Brendan Ryan (Labour)

In my experience of Dustin I have found that he is well able to answer for himself and has dealt with far more formidable critics than Senator O'Toole. I will leave it to Dustin.

I fully agree with what the two previous speakers said about electronic voting. Why did Members of both Houses of the Oireachtas insist that a detailed paper trail, requiring the signature of four Members of each House, be put in place when electronic voting was introduced here? When we take a vote electronically in the House there is a paper record that is signed and verified by four Members. The Oireachtas does not trust electronic voting sufficiently to dispense with a paper record.