Michael Brennan (Progressive Democrats)

I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Gallagher. An Agreed Programme for Government contains an agreement to introduce electronic voting. I compliment the work of the Commission on Electronic Voting, which published its report on this matter last week. It has served the electorate well. It is important to have a tried and trusted voting system. If more time is needed to get it right and to introduce legislation to put a system in place, it is right that we should provide that time. There is disillusionment among the general electorate because of the problems that have been encountered during the introduction of the system. I wish the Minister of State well with this Bill and with the testing that is needed to bring the system up to date so that it can be introduced.