Joe Cooney
Written
3. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of children's passports that were issued in each of the first five months of 2026. [46068/26]
TDs / Joe Cooney
Joe Cooney
Portrait: © Houses of the Oireachtas (Oireachtas (Open Data) PSI Licence) · source file
555
questions asked
Oral and written, to government departments
13,177
words spoken in the chamber
Across 90 contributions
440
votes recorded
Each Yes, No or Abstained in a recorded vote
197
topics asked about
Across 19 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 555 in all
Dec 2024Oct 2026
Contributions to debates 90 in all
Dec 2024Oct 2026
Show as a table
| Month | Questions | Contributions |
|---|---|---|
| December 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| January 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| February 2025 | 15 | 2 |
| March 2025 | 15 | 0 |
| April 2025 | 45 | 0 |
| May 2025 | 35 | 6 |
| June 2025 | 40 | 8 |
| July 2025 | 48 | 4 |
| August 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 56 | 0 |
| October 2025 | 21 | 1 |
| November 2025 | 29 | 4 |
| December 2025 | 30 | 6 |
| January 2026 | 14 | 0 |
| February 2026 | 19 | 4 |
| March 2026 | 22 | 13 |
| April 2026 | 31 | 0 |
| May 2026 | 21 | 16 |
| June 2026 | 29 | 10 |
| July 2026 | 53 | 4 |
| August 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 22 | 4 |
| October 2026 | 10 | 8 |
Debates they spoke in most
Plus 88 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 Clare 29 November 2024 to now
- party Fine Gael 29 November 2024 to now
Joe Cooney
Written
48. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the amount of cigarettes and tobacco products seized by the Revenue Commissioners personnel at Shannon Airport in each of the first five months of 2026, in tabular form. [46061/26]
Joe Cooney
Written
129. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the staffing levels at the visa office in Beijing and Abu Dhabi; and the number of applications that were received in each of those offices in 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [46064/26]
Joe Cooney
Written
130. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the amount spent by An Garda Síochána on purchasing mountain bikes for its fleet in the years of 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [46065/26]
Joe Cooney
Written
131. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of new marked and unmarked Garda cars and vans added to the Garda dog unit fleet in each of the years 2024 to 2025 and to-date in 2026; the number of vehicles withdrawn from the fleet during same period, in tabular form. [46066/26]
Joe Cooney
Written
195. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the specialist supports available to persons with eating disorders residing in County Clare; and the locations of those supports and the distance individuals may be required to travel for assessment and or treatment. [46062/26]
Joe Cooney
Written
196. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the staffing budget allocation for University Hospital Limerick in each of the years of 2025 and 2026 to date, in tabular form. [46063/26]
Joe Cooney
Written
616. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the 18.5 hours limit for carers who are undertaking postgraduate education and advanced professional upskilling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45043/26]
Joe Cooney
Written
858. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the work that has been undertaken within her Department or the HSE to evaluate the consistency of the Small Hospitals Framework 2013 with current clinical guidance, including national clinical programmes and Sláintecare-aligned models of care; if a review of the framework is planned and the reasons for that decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. …
Joe Cooney
Written
1051. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if, given the long delays experienced by some charities in having the sale of property approved; the number of staff within the office of the Charities Regulator; the vacancies within the office; whether staff levels are commensurate with delivering their duties in a reasonable timeframe; and if he will make a statement o…
Joe Cooney
Oral
12. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to outline if his Department has undertaken an impact assessment of the current high cost of electricity on the Government's own electrification and decarbonisation targets; the measures that are in place to ensure that the cost of necessary grid infrastructure investment does not fall disproportionately on domestic consumers; and if he …
Joe Cooney
Oral
38. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the steps being taken to ensure that retail electricity prices are brought to a level that makes electrification a genuinely affordable proposition for ordinary households, given the Government’s ambition to accelerate the electrification of Irish homes through heat pumps, electric vehicles, and other demand-side measures; and if he will…
Joe Cooney
Oral
69. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to provide an update on the basic income for the arts scheme, the number of applicants by county in tabular form; the timeline for approvals and to outline if each county will be given an equitable allocation of recipients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44127/26]
Joe Cooney
Written
118. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the current status of any application submitted in support of the Grand Départ of the Tour de France being considered for Counties Clare, Limerick and Galway, and the wider Wild Atlantic Way corridor; if any engagement has taken place with cycling and tourism bodies on the subject; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44128/26]
Joe Cooney
Oral
14. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if the Critical Infrastructure Bill 2026 will apply to wastewater projects irrespective of their scale or geographic location; if he will consider a programme-level designation for wastewater treatment infrastructure across the country rather than limiting fast-track status to individual large-sca…
Joe Cooney
Written
33. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation given that wastewater and waste management systems are explicitly identified within the Critical Infrastructure Bill 2026 as infrastructure enabling essential State functions, whether the Government will apply that designation to outstanding wastewater projects in County Clare where communities ha…
Joe Cooney
Written
145. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth the total costs incurred in Clare for land rental and prefab rental for primary and for post primary schools for the years 2020-2025; the total duration for which each school has had prefab accommodation; the comparison cost of long-term rental against the cost of permanent construction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40523/26]
Joe Cooney
Written
161. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will publish a breakdown of schools currently relying on temporary or modular accommodation and the duration for which that accommodation has been in place, by county; if her Department has a definition of ‘temporary accommodation’; if there is a policy timeline trigger at which a prefab unit must be replaced by a permanent structure; and if she…
Joe Cooney
Written
301. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if there are job creation targets at county and/or municipal district level for agencies under his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40924/26]
Joe Cooney
Written
302. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to consider implementing a dedicated tourism marketing support package for those towns and villages transitioning from housing BOTBs back to tourism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40927/26]
Joe Cooney
Written
375. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the amount of sport related grant funding allocated that remains unspent and the year those funds were allocated, by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40929/26]
Joe Cooney
Written
439. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration for information on the implementation of Grace's Law; the number of arrests made, prosecutions pending and convictions under the new legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40925/26]
Joe Cooney
Written
466. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the Protection of the Native Irish Honeybee Bill 2021; when the Bill is expected to progress further; if his Department is considering other legislation or mechanisms to protect the native Irish honeybee in the interim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40926/26]
Joe Cooney
Written
467. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for clarity on the forestry setback distances from utility cables; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40928/26]
Joe Cooney
Written
757. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the amount of RRDF funding allocated that remains unspent and the year that those funds were allocated, by local authority, in tabular form. [40930/26]