David Norris (Independent)

I am not the only computer-illiterate person in the general vicinity. We have seen the scandal of the computer system in the Department of Health and Children, but we previously had a debate on the enormous expenditure of money on electronic voting machines, a system which proved inadequate. One of the matters we teased out in this House at the time was that the people designing those machines on the continent of Europe, in Holland as I understand, had not been required to test them against a particular Irish model.