While I was away last week John Handelaar announced his new project, kildarestreet.com. It’s a site dedicated to reporting all the goings on in the Irish Parliament, from the horses mouth so to speak. It makes available to the general public everything that TDs (our members of parliament) say in session. This information is available on the official Government websites but it’s not easy to find.
I live in Blarney, in Cork North Central. I checked the list of TDs and found those that represent me, my family, my neighbours:
Interesting stats on each of their pages, and I really like the “most recent appearances”. I wonder if TDs will watch more closely what they say come the general election to avoid giving ammunition to their competitors or to avoid “putting their foot in it” in front of a suddenly more well informed electorate.
thats kinda cool. what they should have is a ‘price per word’ of each politician. to work out how much they’re being paid for each word they say in the dail