Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael)

I agree with the comments of Senators Finucane, O'Meara and Kitt about the electoral register.

I wonder whether we could put the issue of the e-voting machines to bed once and for all. They were clearly never designed to cater for the intricacies of proportional representation. It is time for the State to recoup what it can of the €52 million outlay, not to mention the annual storage costs, and to sell the machines. That is the unanimous view of the Committee of Public Accounts and it is possibly the unanimous view of the House. Has the Government made a decision in this regard?