Posted by bollinsl on 13 October 2008
A new broadband Flash Webcasting service of Dáil Éireann is now available on the Houses of the Oireachtas Web site.
This is in addition to the Oireachtas Live Windows Media Player, MPEG2 and MPEG4 services already available.
This service will be available for the Budget Debate on Tuesday 13 October 2008.
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Posted by bollinsl on 18 September 2008
The European Parliament launched its EuroparlTV Web TV service on 17 September 2008. The Dublin launch took place in the European Parliament offices in Molesworth Street, Dublin 2.
You can see the service at: http://www.europarltv.europa.eu/
An extract from the briefing note follows:
Europarltv is not a single channel but rather is split into four channels, each directed to a different audience:
Your Parliament, aimed at those with a particular interest in politics at the EU level: informed citizens, industry groups, social partners, lobbyists, academics as well as those working in the EU institutions.
Your Voice, conceived for the general public and providing the possibility of featuring user-generated content.
Young Europe, aimed particularly at school-aged children, high users of the Internet and the European electorate of the future.
Parliament Live provides continuous coverage of live events in the Parliament, notably debates in the plenary sessions, with a link to the audiovisual archives of previous sessions, as well as in the coming months, the activities of the committees.
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Posted by bollinsl on 11 September 2008
This post outlines the legal basis of the publication of legislation in Ireland.
Proof of Acts of the Oireachtas
2. —
Prima facie evidence of this or any other Act of the Oireachtas whether public, or private, and whether passed before or after the passing of this Act, or of the Journal of the Proceedings of either House of the Oireachtas, may be given in all Courts of Justice and in all legal proceedings by the production of a copy of such Act or Journal printed under the superintendence or authority of and published by the Stationery Office.
Signing and Promulgation of Laws
Article 25 4
2° Every Bill signed by the President under this Constitution shall be promulgated by him as a law by the publication by his direction of a notice in the Iris Oifigiúil stating that the Bill has become law.
5° As soon as may be after the signature and promulgation of a Bill as a law, the text of such law which was signed by the President or, where the President has signed the text of such law in each of the official languages, both the signed texts shall be enrolled for record in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, and the text, or both the texts, so enrolled shall be conclusive evidence of the provisions of such law.
3.—
(1) The following provisions shall apply in respect of every statutory instrument to which this Act primarily applies
(a ) within seven days after the making thereof, a copy thereof shall be sent to each of the following, namely, the National Library of Ireland, the Law Library, Four Courts, Dublin, the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland, the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, the Cork Chamber of Commerce the Limerick Chamber of Commerce, the Waterford Chamber of Commerce and the Galway Chamber of Commerce,
( b ) as soon as may be after it is made, it shall, notwithstanding that it is liable to be annulled, be printed under the superintendence of the Stationery Office,
( c ) as soon as may be after it has been printed, notice of the making thereof and of the place where copies thereof may be obtained shall be published in the Iris Oifigiúil,
( d ) as on and from the date of the issue of the Iris Oifigiúil containing the said notice, copies of the said statutory instrument shall be kept at the place specified in the said notice and may be obtained there.
Copyright in Acts, etc.
192.—
(1) The copyright in any Bill or enactment vests in the Houses of the Oireachtas.
(2) The copyright provided for in this section subsists from the date of the first lawful making available to the public of the work and shall expire 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was so made available.
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Posted by bollinsl on 9 September 2008
Constitution of Ireland
Access: free
Status: informative value
Available Media: On-line database / Website
Organisation responsible: Department of the Taoiseach
Contents
The Constitution of Ireland – Bunreacht na hÉireann is available on-line on the Department of the Taoiseach’s (prime minister’s) Web site.
Access: free
Status: informative value
Available Media: On-line database / Website, CD-ROM
Organisation responsible: Office of the Attorney General
Contents
Acts of the Oireachtas are published by the Stationery Office, Government Supplies Agency, part of the Office of Public Works, and available for sale through the Government Publications Sale Office, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2, by mail order, or through any bookseller.
The Irish Statute Book Web site www.irishstatutebook.ie, published by the Office of the Attorney General, contains the following legal texts in HTML:
Access: free
Status: PDF copies of Acts and Official translations – legally binding (prima facie evidence), html – informative value
Available Media: On-line database / Website, DVD (Debates)
Organisation responsible: Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas
Contents
Bills, Acts and Official Translations, and Parliamentary Debates
The Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas Web site contains the full text of Bills, Explanatory and Financial Memoranda, Amendments, Acts of the Oireachtas and Official Translations, and Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann.
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Posted by bollinsl on 6 September 2008
Committee Debates
Available committee debates will be added to the hsitorical debates Web site.
Committee Reports
Available committee reports will be added to the historical debates Web site.
eChamber
This Web site will be focused on the business before the Dáil today and this week. The system will be extended to the Seanad and Committees. The site will be available in the chambers, committee rooms, on the Intranet, Extranet, and in time on the Web.
Amendments in Context
This site will be a sub site of eChamber, focused on amendments to bills, presented in context, that is, how the section would appear if the amendment was accepted.
Automatic updating feed
A system which would automatically update a page with the business before the House at that point in time is being looked at. This feed could include the video feed of what is happening in the House (or committee) and the amendment, question or motion before the House, at that point in time. The user would be able to select which data (video or document) they would like to see.
Linking legisation and debates
A system that would provide links between Acts, and the debates on the corresponding bills is being prototyped.
Extranet
Intranet sites (including eCha,ber, and Library and Research premium sites) are available over the Web via an Extranet.
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Posted by bollinsl on 5 September 2008
This note outlines the Oireachtas Web sites.
A CMS is used to publish the pages to this site.
Pages can ve viewed as
Pages can also be viewed in English or Irish.
Pages an be viewed by category. HTML filenames can also be used.
Dublin Core Metadata can be added.
A wrapper is provided for PDF, MS Word and RTF files, including DC Metadata and, title and an abstract.
WAP functionality is available, but not used.
Web survey functionality is included.
SMS functionality can be added.
RSS is added manually.
Email alerts are also available, created manually.
CMS supplied by Fusio.
XML files of Bills, and Acts are converted into PDF by Cahill Printers Limited, using an XML files created using an XML authoring system created by Propylon.
Mysql is used to store and present this database.
Original database created by Propylon for the Historical Debates Web site. Current version adapted for the Web site by by Fusio.
This site is XML based, and staff can edit the debatse on-line.
Log files are created using a logging system supplied by Digitake.
Takes are created in a Lotus Notes system, converted into MS Word or RTF (10 takes), and parsed into XML.
Data is presented to the users as HTML cached files, HTML generated on the fly from XML, and as PDF with links from a contents page.
The system was written using Microsoft .NET by Cahill Printers Limited.
The XML files from the current debates system are converted into SGML, and then into HTML, day menus are created, DC Metadata is added.
Created by Propylon.
http://acts.oireachtas.ie/ (no frames search)
http://acts2.oireachtas.ie/ (frames search)
Note the bilingual view, and the links between the Irish and English versions.
XML fils of Acts are converted into HTML.
XML authoring system, Web sites and translation aid created by Propylon.
http://ceanncomhairle.oireachtas.ie/
http://cathaoirleach.oireachtas.ie/
Created using Frontpage by Fusio.
Windows Media Webcasting and MPEG2 IPTV provided in association with HEAnet, Ireland’s National Research and Educational Network.
XML links can be created which will replay part of the video archives. Complete recordings can be downloaded.
IPTV – Government Networks
MPEG4 IPTV provided in association with the Department of Finance.
Created using Dreamweaver by Fusio.
Page and PDF files supplied by Cahill Printers Limited.
Written using Lotus Notes by Siemens.
See also
Prototype created by Fusio.
A microsite created in order to publish a committee report.
Created by ?
Websites are usually hosted by the LGCSB (Local Government Computer Services Board).
Provided in association with the Department of Finance.
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Posted by bollinsl on 4 September 2008
Various search tools have been used to allow users to search the Houses Web sites.
PLWeb
An old but effective search engine “PLWeb” is used to provide searching on the following hugh Web sites:
The search index is updated when new data is added. DC Metadata is added to the pages, adding to the search functionality.
dtSearch
http://acts2.oireachtas.ie/dtSearch_english.html
In order to allow users to see what Acts are available on-line in both Irish and English, an alternative version of Achtanna.ie is available as achtanna2.oireachtas.ie or acts2.oireachtas.ie using the dtsearch search engine is provided:
A Google appliance and on-line Google tools are available for users who wish to search the other Oireachtas sites:
Lucene
Lucene is used for the committee reports site under development.
Other Search engines
A number of other search engines were used over the years, including:
Issues
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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
Click here to see a sample frame based page.
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 main Oireachtas Web site is available at:
http://www.oireachtas.ie/ViewDoc.asp?fn=/home.asp
Subdomains:
http://debates.oireachtas.ie/Main.aspx
http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/index.html
http://acts.oireachtas.ie/ and http://achtanna.oireachtas.ie/
http://acts2.oireachtas.ie/ and http://achtanna2.oireachtas.ie/
http://broadband.oireachtas.ie/
http://econsultation.oireachtas.ie
other domain names:
| ACHTANNA.IE |
| ACTS.IE |
| cathaoirleach.com |
| CATHAOIRLEACH.IE |
| cathaoirleach.net |
| cathaoirleach.org |
| ceanncomhairle.com |
| CEANNCOMHAIRLE.IE |
| ceanncomhairle.net |
| ceanncomhairle.org |
| DAIL.IE |
| DAILEIREANN.IE |
| daileireann.net |
| daileireann.org |
| echamber.ie |
| econsultation.ie |
| edemocracy.ie |
| eparliament.ie |
| DEPUTIES.IE |
| feileoireachtais.ie |
| HOUSESOFTHEOIREACHTAS.IE |
| IRISHPARLIAMENT.IE |
| irishparliament.net |
| irishparliament.org |
| law4u.ie |
| LEINSTERHOUSE.IE |
| OIR.IE |
| oireachtasfamilyday.ie |
| oireachtasfestival.ie |
| oireachtas.net |
| oireachtas.org |
| PARLIAMENT.IE |
| RANNOGANAISTRIUCHAIN.IE |
| SEANAD.IE |
| seanad.net |
| seanad.org |
| seanadcount.ie |
| SEANADEIREANN.IE |
| seanadeireann.net |
| seanadeireann.org |
| SENATE.IE |
| SENATORS.IE |
| urlaw.ie |
| euaffairs.ie |
| europeaffairs.ie |
| europeanaffairs.ie |
| europeat50.ie |
| europeatfifty.ie |
| europeday.ie |
oireachtas.eu
oir.eu
dail.eu
daileireann.eu
seanad.eu
seanadeireann.eu
irishparliament.eu
leinsterhouse.eu
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