Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael)

——where there is an equitable distribution of votes across the board. That might lead to all sorts of mathematical permutations and it might mean the Clerk of the Seanad would go on tour throughout the country to educate all the returning officers. There are anomalies in the system. We have seen them and they are undemocratic.

The other matter with which I am disappointed is one which the Acting Chairman will roar at me for raising.