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We want to support people who need to hear the content on our website or need additional visual supports to read it. To do this we use Browsealoud, an accessibility and reading support tool. Browsealoud stores some data in the local storage of a person's browser. This enables it to work correctly. If you do not accept functional cookies, the 'Listen' button in the footer of every page will not display and you will not be able to avail of the Browsealoud tool. You can turn these cookies on or off at any time on this page. When you save your functional cookies choice, a cookie will be stored on your device with this information. List of functional cookies
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Oireachtas.ie cookie list
| Cookie name | Description | Cookie type |
| SECSESSID | General purpose platform session cookie. Used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. | Necessary |
| FluentLocale | This cookie is used to remember your language preferences. | Necessary |
| AcceptCookies | This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on our website. Where users have previously indicated a preference their preference will be stored in this cookie. | Necessary |
| readerView | A cookie that remembers you have chosen to see content in our Reader View layout. It is deleted when the session ends. | Necessary |
| Media-Session, MediaCookie | These cookies are set by our video playback platform (read more about HEAnet cookies). They ensure video data is routed correctly back to the user during playback. | Necessary |
| _ga, _ela, _gid, _gat | Google analytics cookies used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | Analytics |
| _hjid, _hjTLDTest, _hjIncludedInPageviewSample, _hjIncludedInSessionSample, _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress, ajs_user-ID | These cookies are associated with web analytics functionality from Hotjar. They are only set when a user lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | Analytics |
| API_SETTINGS_V2, TH_TOOLBAR_SETTINGS | Similar to a cookie, these settings store data about users' preferences for the Browsealoud tool which can read aloud content on our website. The data resides in "local storage" in users' browsers. No personally identifiable data is stored; only information about the user’s selections and preferences as they move around the site. | Functional |
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Oireachtas Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
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Constituency dashboards website
http://dashboards.oireachtas.ie
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