to Deputy Rabbitte.
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: The commission has little to say about the machines. The machines have a 20 year life span.
- Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)
Bertie Ahern: The commission report deals with the software involved. If, along the road, the commission identifies and proves a problem with the software, we will then consider the matter.The software is regularly changed and amended.We will await the outcome of the pilot tests. The Government is allowing time for the undertaking of the tests and it is right that it should do so.