Posted by bollinsl on 28 August 2008
The Schedule of Business this Week in the Houses of the Oireachtas page is published on Friday afternoon, containing the business for the following week in the Dáil, Seanad and Parliamentary Committees.
This Week in the Houses of the Oireachtas is compiled by the eDemocracy Unit of the Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas from information supplied by the Office of the Ceann Comhairle, the Office of the Cathaoirleach, the Seanad Office, the Journal Office, the Public Bills Office, the Questions Office, the Office of the Government Chief Whip (Dáil), the Office of the Government Chief Whip (Seanad), the Committee Secretariat, and the Public Relations Office.
Links are provided to the HTML page of Bills under discussion that week, including the full text of the bill (for every edition of the bill), the amendment lists, links to earlier debates).
An RSS feed is available here.
Email alerts are available here.
The page is updated as new information becomes available.
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Posted by bollinsl on 28 August 2008
The original Houses Web site was a Lotus Notes bases system, used in 1996.
The original banner design is available
here.
Click here to see a sample frame based page.
In 2003, a new design was implemented, removing frames, and a simple CMS was purchased for Oireachtas.ie . The design was implemented across all sites.
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This is the Houses’ main Web site, and contains:
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general infomation
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This Week in the Houses of the Oireachtas
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Order Papers and Parliamentary Questions
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Committees (including recent unrevised debates)
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Legislative Information (Bills and Acts and some amendment lists 1997 —)
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Members of both Houses
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A search engine is included which also covers current debates (debates.oireachtas.ie)
Fusio was the successful bidder. A number of designs were submitted, and the design below was selected.
The site is based on a CMS, and pages are available as:
The navigation and pages can be in English and Irish.
http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?UserLang=GA&DocID=9802&&CatID=60
PDF and Word pages etc. can eb published, and an abstract will appear, with links to the readers, befor the file is downloaded. for example:
http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?fn=/documents/bills28/bills/2008/4208/b4208S.pdf
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Posted by bollinsl on 28 August 2008
The Dail and Seanad are Webcast live, and the recordings since 26 January 2008 are archived on two on-line video archive servers.
A simple on-line tool is available which generates XML links to the video segments based on the following inputs:
- Forum (Dáil | Seanad)
- Date
- Start time
- End time
Links can be generated to any part of the debates using this tool.
For example:
http://web.oirarcone.heanet.ie/asx.aspx?Channel=Seanad&Date=20080221&Start=00:04:09.000&Duration=00:00:00.000
Examples are available on the
pages. The archive may be played embedded in the page, or as a stand alone player.
It is also possible to download the complete wmv video files, but they are around 6 GB for a days sitting.
The Oireachtas has two 5.5 TB servers (one is a backup), and given that there are 100 sitting days for each house a year, the storage requirement amounts to: 6 GB * 100 days * 2 houses = 1.6 TB per annum, or in other words, we have enough storage for over four years.
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