The Government has bullied through a new hybrid speaking system into this Dáil. The Government created a speaking system with another designation and it wants to control that designation as well. It already has a majority in this Dáil, but it wants the majority of the designations as well. Incredibly, in the new Standing Orders, the Chief Whip of the Government will be able to control who asks the Government's questi…
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
We are 123 days since the general election and this Dáil has sat for 21 days.
There is not a committee functioning in this Dáil at the moment. No wonder we cannot build a hospital in this country without the prices ballooning out of control. No wonder there is not a house for a young person, and that young people have to emigrate to actually get a house. It is beyond time that we cop on to ourselves in this Chamber and see can we work to fix those issues. This issue has eclipsed the biggest ex…
Deputy Guirke spoke for one hour last year in the whole year.
The nature of policing is radically changing in this country. There is absolutely no doubt about that. That relationship between citizens and the Garda is actually crumbling. Much of the Garda's authority over decades has been the fact that gardaí have been able to work in partnership with positive relationships with local communities. That has meant the level of difficulties that have come to pass between police and…
While this Dáil drowned in dysfunction this week, the Government produced the EU migration implementation pact. While this Parliament was in paralysis this week, the Government sought to sneak through this highly controversial plan. As the Minister knows, this EU migration pact is opposed by a great number of the Irish people. The EU migration pact hands sovereignty on the issue of migration away from the Irish peopl…
I was not shouting at anybody during the week.
As usual.
Irish neutrality has been one of the most important policies of this country for the past 100 years. There will be a protest outside the Dáil on 9 April at 6 p.m. I welcome everybody, from all political persuasions, who favour and support Irish neutrality, to join the protest.
Arrogance is a key aspect of this Government. The Government is using the infrastructure of the Oireachtas to push through, force through and…
The Government talks about the need for stronger defence systems in this country. It spent €5 million on the National Cyber Security Centre following the attack on the HSE. In the same year, the Department of the Taoiseach spent €15 million on press statements. Three times the money was spent on press statements by one Department than all the money on the National Cyber Security Centre. The attack on the HSE has alre…
It is part of the Nice treaty.
Ireland is considered a tax haven internationally. Ireland is considered to be in the top ten tax havens internationally at the moment. That has happened because the Government has depended too much on corporation taxes and breaks in corporation taxes to attract foreign direct investment. We should be spending more time investing in infrastructure, including transport, ICT and educational infrastructure. We should be…
It is wrong that we have tenants living on the same street who are being treated differently. We should be able to recognise that. It is wrong that people in certain communities receive a financial advantage over others who are in the same accommodation scenarios as they are.
I am aware of a mother, for example, who has three children with autism. They live on the third floor of a block of flats in a town. She is in…
Cuirim fáilte roimh an mBille seo. Is deas an rud é an Bille a fheiceáil. Bhí m’ainm ar Bhille cosúil leis seo roimhe seo freisin. Is iontach an rud é go mbeidh guth na Gaeltachta le cloisteáil arís istigh go daonlathach san údarás. Tá sé sin an-tábhachtach ar fad. Tá níos mó eolais ag muintir na Gaeltachta ná aon duine eile mar gheall ar na dúshláin atá os a gcomhair agus na deiseanna atá ann dóibh freisin. Tá sé do…
Gabhaim buíochas le Páirtí an Lucht Oibre as ucht an rúin seo. Is rún maith é agus is mian liom tacaíocht a thabhairt dó.
I want to raise a couple of serious issues that are affecting both carers and people with disabilities. The children's disability service grant was announced with great fanfare by the then Minister of State, Anne Rabbitte, in October 2023. This grant was to urgently provide services and therapies…
It is in office since 2016.
Most Garda divisions now have fewer front-line officers than this time last year. That is a shocking headline currently throughout the country. In the 560 Garda stations that exist, the number has fallen from 12,045 gardaí to 11,928 gardaí. In County Waterford, the number of gardaí has fallen by 24. In counties Louth, Cavan and Monaghan, the number of gardaí has fallen by 48. In counties Roscommon and Longford, the n…
That is not gardaí.
The Taoiseach has a more positive disposition than anybody living in those towns without a Garda station, in reality. The Garda Inspectorate report on public order policing that he mentioned was published seven years ago. I have asked numerous Ministers for Justice if the recommendations of that report have been implemented. Three months after I asked the former Minister for Justice, Deputy Helen McEntee if they had …
Gardaí are taken out of Garda stations and put into a public order unit for a period.
When will the Government implement the recommendations of the Garda Inspectorate report in full?
I am talking about the 2019 Garda Inspectorate report that the Taoiseach mentioned.
They have not been implemented.
No.
He has briefed me in response to a parliamentary question.