I hate to poke my fingers in the eternal wound of Dublin media vs people who eat their dinner in the middle of the day. But I do love this picture. Via Enda Kenny on Twitter.

From tomorrow, the amount of time that our politician’s spend in Leinster House will be tracked by electronic fobs. For the first time outside of votes, time spent in the house will be tracked in a purpose-built system.

This is one of the first moves in tracking value for money for work done by our public representatives. The Department of Finances published expense schedules last month to reform the way that TDs and senator claim for expenses incurred. TDs and senators have claimed up to €24 million in expenses and allowances in the past three years.

Interesting to see Newstalk adopt a Liveblog-esque mish-mash of streaming video from Oireachtas.ie, in-widget Facebook statusing and Twitter updates all collected in one spot. Not sure about the size of the widget but it’s nice to see it. They are even using the hashtag #budget10!

Just hope they change the livestream to the Dáil because the Seanad isn’t due to speak on the Budget until Thursday afternoon!

We’re liveblogging Budget 2010 with Irish Election, Irish Economy, Suzy Byrne and loads of other political animals.

If you’re a Twitterer, you can marked your tweets with the hashtag ‘#budget10′ to join in. If you’d rather interact via the Liveblog – you can comment in the frame below or go to the ScribbleLive page of the Liveblog. Enjoy!

(If you are reading this in a feed reader, do click through and open the blog post in a page to see the liveblog frame.)