TDs / Michael Cahill

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Michael Cahill

Fianna Fáil Kerry TD in this Dáil since 29 November 2024

Official Oireachtas profile

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3,207
questions asked
Oral and written, to government departments
41,594
words spoken in the chamber
Across 178 contributions
414
votes recorded
Each Yes, No or Abstained in a recorded vote
392
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 3,207 in all

Dec 2024Oct 2026

Contributions to debates 178 in all

Dec 2024Oct 2026
Show as a table
MonthQuestionsContributions
December 2024 0 0
January 2025 52 0
February 2025 162 17
March 2025 132 6
April 2025 230 4
May 2025 121 14
June 2025 153 10
July 2025 220 14
August 2025 0 0
September 2025 216 8
October 2025 84 4
November 2025 230 8
December 2025 140 19
January 2026 189 14
February 2026 136 18
March 2026 159 6
April 2026 248 4
May 2026 201 7
June 2026 245 7
July 2026 129 2
August 2026 0 0
September 2026 115 11
October 2026 45 5

Debates they spoke in most

Plus 128 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 Kerry 29 November 2024 to now
  2. party Fianna Fáil 29 November 2024 to now
Michael Cahill Written 4 Feb 2026 · to Health
1065. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health her views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding vaping; her plans to address this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7820/26]
Michael Cahill Written 4 Feb 2026 · to Health
1176. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health when the long-awaited Killarney community hospital will open; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8600/26]
Michael Cahill Written 4 Feb 2026 · to Health
1185. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if she will consider the provision of suicide crisis assessment nurses in the Kerry area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8655/26]
Michael Cahill Written 29 Jan 2026 · to Agriculture
30. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will urgently address the compensation ceilings currently in place for TB reactors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6977/26]
Michael Cahill Written 29 Jan 2026 · to Finance
211. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the qualifying criteria for a primary medical certificate can be urgently reviewed as it is extremely prohibitive in many deserving cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7143/26]
Michael Cahill Written 29 Jan 2026 · to Housing
289. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the introduction of planning regulations to exempt detached modular homes and log cabins in back gardens from planning permission can be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7138/26]
Michael Cahill Written 29 Jan 2026 · to Housing
304. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if modular homes will be given favourable consideration for planning permission (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7204/26]
Michael Cahill Written 29 Jan 2026 · to Housing
305. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage as part of the solution to the housing crisis and in addition to allowing planning exemptions for modular homes in back gardens, to allow modular homes be given favourable consideration in the context of obtaining planning permission as a replacement for one off housing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the m…
Michael Cahill Written 29 Jan 2026 · to Health
440. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if a bed in a nursing home will be provided for a person in their own county (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7203/26]
Michael Cahill Written 29 Jan 2026 · to Health
441. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if a better system will be introduced that will cease the practice of providing nursing home beds that involve up to a five hour-plus round trip for families, friends and neighbours to visit loved ones in County Kerry; if the practice of sending Kerry patients to nursing homes outside the county could also cease immediately; and if she will make a statement on …
Michael Cahill Written 29 Jan 2026 · to Health
442. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for mental health services in County Kerry from 2020 to the end of 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7228/26]
Michael Cahill Written 29 Jan 2026 · to Health
443. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the length of time children waited for mental health services in County Kerry from 2020 to the end of 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7229/26]
Michael Cahill Written 29 Jan 2026 · to Health
462. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to expedite orthodontic treatment in respect of a child (details supplied); to confirm whether the HSE is refusing to approve replacement posts for retired orthodontists in the Cork/Kerry region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7335/26]
Michael Cahill Written 29 Jan 2026 · to Health
463. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if the HSE is refusing to approve replacement posts for now retired orthodontists in the Cork/Kerry region (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7337/26]
Michael Cahill Written 28 Jan 2026 · to Transport
23. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Transport to expedite funding for the main street and footpath through Cahersiveen town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6804/26]
Michael Cahill Written 28 Jan 2026 · to Finance
29. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he can examine a taxation matter raised in correspondence (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6884/26]
Michael Cahill Written 28 Jan 2026 · to Justice
121. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to urgently address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6725/26]
Michael Cahill Written 28 Jan 2026 · to Agriculture
153. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can urgently address the compensation ceilings currently in place for TB reactors, as an increasing number of farmers are suffering huge financial loses and must be compensated up to the current market value; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6886/26]
Michael Cahill Written 28 Jan 2026 · to Health
199. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if she will address the overcrowding in the accident and emergency department, and the trolley crisis, at University Hospital Kerry as a matter of priority by expediting the development of the new 108-bed block on the hospital campus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6791/26]
Michael Cahill Written 28 Jan 2026 · to Rural
229. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to consider additional LEADER Programme funding for County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7042/26]
Michael Cahill Written 28 Jan 2026 · to Rural
232. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if counties such as Kerry will receive additional LEADER funding than those counties that have underspent their allocation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6797/26]
Michael Cahill Written 28 Jan 2026 · to Rural
233. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to expedite, and give a detailed progress report in respect of, the rural regeneration scheme for Cahersiveen town in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6805/26]
Michael Cahill Written 28 Jan 2026 · to Rural
234. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to expedite, and give a detailed progress report in respect, of the rural regeneration scheme for Killorglin town in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6806/26]
Michael Cahill Written 27 Jan 2026 · to Transport
328. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Transport to urgently convene a meeting between Iarnród Eireann, Bus Éireann, the new owners of a centre (details supplied) and Kerry County Council to explore the possibility of bus and train passengers going through the centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6110/26]
Michael Cahill Written 27 Jan 2026 · to Housing
600. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to significantly increase the disabled persons grant allocation to County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7019/26]