We're Ready For The Next General Election

Don't worry.....we won't be out there knocking at your door any time soon.....

No, what we mean is that we have now installed a new programme in our VisionTime system at the Irish Houses of Parliament (Oireachtas) in Dublin.

MultiTime's system has been in place since June 2010.

The system facilitates the Members (Deputies and Senators) at both the Lower and Upper Houses to confirm attendance, so as to match against expenses records.

This is by Members swiping at VisionTime devices located throughout the Houses.
 

However, this latest and additional software programme, now calculates and displays attendance counts for any permutation of "attendance periods".
 

So, for example, in 2011, our system has completed the attendance count for the for the Members in the previous Parliament, the lower House, which finished it's term in February. So the system has already started a new count after the March General election after which Members took their new seats. By comparison the new Senate has yet to sit.  However the new attendance count will happen there too and very soon.

This is once the votes from the current Senate election is complete, the Senators take their seats too and start recording at the system.

Then later during the lifetimes of either the Dail (Parliament) or Seanad (Senate), the system will automatically cater for new counting possibilities that might emerge. For instance, Members might retire.  Maybe a Member from the Senate might swap to the Parliament (Dail) to cover a vacancy after a bye-election?

Then also the Speaker (Ceann Comhairle) who has a unique count, which transcends Parliaments. For example, the Speaker in the previous Dail/Parliament term, will always brings his/her count un-interrupted into the new Dail/Parliament term. This is unlike any other Member.

In the Dail/Parliament term that just recently started, a new Speaker was elected, thereby starting his unique count. In times past, however, it has been known that the Speaker from the previous Dail/Parliament to have remained in the post, by across the board agreement perhaps where the numbers may have been tight for an incumbent Government.    
 

These are just some examples.

So this is why we say that we at MultiTime are ready for the future attendance counts following any election!