Parliamentary questions

Questions

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

Which departments get asked most

Department names as the record prints them. Some changed in June 2025.

  • Health 28,099
  • Education 14,289
  • Transport 11,442
  • Justice 10,062
  • Housing 9,227
  • Children 8,729
  • Social 6,094
  • Finance 5,938
  • Climate 3,950
  • Foreign 3,893
All 20 departments
DepartmentQuestionsOralWritten
Health 28,09914527,954
Education 14,28914514,144
Transport 11,44215311,289
Justice 10,0621359,927
Housing 9,2271609,067
Children 8,7291428,587
Social 6,0941485,946
Finance 5,9381535,785
Agriculture 4,9321364,796
Enterprise 4,0821523,930
Climate 3,9501303,820
Foreign 3,8931903,703
Public Expenditure 3,7601673,593
Further and Higher Education 3,4601403,320
Taoiseach 2,6871,5131,174
Defence 2,6041792,425
Culture 2,4991472,352
Rural 2,3751402,235
Environment 1,029261,003
Tourism 70331672

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14 Oct 2026 to 12 Nov 2026

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Jen Cummins Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
622. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the funding in terms of capitation and capital works available to a school (details supplied). [35023/26]
James Geoghegan Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
623. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will outline, all primary and secondary schools in Dublin 2, Dublin 4, Dublin 6 and Dublin 6W with special classes; those under consideration, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35041/26]
James Geoghegan Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
624. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to review correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35042/26]
Claire Kerrane Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
625. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will bring forward the announcement of Schools to be awarded funding under the climate action summer works scheme 2026 (category 7 climate action & windows) rather than waiting until the end of the year, to support schools that are waiting on and relying on this funding for works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35050/26…
Eoghan Kenny Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
626. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Youth the basis on which the current levy arising from public expenditure overruns is being calculated and applied to her Department’s Vote; whether any categories of expenditure, including pay, pensions or staffing-related costs, are exempt from the levy within her Department; and if she will provide a breakdown of the areas against which the levy is bein…
Michael Healy-Rae Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
627. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Youth if a remote area grant can be offered (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35133/26]
Michael Cahill Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
628. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide emergency funding to a school in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35191/26]
Paul Lawless Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
629. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason a school (details supplied) with an exceptionally high concentration of socio-economic disadvantage and complex educational needs was excluded from both DEIS and DEIS Plus, and whether she will review this decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35198/26]
Paul Lawless Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
630. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason non-DEIS schools are excluded from the DEIS appeals process; the mechanism that exists for a school (details supplied) to seek reconsideration of its exclusion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35199/26]
Paul Lawless Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
631. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will conduct a needs-based assessment of a school (details supplied) in light of its exceptionally high level of concentrated disadvantage and the absence of DEIS supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35200/26]
Paul Lawless Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
632. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Education and Youth the interim supports that can be provided immediately to a school (details supplied) pending any future DEIS review, given the school’s severe resource shortages, food insecurity among pupils, and high levels of complex need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35201/26]
Paul Lawless Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
633. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether the DEIS profiling model will be reformed to account for rural schools with non-local disadvantaged enrolments, such as a school (details supplied), where area-based indicators do not reflect the actual pupil population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35202/26]
Seán Ó Fearghaíl Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
634. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Youth when her Department expects refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) to move to construction phase; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35215/26]
Seán Ó Fearghaíl Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
635. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Youth when her Department expects refurbishment works at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35216/26]
Seán Ó Fearghaíl Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
636. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Youth the steps her Department is taking to support a school (details supplied), which has been without broadband for over six weeks; the interim measures being put in place to ensure continuity of teaching, learning, school administration and assessments; if she will liaise with the Department of Communications to urgently resolve the issue; and if sh…
Cathal Crowe Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
637. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will list and name the primary and secondary schools that are constituted entirely of modular / prefabricated buildings; the way she proposes to ensure that these schools are provided with fit-for-purpose permanent buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35244/26]
Cathal Crowe Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
638. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth if modular / prefabricated buildings are eligible for Emergency Works Grant supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35245/26]
Cathal Crowe Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
639. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason an application for a new school building (details supplied) has faltered; the reason the local Education and Training Board have not been given direction to proceed to design; the reason the school is repeatedly asked to furnish additional reports and documents without these being acknowledged or leading to any significant developments in …
Cathal Crowe Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
640. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware that a rat infestation led to structural damage and ultimately to collapse of a floor in a prefabricated primary classroom in a school (details supplied); the way in which her Department proposes to support the school to rid themselves of decrepit and unsafe prefabricated classrooms, with replacement by permanent buildings; and if she…
Cathal Crowe Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
641. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth if a site has been selected for a new building for a primary school (details supplied) in County Clare; the efforts her Department has made to date, to legally secure said site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35248/26]
Cathal Crowe Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
642. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will, as a matter of absolute urgency, send a team of experts from her Department to survey on health and safety grounds, the existing buildings of a primary school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35249/26]
Cathal Crowe Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
643. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of the concerning fact that consultant engineers are, of late, refusing to take work relating to school building projects because of delays in being paid for their works and the requirement for them to often send and re-send drawings and documentation to her Department which do not always get officially acknowledged and often have no …
Eoin Ó Broin Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
644. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education and Youth regarding the recently announced extension of HSCL provision, the criteria and data metrics that formed the basis of the decision to include or exclude schools in the extension of the scheme. [35251/26]
Louis O'Hara Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
645. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she has any plans to mandate epilepsy training as part of teacher training curriculum; whether her Department has any plans to mandate epilepsy training for all qualified teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35271/26]
Malcolm Byrne Written 12 May 2026 · to Education
646. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current status of an application for a SEN classroom for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35310/26]