TD's - They Work For You
BoingBoing - reports on a UK website TheyyWorkForYou.com it scrapes the UK Parliamentary record and then turns the debates into an easily searched means of keep tabs on your MP -- and to turn your MP's deeds into the basis for discussion and political activism.
My experience with the irlgov.ie website is that we badly need this facility.
Well, now the TheyWorkForYou team have released the source-code for their app under the GPL, and they're also publishing raw XML feeds of their data-sources for you to mix and munge.
Liam, You might be interested in this site : http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/ Contains debates up to June 2003., in the Dail and the Seanad.