TDs / Joanna Byrne

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Joanna Byrne

Sinn Féin Louth TD in this Dáil since 29 November 2024

Official Oireachtas profile

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473
questions asked
Oral and written, to government departments
55,881
words spoken in the chamber
Across 208 contributions
404
votes recorded
Each Yes, No or Abstained in a recorded vote
107
topics asked about
Across 15 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 473 in all

Dec 2024Oct 2026

Contributions to debates 208 in all

Dec 2024Oct 2026
Show as a table
MonthQuestionsContributions
December 2024 0 1
January 2025 4 0
February 2025 29 25
March 2025 38 14
April 2025 29 11
May 2025 20 10
June 2025 11 10
July 2025 34 6
August 2025 0 0
September 2025 12 5
October 2025 6 6
November 2025 25 4
December 2025 2 4
January 2026 43 15
February 2026 36 13
March 2026 23 12
April 2026 17 7
May 2026 32 13
June 2026 42 22
July 2026 18 3
August 2026 0 0
September 2026 40 5
October 2026 12 22

Debates they spoke in most

Plus 121 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 Louth 29 November 2024 to now
  2. party Sinn Féin 29 November 2024 to now
Joanna Byrne Written 20 Nov 2025 · to Culture
26. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to ensure that female sporting organisations receive appropriate attention, recognition and adequate funding from Sport Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64396/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 20 Nov 2025 · to Culture
67. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if he will act on the call by an organisation (details supplied) for the removal of the Israeli Basketball Association from the FIBA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64397/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 20 Nov 2025 · to Culture
479. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport when the sports capital and equipment programme and large-scale sport infrastructure fund will open for new applications for much-needed funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64399/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 20 Nov 2025 · to Culture
480. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport when he will publish the revised general scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023; if he will provide empirical data to back his statements that he will not be implementing all of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Culture, Communications and Sports recommendations on the Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6440…
Joanna Byrne Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Social
708. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Social Protection the schools across County Louth that operated a breakfast club for the academic school year 2024-2025 ; and the number of children in each school who received meals through each breakfast club, in tabular form. [63041/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Social
709. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Social Protection the schools who operated school meals scheme across County Louth for the academic school year 2024-2025; and the number of children in each school who received meals through the scheme, in tabular form. [63042/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Social
710. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of schools in County Louth that have applied for the school meals scheme to date in the current academic school year 2025-2026. [63043/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Social
711. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department intends to contact schools that do not apply for the extended school meals scheme in the current academic school year to determine the reasons they have not applied. [63044/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Health
1014. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health for an update on the progress being made on the Government’s commitment to provide a “statutory homecare scheme to allow people to stay in their own home for as long as possible."; the work undertaken on regional projections to inform the levels of service and support needed in each integrated healthcare area; and the engagement that has taken place with the int…
Joanna Byrne Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Health
1015. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of the allocation of home support service to persons living in County Louth for each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [63054/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Health
1016. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of the funding allocated to home support service in County Louth for each of the years 2020 to 2025 respectively, in tabular form. [63055/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Health
1017. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health the number of persons that have applied for home support service in County Louth to date in 2025; the number of applications that were for an increase in a home support service that was already in place; and the number of these applications which were refused. [63056/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Health
1018. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health the number of persons currently approved for home support service in County Louth that are awaiting provision of same. [63057/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Health
1019. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health the number of persons currently in hospital in County Louth experiencing a delayed discharge while awaiting provision of home support service; and the length of time these discharges have been delayed by. [63058/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Health
1020. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health the average waiting time for home support service in County Louth from the initial application to provision of same. [63059/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 21 Oct 2025 · to Culture
449. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to provide the Abridged Estimates Volume for Budget 2026 for Vote 33, including the provisional sub-head and programme level allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57013/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 9 Oct 2025 · to Justice
75. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide details of the daily occupancy levels and the possibility of re-opening a hotel (details supplied) for tourists, as well as facilitating IPAS applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53439/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 7 Oct 2025 · to Justice
391. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration for an update on a citizenship application submitted by a person (details supplied) in County Louth who is working as an anaesthesiologist since March 2023. [52986/25]
Joanna Byrne Oral 2 Oct 2025 · to Culture
1. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport in view of the global gindings report produced from the Double Pass audit into the League of Ireland academy system, which benchmarks Ireland significantly behind other nations, the plans he has initiated to support academy development; if he will commit to the significant funding increase in this area to allow our academies grow to meet …
Joanna Byrne Written 2 Oct 2025 · to Culture
27. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport his plans to ensure the provision of playing pitches, courts and sports facilities in new residential or mixed-use developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52249/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 2 Oct 2025 · to Culture
34. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport his plans to improve the condition of existing playing pitches, courts and sports facilities in community use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52250/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 23 Sep 2025 · to Health
681. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of the number of assaults reported/recorded against patients at Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, for each quarter for each of the years 2023 to 2025, inclusive, in tabular form; the number of these reported/recorded assaults that were investigated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50367/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 23 Sep 2025 · to Health
682. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the number of assaults reported/recorded against staff at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, for each quarter for each of the years 2023 to 2025, inclusive; the number of these reported/recorded assaults that were investigated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50368/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 18 Sep 2025 · to Culture
262. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the estimated first- and full-year cost of abolishing the television licence and funding public service media from the central Exchequer, in line with the Report of the Future of Media Commission published in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49485/25]
Joanna Byrne Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Public Expenditure
628. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to detail all the OPW-owned sites in County Louth. [45498/25]