The ever talented has made a substantial announcement today about a new site called
The pitch:
Up until this morning TDs made 249,489 speeches, and asked 160,503 questions which received written responses. On average, TDs are producing 507 speeches and 326 written answers per sitting day.
Sadly you won’t have had access to information like this before, since the Houses of the Oireachtas publishes the Dáil record primarily on an illegible website ridden with elementary display errors.
At you can:
- Read a dramatically-more-legible version of the Dáil Record going back to January 2004,
- Search that record using a fabulous search engine which I didn’t
write – you can restrict searches to speeches or written questions, or
by speaker, or by date or date range, - Sign up for email alerts for when a search query you’re interested
changes, or whenever a TD of your choosing says something or asks a
question which generated a written reply, and - Subscribe to RSS feeds for individual TDs or for search queries.
The site will be updated the day after each sitting day shortly after the Oireachtas publishes that day’s first report version in XML. RSS feeds and emails are generated shortly after that.
John notes, that the site still contains bugs.. so be careful about jumping to early conclusions 
The Dáil has now really gone web 2.0, with a bang!!
LOVE THIS IDEA!