Seanad debates
Tuesday, 11 May 2004
Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee Stage (Resumed).
5:00 pm
Michael McCarthy (Labour)
I support Senator Quinn's amendments. It is important that these amendments are specific. We do not want a repetition of the case in India where heinous and wrong as the crime was, no prescribed law was broken. The amendment goes a long was towards ensuring that is not the system here. We have seen blatant abuse of many systems in recent years. We watched on television a few nights ago a person adept at computers who was able to create a worm which was capable of clogging up thousands of systems. The modus operandi of that individual was to give his mother's ailing computer business a temporary shot in the arm. These are issues of which we need to be careful.
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