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Follow a word over time

How often a word or phrase came up in the Dáil, month by month, across every debate and every parliamentary question. Counted for the whole chamber, never for any one TD.

In debates 13,104

Dec 2024Oct 2026
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Dec 202438 Read them
Jan 202552 Read them
Feb 2025811 Read them
Mar 2025538 Read them
Apr 2025662 Read them
May 2025922 Read them
Jun 2025679 Read them
Jul 2025691 Read them
Aug 20250
Sep 2025412 Read them
Oct 2025734 Read them
Nov 2025875 Read them
Dec 2025783 Read them
Jan 2026715 Read them
Feb 2026855 Read them
Mar 2026513 Read them
Apr 2026654 Read them
May 2026842 Read them
Jun 2026733 Read them
Jul 2026558 Read them
Aug 20269 Read them
Sep 2026448 Read them
Oct 2026580 Read them

In questions 10,496

Dec 2024Oct 2026
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Dec 20240
Jan 2025148 Read them
Feb 2025503 Read them
Mar 2025490 Read them
Apr 2025504 Read them
May 2025631 Read them
Jun 2025433 Read them
Jul 2025901 Read them
Aug 20250
Sep 2025568 Read them
Oct 2025505 Read them
Nov 2025881 Read them
Dec 2025458 Read them
Jan 2026653 Read them
Feb 2026566 Read them
Mar 2026582 Read them
Apr 2026587 Read them
May 2026683 Read them
Jun 2026658 Read them
Jul 2026286 Read them
Aug 20260
Sep 2026181 Read them
Oct 2026278 Read them

Counts are items matched, not times said: a contribution that uses the word five times counts once. Matching works like the site search, so "house" also finds "houses".