There are multiple different reasons for these letters being sent out to the parents and they are contradictory.
TDs / Peadar Tóibín
2,463
questions asked
Oral and written, to government departments
174,842
words spoken in the chamber
Across 959 contributions
356
votes recorded
Each Yes, No or Abstained in a recorded vote
341
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 2,463 in all
Dec 2024Oct 2026
Contributions to debates 959 in all
Dec 2024Oct 2026
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| Month | Questions | Contributions |
|---|---|---|
| December 2024 | 0 | 1 |
| January 2025 | 17 | 4 |
| February 2025 | 141 | 56 |
| March 2025 | 96 | 68 |
| April 2025 | 126 | 60 |
| May 2025 | 82 | 37 |
| June 2025 | 112 | 42 |
| July 2025 | 136 | 61 |
| August 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 123 | 35 |
| October 2025 | 90 | 77 |
| November 2025 | 99 | 68 |
| December 2025 | 76 | 51 |
| January 2026 | 125 | 51 |
| February 2026 | 177 | 68 |
| March 2026 | 161 | 38 |
| April 2026 | 159 | 43 |
| May 2026 | 242 | 47 |
| June 2026 | 208 | 59 |
| July 2026 | 95 | 28 |
| August 2026 | 0 | 1 |
| September 2026 | 112 | 29 |
| October 2026 | 86 | 35 |
Debates they spoke in most
Plus 681 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
- constituency Meath West 29 November 2024 to now
- party Aontú 29 November 2024 to now
Incompetence is the defining characteristic of this Government, which has displayed a complete inability to deliver services.
In many areas, the USSR did a better job of delivering services than this Government. Right now, delivery of a whole range of services is grinding to a halt across the country. There are places in this country where you cannot get clean water from the taps. The electricity drops in 50,000 hom…
I, too, offer my deepest sympathies and the sympathies of Aontú to the family of Kevin Flatley. This is a disaster for Kevin's family and friends. It is also a disaster that 90 gardaí have lost their lives in the line of duty since the foundation of the State. Many families fear when their parent or loved one goes out to work that they might not see them come back. Yet, those people still commit to going out and work…
-----sure this never happens again, surely there is an urgency in seeing to it that the audit is completed as soon as possible. When will parents know what happened to their children?
There are major problems in the health service that the Government can act on now that have led, in part, to the difficulties we are suffering. There is not proper data collection in our health service at the moment. There is not a proper digital patient number in the health service. We do not have a good register of information in the health service. The capture of outcomes is not valued in the health service. We do…
It is not getting to the front line.
Not what is necessary.
Some 50,000 operations were cancelled-----
I have a Bill if all the leaders of the parties want to sign it.
Revenge for 2010.
Can I put on the record of the Dáil that I have sent an email to the leaders of all political parties to ask them to sign a Bill that would look for voting rights for Irish citizens in the North of Ireland? It is an issue bigger than any political party and we should not put party first in relation to it.
We received a parliamentary reply showing Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Ministers have quashed or overturned 4,000 d…
Yes, a ten-year period.
There are 140 that have been quashed this year so far.
It is 140 this year.
The actions have not changed from the Government.
Four hundred and sixteen were quashed last year and 500 the year before.
I will also raise the issue of an investigation in respect of Sean Brown. All of us in this Chamber have talked about what the GAA means to us. Sean Brown was murdered in large part because he was a GAA member and official. On the day he was abducted by loyalists, he was simply closing the gates of Bellaghy Wolfe Tones Gaelic Athletic Club in Derry. I welcome the Tánaiste's meeting with the family of Sean Brown. I be…
188. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of Naval Service ships in day-to-day use; the number docked due to understaffing; and the current location of these ships. [17270/25]
I have been told by people working within the health service that there are senior healthcare professionals at the moment, including some consultants, who are creating their own private companies and diverting patients from public waiting lists to their newly created private companies. It has been alleged in one case that a consultant, who created a private firm to read scans, used the hospital public waiting lists t…
I welcome the pause in insourcing, but we have to ask why this is happening. I spoke to staff in a hospital in the midlands today. They told me they had a red escalation over the bank holiday weekend, which is unheard of in the middle of summer. It is something that usually happens in December and January. They have been told to get patients out of the hospital and free up operations and other elective engagements so…
14. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [20955/25]
The Government is employing a new housing tzar with a salary of €430,000, which is an incredible figure. Because of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Independents, that may well be the salary someone needs to buy a home in many parts of this country at the moment. We have a record-breaking Government for all the wrong reasons. We have record house prices, rents and numbers of people on the homeless list at the moment. T…
That is not-----
It is absolutely phenomenal that we have two separate unpublished reports into two separate scandals involving CHI at the moment yet, despite that, the Government is still backing the board of CHI. We know that in one case children were subjected to unnecessary surgeries, where they did not meet the threshold for surgery. Separately, we know that poorly sourced springs or coils made from corrosive material were impla…
In fact, they do.