Local election brief

A one-page, even-handed picture of a constituency: who represents it, what they have raised in the Dáil, and what the local data shows. Use td-briefing for a deep dive on one member.

Related projects: Contact Your Local TD (Unknown), Constituent (Owen Connor), Oireachtas Connect (Oireachtas Connect). Not affiliated; see ../_shared/inspirations.md.

Calling the tools

Steps name each operation as source/operation (e.g. oireachtas/oireachtas_search_members), using the typed tool name as the operation. On the default surface, run it with ireland_call, for example:

{ "source": "oireachtas", "operation": "oireachtas_search_members", "args": { "constituency": "Galway West" } }

If an argument shape is unclear, call ireland_describe with { "source", "operation" } first; it returns the schema and an example. search, fetch and nearby are top-level tools. If the server was added with ?toolsets=<ids> or ?toolsets=all, the typed tool can be called directly with the same args.

Steps

1. Find the constituency. Call ireland_resolve_place with the town, LEA, council or lat/lon. Keep codes.constituency (with seats), codes.lea and codes.county. An LEA or council can overlap several constituencies; each comes with its share of residents, so name them all. From a constituency name, pass "list": "lea" to get its LEAs, then go to step 2.
2. Sitting TDs. Call oireachtas/oireachtas_search_members with { "constituency": "<name>" }. List every member returned, in the API's order or alphabetically; never by party preference.
3. What each TD raised. For each member_code, call oireachtas/oireachtas_search_questions with { "member_code", "date_from": "<3 months ago>", "limit": 50 }. Count questions and group them by the minister or department addressed. Apply the same window and limit to every member.
4. Local context. cso/cso_area_profile for the county (2016 vs 2022 population); ppr/ppr_price_stats for the county or a main town over the last 12 months; optionally pobal/pobal_deprivation_search for named electoral divisions.
5. Recent Dáil votes (optional). oireachtas/oireachtas_get_votes with { "chamber": "dail", "date_from" } gives division tallies, not individual votes; do not attribute a vote to a TD from tallies.

Output format

Illustrative layout; the values are examples, not data.

## <Constituency> (<seats> seats) — brief as of <date>
**Sitting TDs:** <Name> (<Party>), ... (34th Dáil, Oireachtas Open Data)
| TD | Questions (<window>) | Most-addressed departments |
|---|---|---|
**Local data:** population <n> (Census 2022, change since 2016 <x%>); median sale <€> (PPR, <period>)
Sources
- ...

Rules

• Follow ../_shared/citations.md.
• Strict neutrality: same queries, windows and table columns for every member; no adjectives, ratings, predictions or claims about motives or effectiveness.
• Question counts measure activity in one channel only; say so. Ministers do not ask questions.
• Do not include personal contact details beyond the official Oireachtas record links.
• Constituency boundaries changed in 2023; data from before the 34th Dáil may use old boundaries.