Guide to eParliament

Parliamentary Documents Available on-line

Information is provided on the following topics:

• Parliamentary Debates
• Bills and Amendments
• Outline Schedule of Dáil Business
• Order papers and Questions
• Parliamentary Documents on-line

Before a sitting

On the Friday afternoon before a sitting week, the agenda for plenary sessions and committee meetings, including links to relevant documents (e.g. bills), are published on the Oireachtas Web site.

The agenda are updated on a daily basis, and the order papers and questions papers are published before 06.00 each sitting day. The Dáil order of business is published before it is considered by the Dáil.

Daily and weekly alerting services for the agenda are also provided.


During a sitting

Live Webcasts, IPTV, and internet radio coverage of the Dáil, Seanad and Committees is provided.


After a sitting

The plenary session debates are published incrementally on a sitting day and completely within one day, and committee debates are published within three days of a meeting.

Video recordings are published on-line two days after a sitting.


Ongoing

The legislative observatory is updated on a daily basis. A Web page for each bill, including the text of each version of the bill, explanatory memoranda, tabled amendments, Acts of the Oireachtas and official translations is also updated daily.  The current status of each bill is indicated, and links to the debates on each bill are included.

The members chronology is updated on a daily basis.

All other parliamentary documents are published on a daily basis.