Please note that your Internet service provider and your network must support multicast IP and be peered with the Oireachtas service provider HEAnet in order for you to be able to access this multicast IPTV service.

The following are the IP addresses and ports for each stream.

Dáil (3 mbit/s): 233.4.189.33:1234
Dáil (1 mbit/s): 233.4.189.33:1235

Seanad (3 mbit/s): 233.4.189.34:1234
Seanad (1 mbit/s): 233.4.189.34:1235

Committee 1 (3 mbit/s): 233.4.189.35:1234
Committee 1 (1 mbit/s): 233.4.189.35:1235

Committee 2 (3 mbit/s): 233.4.189.36:1234
Committee 2 (1 mbit/s): 233.4.189.36:1235

Committee 3 (3 mbit/s): 233.4.189.37:1234
Committee 3 (1 mbit/s): 233.4.189.37:1235

Committee 4 (3 mbit/s): 233.4.189.38:1234
Committee 4 (1 mbit/s): 233.4.189.38:1235

For example, on a PC, load the VLC player, select "Open Network Stream" from the "Media Menu"

• For the Dáil channel
  • select "UDP/RTP Multicast"
  • enter 233.4.189.33 as the IP address
  • enter 1234 as the port number
  • Click "OK".
• For the Seanad feed channel:
  • select "UDP/RTP Multicast"
  • enter 233.4.189.34 as the IP address
  • enter 1234 as the port number
  • Click "OK".
• For the Committee Room 1 channel: 
  • select "UDP/RTP Multicast"
  • enter 233.4.189.35 as the IP address
  • enter 1234 as the port number
  • Click "OK".
• Etc.

This is an experimental IPTV service. The televisions channels are converted from the SDI video format supplied by the Oireachtas Broadcasting Unit, and and provided as multicast MPEG4 on the Internet at 3 MBit/sec. and 1 MBit/sec using digital encoders with and SDI input.

This IPTV service is provided in association with HEAnet.

Rules of Coverage

Please note that use of Webcasts (including IPTV) 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...".

Any service provider who wishes to reuse the these IPTV streams should write to the Joint Committee requesting their agreement that they may use the feed from the Houses on their network, subject to the rules of coverage.

Please send any comments or queries about this Parliamentary IPTV service to:

Leo Bollins, Principal Clerk, eDemocracy Unit,
Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas,
Leinster House,
Dublin 2,
Ireland.

Phone: + 353 (0) 1 618 3568
Fax: + 353 (0) 1 618 4035

email: Leo.Bollins@Oireachtas.ie

The Dáil and Seanad Webcasting and multicast 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.

See also Oireachtas Live, and IPTV on the Government Networks

The MPEG2 service was upgraded to MPEG4 in on 12 January 2010.

This service changed to widescreen from 1 December 2006