Brendan Ryan (Labour)

This section deals with the extension of Revenue on-line services to PAYE payers. Will the Minister of State explain why, after all the years of extending electronic payments into various areas — including the PAYE sector — Leinster House cannot pay Members various irregular benefits, such as travelling expenses, by electronic means and still insists on writing cheques? We should start by giving the good example of using electronic payments here and then extending them to the remainder of the country. I do not understand why this cannot be done.