Today's sitting of Dáil Éireann commences the 1,000th bound volume of the Official Report of debates of Dáil Éireann.
The Official Report is the written record of everything that is said in public sittings of the Houses of the Oireachtas and their parliamentary committees. The Official Report dates back to the first public sitting of the First Dáil on 21 January 1919, marked by last year's Dáil100 commemorations. Vol. 1 of the numbered bound volumes commenced with the proceedings of the first sitting of the Third Dáil, on 9 September 1922.
Although the Official Report is now published online in the Debates section of this website, bound volumes of the debates are still printed and deposited with the copyright libraries. They can be purchased from Government Publications.