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TDs ask ministers questions to get answers on the record, most of them in writing. Here is every one asked in the 34th Dáil, by the department it went to and the subject heading it was filed under. How questions work

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Matt Carthy Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
697. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the process for tracking voluntary departures of people who are subject to deportations order following unsuccessful applications for international protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25808/25]
Matt Carthy Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
698. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the number of deportations orders with regard to unsuccessful applications for international protection made in 2025 and in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25809/25]
Matt Carthy Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
699. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the number of international protection applicants in the State currently and in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25810/25]
Matt Carthy Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
700. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the number of international protection applicants housed in IPAS accommodation currently and in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25811/25]
Matt Carthy Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
701. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the number of international protection applicants in the State but not housed in IPAS accommodation currently and in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25812/25]
Matt Carthy Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
702. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the number of international protection applications that were unsuccessful in 2025 and in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25813/25]
Carol Nolan Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
703. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 902 of 13 May 2025, if the numbers approved for Family Reunification under Section 56 of the 2015 Act from 2019, up to 7 May 2025 refers to the number of applications approved or the numbers of persons granted permission to enter and reside in the state; if the latter, the total number of persons to enter and reside for each …
Aidan Farrelly Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
704. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of dogs currently in training to get into the Garda dog unit. [25850/25]
Aidan Farrelly Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
705. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice if he will clarify the extent to which gardaí who are not part of the dog handling unit are trained to deal with and-#or engage with dogs that are on the schedule of restricted breeds. [25851/25]
Aidan Farrelly Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
706. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of occasions that An Garda Síochána have hired out an external forensic archaeologist to carry out work on its behalf, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [25852/25]
Aidan Farrelly Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
707. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of horses currently in training to get into the Garda mounted unit. [25853/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
708. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of people that have availed of the Irish Refugee Protection Programme; the total cost to the State each year for the programme; the cost of the support that each refugee receives in total; and the cost on average for each person, since its inception, broken down by year and country of origin [25927/25]
Eoin Ó Broin Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
709. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice the functions being transferred from his Department to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; and when these functions will be transferred. [25930/25]
Ivana Bacik Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
710. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 26 March 2025 and his plans to engage with community representatives, if he will meet with representative groups (details supplied) on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25963/25]
Barry Ward Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
711. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice for a breakdown of the types of offences committed by minors that led to arrests over the period 2024 to date in 2025, by county and by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26004/25]
Robert O'Donoghue Written 20 May 2025 · to Agriculture
712. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the Government's position on the principle that farmers impacted by GAEC 2 environmental requirements should be compensated based on the principle of income forgone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25746/25]
Michael Collins Written 20 May 2025 · to Agriculture
713. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date on which all ACRES payments will be issued to those farmers struggling to pay bills at this time (details supplied). [25787/25]
Michael Collins Written 20 May 2025 · to Agriculture
714. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures being put in place to lower the levels of animal TB, given the high rates nationwide. [25788/25]
Naoise Ó Muirí Written 20 May 2025 · to Agriculture
715. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications under the solar capital investment scheme; the number of applications approved; the value of these approvals, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25076/25]
James O'Connor Written 20 May 2025 · to Agriculture
716. Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to consider facilitating the construction of a border control post (BCP) at the Port of Cork through which consignments of food, food contact materials, animals, feed and plants that are subject to increased import controls must enter the European Union, as the lack of a BCP facility is severely impacting the Port of Cork’s growth whil…
James O'Connor Written 20 May 2025 · to Agriculture
717. Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department would consider granting temporary derogations of three to six months length to customers of the Port of Cork to prevent disruption to seasonal goods imports for consignments needing physical inspection due to the current lack of a Border Control Post facility for agricultural checks at the port, as this would give the…
Alan Kelly Written 20 May 2025 · to Agriculture
718. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has spoken formally with his UK counterpart to date in 2025. [25351/25]
Cathy Bennett Written 20 May 2025 · to Agriculture
719. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has considered the potential benefits that the development of detection of infected animals among bovines vaccinated with the TB vaccine could play regarding Ireland's TB eradication programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25361/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 20 May 2025 · to Agriculture
720. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether a farmer has an option available to him or her to have blood samples taken by a registered veterinary surgeon from bovine animals that they own and are registered to the herd number where they are identified as herd keeper, and have those blood samples tested by an approved laboratory in the state for bTB; if there are any limit…
Peadar Tóibín Written 20 May 2025 · to Agriculture
721. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has approved any laboratories in or outside the State in which an individual farmer can have blood samples tested that have been provided by them at his or her own expense for the presence of bTB; to confirm how the approval status of these labs are made known to the farming public; and if he will make a statement on t…