Plug pulled on €51m e-voting fiasco

THE Government pulled the plug on the e51 million e-voting fiasco yesterday but Environment Minister John Gormley stopped short of apologising for the waste of taxpayers’ money.

Announcing the decision in Cork, Mr Gormley said: “If you find at the end of the day that you can’t use the machines, clearly you have to classify that as wastage of money.”

But he said he did not create the problem. “I did not create this difficulty. I came into office and had to deal with it, and now I am dealing with it. I didn’t rush into the decision. I looked at all options. I hope that I will get credit for this decision,” he said.