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 27,342
  • Education 13,896
  • Transport 11,008
  • Justice 9,783
  • Housing 9,020
  • Children 8,676
  • Finance 5,833
  • Social 5,830
  • Foreign 3,856
  • Climate 3,825
All 20 departments
DepartmentQuestionsOralWritten
Health 27,34214527,197
Education 13,89614513,751
Transport 11,00813910,869
Justice 9,7831359,648
Housing 9,0201608,860
Children 8,6761298,547
Finance 5,8331535,680
Social 5,8301355,695
Agriculture 4,8881364,752
Enterprise 3,8781393,739
Foreign 3,8561903,666
Climate 3,8251143,711
Public Expenditure 3,6851673,518
Further and Higher Education 3,3941273,267
Taoiseach 2,5851,4361,149
Defence 2,4991622,337
Culture 2,3761472,229
Rural 2,3311402,191
Environment 1,029261,003
Tourism 70331672

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23 Sep 2026 to 22 Oct 2026

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Richard Boyd Barrett Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Housing
363. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current plans for retrofitting all local authority homes including the timeline and estimated cost per year; the number of homes retrofitted for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67170/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Housing
365. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the construction cost of building one, two, three, four bed homes on local authority land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67149/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Housing
366. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of planned Part V purchases under Housing for All, by year; the projected cost per unit for one-, two-, three- and four-bed homes; and the number planned to be purchased for each year, by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67148/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Housing
367. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number and size of homes bought by each local authority in 2021 and the first two quarters of 2022; and the cost of these homes to each local authority; and to make a statement on the matter. [67147/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Housing
368. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of acquiring one-, two-, three- and four-bed homes outside Dublin under the buy and renew scheme; and to make a statement on the matter. [67146/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Housing
369. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of acquiring one, two, three and four bed homes in Dublin under the buy and renew scheme; and to make a statement on the matter. [67145/26]
Ryan O'Meara Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Housing
370. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures in place to assess the impact of a high concentration of renewable energy infrastructure within a rural area; the person or body responsible for carrying out that assessment; and the extent to which the landscape and local community are taken into consideration. [67094/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Housing
371. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost to the exchequer of increasing income limits for social housing by 20%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67152/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Housing
372. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full cost of retrofitting all local authority owned homes by 2030; the estimated average cost per home in 2023; the number to be carried out in 2026; and to make a statement on the matter. [67167/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Housing
373. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full-year cost of increasing HAP limits to the average cost of rents in each area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67165/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Housing
374. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full-year cost of the Traveller Accommodation Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67162/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Housing
375. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of the emergency accommodation centres for homeless people in Dublin; the number of places in each; the cost of running each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67161/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Housing
376. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the estimated full-year cost of providing emergency accommodation for homeless people in Dublin in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67158/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Housing
377. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the estimated full-year cost of providing emergency accommodation for homeless people in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67157/26]
Louis O'Hara Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Social
378. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Social Protection if the humanitarian assistance scheme is still open for applications from Storm Éowyn. [66348/26]
Pa Daly Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Social
379. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the income supports available to people who are unable to work, or whose capacity to work is significantly reduced, as a result of long Covid; and whether consideration has been given to the particular long-term financial impact of long Covid on affected individuals. [66317/26]
Michael Murphy Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Social
380. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the rationale for requiring a person undergoing a review of their disability allowance to provide details regarding other persons residing in their household, including the sources of income of those persons; the circumstances in which the income or financial circumstances of another household member, other than a spouse, civil partner or cohabitant,…
Michael Cahill Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Social
381. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Social Protection the assistance available to a school when no catering provider is willing or able to serve its area for school meals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66434/26]
Michael Cahill Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Social
382. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Social Protection the measures in place to ensure that small rural and Gaeltacht schools are not excluded from the school meals programme because of their location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66435/26]
Michael Cahill Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Social
383. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide additional funding or a different delivery model where the standard catering arrangements for school meals are not viable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66436/26]
Michael Cahill Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Social
384. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Social Protection the immediate solution that can be put in place for a school (details supplied) in order that the pupils can receive the same hot meals as children in other schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66437/26]
Pa Daly Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Social
385. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the assistance that can be provided to a school (details supplied) in a rural Gaeltacht area that is unable to access the hot school meals programme because it has been unable to secure a catering provider; and the measures available to ensure that small rural and Gaeltacht schools are not excluded from the programme due to difficulties securing a provider.…
Michael Healy-Rae Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Social
386. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection about the provision of hot school meals and the difficulties facing small rural and Gaeltacht schools in securing a catering provider (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66443/26]
Paul McAuliffe Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Social
387. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Social Protection the timeframe for when he or his Department expects to issue the next round of community services programme, CSP, funding for community organisations that initially expressed interest and were unsuccessful in the first round this year. [66457/26]
Naoise Ó Muirí Written 22 Sep 2026 · to Social
388. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the interaction between illness benefit, one-parent family payment and working family payment for parents who have dependent children and who are diagnosed with a terminal or life-limiting illness; and to consider measures to prevent a significant loss of household income when such parents are no longer able to work due to their ill…