Dáil Éireann
Official Report latest update:
Thu, 11 Jul 2019: 34 topics were published, which include 144 speakers and divisions of the House.
Seanad Éireann
Official Report latest update:
Fri, 12 Jul 2019: 4 topics were published, which include 30 speakers and divisions of the House.
Committees
Official Report latest update:
Meeting of the Joint Committee On Transport, Tourism And Sport on Wed, 17 Jul 2019.
PQs (Questions)
Official Report latest update:
Thu, 11 Jul 2019: 979 Parliamentary Questions answered.
There are 158 Members (called Deputies or TDs) of Dáil Éireann.
There are 60 Members (called Senators) in Seanad Éireann.
Members of the OPLA team
Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers
The Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers (OPLA) has published a web page and guidance notes for Members and staff about its expanded legal services. The OPLA is the in-house legal team of the Houses of the Oireachtas. Completely independent of Government, the team provides specialist, non-partisan legal advice to Parliament, its Members and staff.
Exhibition
Treasures of the Oireachtas Library
To mark Dáil100, the centenary of the First Dáil, the Oireachtas Library & Research Service (L&RS) invited guest curators to explore the treasures in its collection and choose their favourites.
Watch the video and click the link below to find out more.
Oireachtas TV debate
Seanad reform and electoral commission
Join Flor MacCarthy for this month’s Oireachtas TV debate discussing Seanad reform and the proposal to introduce an electoral commission. Guests include former Independent Senator Joe O’Toole, political editor Niamh Lyons, political scientist Dr. Theresa Reidy, and political editor Daniel McConnell.
News
18 Jul 19, 09.00
16 Jul 19, 12.00
10 Jul 19, 10.00
Press releases
18 Jul 2019, 10.11
Working group on parliamentary privilege and citizens’ rights call for written submissions
17 Jul 2019, 14.00
Joint Oireachtas Committee report calls for more “joined up” thinking and funding to improve rural transport
16 Jul 2019, 10.44
Joint Committee on Transport, Tourism & Sport to meet Governance Review Group to discuss the FAI
15 Jul 2019, 16.04
Regional Internet Service Providers group before the Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
10 Jul 2019, 17.33
ComReg before Communications Committee to discuss National Broadband Plan
Ireland: a parliamentary democracy
Ireland is a parliamentary democracy. The National Parliament (Oireachtas) consists of the President and two Houses: Dáil Éireann (House of Representatives) and Seanad Éireann (the Senate) whose functions and powers derive from the Constitution of Ireland enacted by the people on 1 July 1937. The Houses of the Oireachtas are situated at Leinster House, Dublin.
This year we celebrate Dáil100, the centenary of the First Dáil, which held its first public meeting on 21 January 1919.
I do not think there is anything necessarily dishonourable in being on the Opposition benches, although some gentlemen over there bear it with a very poor grace.
Recently considered Bills and Acts
17 Jul 2019
Before Seanad Éireann
Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019
No. 59 of 2019
12 Jul 2019
Before Seanad Éireann
CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019
No. 44 of 2019
12 Jul 2019
Before Seanad Éireann
Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Bill 2019
No. 49 of 2019
11 Jul 2019
Before Dáil Éireann
Courts Bill 2019
No. 24 of 2019
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