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A couple of months on, an update: the current system allows TDs to lodge PQs simply by sending the text to an designated email address. After the recess they’ll have to use a gated online system to supply questions instead, making it more cumbersome to lodge multiple interrelated questions at once.
Oireachtas officials had to overhaul the system for TDs to ask questions to clamp down on AI useThere has been a sharp rise in the number of PQs submitted this Dáil term, with departments saying they are under pressure to keep up with them.jrnl.ieGavan ReillyTDs are on course to table a record number of parliamentary questions this year – a vital tool of political accountability. But there’s a snag: the system isn’t designed to cope with that many, and officials tell me the volume is starting to choke them. This week’s column for @thejournal.ie: