E-voting machines help firm to €1m earnings

At least somebody profited from the State’s €55m waste of public monies on the ill-fated e-voting machine project.

Managing director KMK Metals, Kurk Kyck, confirmed yesterday that the company’s work on shredding the State’s 7,600 e-voting machines produced a profit for the firm, contributing to earnings of more than e1 million for the company last year.

Mr Kyck said: “The e-voting machine work was very much profitable for us, but I would prefer not to say how much.”