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Carol Nolan

Independent Offaly TD in this Dáil since 29 November 2024

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1,635
questions asked
Oral and written, to government departments
52,708
words spoken in the chamber
Across 165 contributions
317
votes recorded
Each Yes, No or Abstained in a recorded vote
323
topics asked about
Across 20 departments

From the Dáil chamber only: committee meetings are not in this archive.

What they ask about

The subject headings the Oireachtas filed their questions under.

Who they ask

The departments their questions were addressed to.

Month by month

Low months are usually recesses, when the Dáil does not sit. The archive runs to 22 October 2026.

Questions asked 1,635 in all

Dec 2024Oct 2026

Contributions to debates 165 in all

Dec 2024Oct 2026
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MonthQuestionsContributions
December 2024 0 0
January 2025 31 0
February 2025 111 8
March 2025 51 7
April 2025 39 9
May 2025 76 15
June 2025 34 15
July 2025 50 6
August 2025 0 0
September 2025 53 8
October 2025 100 10
November 2025 75 11
December 2025 35 7
January 2026 80 8
February 2026 213 9
March 2026 35 4
April 2026 109 9
May 2026 212 13
June 2026 108 7
July 2026 58 5
August 2026 0 0
September 2026 55 10
October 2026 110 4

Debates they spoke in most

Plus 59 contributions in the regular slots, such as Leaders' Questions and Priority Questions. Speech from the chair is not counted.

Asked about similar topics

Worked out by computer from the subject headings of each TD's questions, giving more weight to headings few TDs use. It shows shared subjects, not shared views.

Party, constituency and offices

  1. constituency Offaly 29 November 2024 to now
  2. party Independent 29 November 2024 to now
Carol Nolan Written 14 May 2025 · to Health
214. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health to provide the current number of referrals to adult primary care OT service; the number of vacancies within the adult primary care OT service; the number of persons on a waiting list for the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24757/25]
Carol Nolan Written 14 May 2025 · to Further and Higher Education
231. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if the Turn to Teaching Programme in Maynooth will proceed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24555/25]
Carol Nolan Written 13 May 2025 · to Foreign
289. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to list all international treaties to which the State has been a party from 1 January 2020 to date in 2025; to specify which of these treaties, if any, have been the subject of debates or scrutiny in either Dáil Éireann or the Oireachtas committees as to their contents, to which the Minister has contributed; and if he will make a st…
Carol Nolan Written 13 May 2025 · to Environment
306. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide the commissioning date and the annual energy output for the renewable electricity support scheme wind farm projects (details supplied) located in County Offaly, broken down by quarter, for each year since commissioning; the community benefit fund total for each operating year, in tabular form; and if he will make a s…
Carol Nolan Written 13 May 2025 · to Environment
307. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide the community benefit fund accounts for the renewable electricity support scheme wind farm projects (details supplied), for each year since commissioning; if he will advise if the community benefit fund accounts will be made publicly available on the SEAI-administered online register, as prescribed by the RESS Good P…
Carol Nolan Written 13 May 2025 · to Finance
488. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Finance to state the arrangements which apply to setting the salary of the CEO of NAMA; whether ministerial approval is required for this salary level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24330/25]
Carol Nolan Written 13 May 2025 · to Social
820. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware of concerns among childcare sector workers that they must claim jobseeker’s benefit for every school holiday; if there are plans to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24205/25]
Carol Nolan Written 13 May 2025 · to Social
828. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection whether her Department monitors the employment status of those who have been granted Irish citizenship in recent years; if so, the number of adults who were granted citizenship from 2020 to date in 2025 currently in receipt of either jobseekers benefit or jobseekers allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24327/25]
Carol Nolan Written 13 May 2025 · to Social
829. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of non-nationals who are currently in receipt of either jobseekers benefit or jobseekers allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24328/25]
Carol Nolan Written 13 May 2025 · to Justice
902. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice to outline the current national policy in relation to family reunification for those granted asylum; the degree of familial relationship to which the policy applies; the number of individuals who have come to Ireland following the granting of such applications from 2019 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24326/25]
Carol Nolan Written 13 May 2025 · to Health
1121. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if a decision was taken at Department of Health and HSE level, prior to the abortion law changing in 2019, to adopt an approach to pregnancy counselling services, such as including the withholding of public funding from any pregnancy counselling agency not prepared to engage in abortion referral under the new legal regime proposed in 2018; and if she will make a …
Carol Nolan Written 13 May 2025 · to Health
1122. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if the figure of 10,021 payments for completed medical abortions (details supplied) represents the number of payments to general practitioners, family planning clinics and women's health clinics in 2023, but not to medical abortions provided in hospitals for women between 9 and 12 weeks' gestation; the number of such hospital medical abortions in 2023; the estima…
Carol Nolan Written 13 May 2025 · to Health
1123. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the way in which a reported figure of 10,021 early-pregnancy abortions in 2023 (details supplied) can be reconciled with a figure of 9,876 early-pregnancy abortions in the Department of Health abortion report for the same year, given that the figure of 9,876 includes early-pregnancy abortions in hospitals but the figure of 10,021 does not; the number of early-pre…
Carol Nolan Written 13 May 2025 · to Health
1124. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health her views on whether the current system of reporting abortion numbers based on abortion notifications from general practitioners, family planning clinics and women’s health clinics is seriously inadequate, with a large number of notifications being received late or not at all, and many of those that are received being incomplete; to undertake to change the system…
Carol Nolan Written 13 May 2025 · to Health
1125. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if she will include HSE abortion payment data for 2024 in the Department of Health abortion report due to be published end June 2025, specifically the number of payments of €300 to general practitioners, family planning clinics and women's health clinics in 2024, and the number of €100 payments to these same providers for post-hospital medical abortion patients w…
Carol Nolan Written 7 May 2025 · to Taoiseach
2. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Taoiseach to confirm that all Ministers of State within his Department have had their ministerial powers delegated to them [22140/25]
Carol Nolan Written 7 May 2025 · to Foreign
16. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to confirm that all Ministers of State within his Department have had their ministerial powers delegated to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22132/25]
Carol Nolan Written 7 May 2025 · to Environment
30. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to confirm that all Ministers of State within his Department have had their ministerial powers delegated to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22130/25]
Carol Nolan Written 7 May 2025 · to Environment
34. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide information regarding reports on wind turbine noise, and when he expects changes to the current guidelines; to clarify his support for increased protections for persons adversely affected by wind turbine noise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22469/25]
Carol Nolan Written 7 May 2025 · to Defence
44. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence to confirm that all Ministers of State within his Department have had their ministerial powers delegated to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22127/25]
Carol Nolan Written 7 May 2025 · to Transport
54. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Transport to confirm that all Ministers of State within his Department have had their ministerial powers delegated to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22142/25]
Carol Nolan Written 7 May 2025 · to Finance
101. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Finance to confirm that all Ministers of State within his Department have had their ministerial powers delegated to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22131/25]
Carol Nolan Written 7 May 2025 · to Public Expenditure
124. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to confirm that all Ministers of State within his Department have had their ministerial powers delegated to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22137/25]
Carol Nolan Written 7 May 2025 · to Enterprise
135. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to confirm that all Ministers of State within his Department have had their ministerial powers delegated to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22129/25]
Carol Nolan Written 7 May 2025 · to Education
170. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to confirm that all Ministers of State within her Department have had their ministerial powers delegated to them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22128/25]