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The Houses of the Oireachtas Service provides a variety of live and recorded Webcasting, IPTV, and television services to the public and the media.

Click on the menu on the left to connect to the service that you require.

Webcasting and IPTV Streams

The following live Webcasting and IPTV streams are available:

Dáil Éireann Committee Room 1 Committee Room 2
Seanad Éireann Committee Room 3 Committee Room 4

EU Presidency 2013

The Oireachtas Webcasting system is interoperable with the Dublin Castle television system.  Parliamentary meetings held in Dublin Castle during the EU Presidency January - June 2013 will be Webcast live using one of the existing channels.

Formats available

Oireachtas Webcasting is availble in the following formats:

Flash DVR

Windows Media Player

 Apple  IPTV

Users may rewind live video streams
by up to 3 hours

Available as live Video,
recorded video,
and Internet Radio

 iPhone,
iPad,
smartphones		 Multicast H.264
MPEG4

 Networks

General Internet Government Networks Education and Research Networks
All Webcasting streams   All Webcasting streams
Multicast IPTV MPEG4
is available on
Magnet Networks
and HEAnet in Ireland		 Multicast IPTV MPEG4 Multicast IPTV MPEG4

Rules of Coverage

Please note that use of Webcasts and broadcasts of the Houses and Parliamentary Committees must be in accordance with the Standing Orders of both Houses and the Rules of Coverage, in particular:

"... that recordings or extracts of the proceedings shall not be used in programmes of light entertainment, political satire, party political broadcasts or in any form of advertising or publicity, other than in the form of news and current affairs programme trailers...".‌‎

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The Oireachtas Webcasting and IPTV services are provided in association with HEAnet, Ireland's National Education and Research network, a not for profit company established by the universities and the Higher Education Authority.