I want to pay tribute to Cara Darmody's determination on the assessments of need crisis and welcome Cara and her dad, Mark, here today. There are now over 18,000 children whose assessment of need is overdue. The Government is spending many millions of euro fighting in the courts some of these families who are trying to have their right to an assessment of need upheld. At the same time, the Government is imposing recr…
TDs / Liam Quaide
1,240
questions asked
Oral and written, to government departments
78,139
words spoken in the chamber
Across 330 contributions. Plus 21 contributions from the chair, not counted
414
votes recorded
Each Yes, No or Abstained in a recorded vote
215
topics asked about
Across 20 departments
From the Dáil chamber only: committee meetings are not in this archive.
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Who they ask
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Month by month
Low months are usually recesses, when the Dáil does not sit. The archive runs to 22 October 2026.
Questions asked 1,240 in all
Dec 2024Oct 2026
Contributions to debates 330 in all
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| Month | Questions | Contributions |
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| December 2024 | 0 | 1 |
| January 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| February 2025 | 49 | 17 |
| March 2025 | 42 | 7 |
| April 2025 | 122 | 5 |
| May 2025 | 49 | 17 |
| June 2025 | 75 | 30 |
| July 2025 | 51 | 30 |
| August 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 52 | 9 |
| October 2025 | 47 | 19 |
| November 2025 | 56 | 29 |
| December 2025 | 40 | 22 |
| January 2026 | 91 | 18 |
| February 2026 | 81 | 24 |
| March 2026 | 118 | 16 |
| April 2026 | 106 | 23 |
| May 2026 | 82 | 14 |
| June 2026 | 76 | 17 |
| July 2026 | 62 | 9 |
| August 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 31 | 8 |
| October 2026 | 9 | 15 |
Debates they spoke in most
Plus 195 contributions in the regular slots, such as Leaders' Questions and Priority Questions. Speech from the chair is not counted.
Asked about similar topics
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- constituency Cork East 29 November 2024 to now
- party Social Democrats 29 November 2024 to now
Investor courts are a serious threat to progressive public policy. They cast an ominous cloud over climate action at a time when climate action has never been more urgent or consequential.
Ratifying CETA would see the introduction of investor courts that bring no benefit to the Irish people but allow foreign companies to extract money from the Irish taxpayer based on their perceived loss of profits. The Government i…
The crisis in assessments of need sits within a much broader picture of chronic neglect, by successive Governments, of the disability sector generally and, within that, the front-line disability services and children's disability network teams, as well as, more egregiously, the primary care services. We cannot meaningfully address the crisis in assessments of need in the absence of a reckoning with that context and w…
8. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Taoiseach for a report on his recent meeting with the British Prime Minister. [67526/25]
When I asked the Taoiseach about flood relief for east Cork villages last week, he accused me of being sly in how I had raised the question. That adjective could be more fairly levelled at his British counterpart, Keir Starmer, who built his political career on the basis of being a human rights lawyer and unifier of the left. In power, he has enthusiastically supported the imprisonment of people for years who protest…
22. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Taoiseach for an update on his Department’s plans to co-ordinate a range of actions aimed at regulatory reform. [67527/25]
There was a health committee session last week on the regulation of counselling and psychotherapy. In standards it has published, CORU has adopted a position that is entirely at odds with the main representative groups of those disciplines, which will reduce supervision requirements and remove mandatory personal therapy for trainees. These changes, if implemented, will degrade professional standards and undermine pat…
7. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she has engaged, or plans to engage, with the UK authorities regarding the treatment and prosecution of members of Palestine Action and those who have expressed solidarity with the group; if she will raise concerns about the protection of the rights to peaceful protest, fair trial and humane conditions of detention; and if she will make a state…
Has the Minister, her immediate predecessor or anyone in her Department engaged with the UK authorities regarding the Palestine Action group, which was proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK Government in July? The group was blacklisted for instigating a number of direct action protests against weapons manufacturers involved in selling arms to Israel in the context of its campaign of genocide and ethnic cle…
The UK Government has, in an Orwellian inversion of truth, conflated protest against genocide with terrorism through its proscription of the Palestine Action group, placing it, absurdly, on the same blacklist as organisations such as al-Qaeda and ISIS. Since the Palestine Action group has been designated a terrorist organisation, at least 2,300 people have been arrested according to the group Defend Our Juries, and a…
The acclaimed and best-selling Irish author, Sally Rooney, was unable to collect her recent Sky Arts award for literature in person as she did not feel safe entering the UK due to the risk of arrest for her public support of Palestine Action. She has even had to cancel all future public engagements in the UK and has expressed concerns that because of her intention to support Palestine Action financially, the availabi…
Yesterday, residents of Mogeely, Castlemartyr, Killeagh and Rathcormac presented to the Oireachtas petitions committee on the infuriating lack of progress on flood relief for their villages. When I raised their situation with the Taoiseach in late October, he responded in an almost disdainful tone, as if I was asking a naive question. He said: "The Midleton flood relief scheme is a complicated scheme. The Deputy must…
It might be good to revisit.
When will there be action?
10. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Northern Ireland will next meet. [65438/25]
27. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the programme plan for his Department’s new disability unit for 2025-2027. [65439/25]
I commend People Before Profit on its motion. The obstruction of the Occupied Territories Bill for the past six years since it was passed by a majority of TDs has shown up the utter hypocrisy of the Government when it speaks of the rule of international law, of the sanctity of human rights and of the importance of protecting our democracy from interference by nefarious regimes such as Russia. There was a cynical show…
12. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on water quality will next meet. [63177/25]
I know the Taoiseach will reject the claim that rural Ireland is being left behind by his Government but many residents of the village of Ballyhooly in my constituency beg to differ. They have good reason to. The very basic need for a consistent supply of water to drink, bathe in or use in appliances such as dishwashers and showers has been denied to them for many years. Residents in Ballyhooly have to deal with extr…
26. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Taoiseach for a report on the work of the shared island unit. [63178/25]
In recent times we have seen an alarming escalation in racist violence against immigrants and minority communities both North and South of this island. According to An Garda Síochána statistics, race crimes and related incidents rose by 24% between 2021 and 2024. There were similar increases in such crimes in the North between July 2024 and June of this year. Amnesty International has described this period in the Nor…
The crisis in primary care services for young people was back in the news again this week. It took persistent follow-up to parliamentary questions from me earlier this year to reveal its scale. The fact is that children throughout the country were routinely waiting several and sometimes many years, not just for psychology but for occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and physiotherapy. The longest wait in…
Not in these services.
No.
The Taoiseach is not-----