James Bannon (Fine Gael)

In supporting this amendment one has to say the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and his Ministers of State are making many contradictory statements on the issue. Last week the Minister of State, Deputy Gallagher, made the best case for verification when he stated that he feared that the accompanying paper ballot trail could yield a different result to the electronic one. This is a serious fact. Many people are quite annoyed about it. Last night on the radio another Minister of State said——