143. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline the total expenditure by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) on external consultancy services over the past five years, by year, by SEAI business unit, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14742/25]
Topics / Departmental Bodies
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsDepartmental Bodies
745 questions from 84 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 22 October 2026.
745
questions
738 written, 7 oral
84
TDs have asked
11
parties and groups
Independents counted together
20
departments asked
This is one of the catch-all headings the Oireachtas uses for how a department runs rather than what a question is about, so it is left out of the range and focus figures.
Questions per month
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| Month | Questions |
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| January 2025 | 1 |
| February 2025 | 20 |
| March 2025 | 99 |
| April 2025 | 23 |
| May 2025 | 227 |
| June 2025 | 9 |
| July 2025 | 21 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 9 |
| October 2025 | 2 |
| November 2025 | 28 |
| December 2025 | 9 |
| January 2026 | 24 |
| February 2026 | 63 |
| March 2026 | 13 |
| April 2026 | 97 |
| May 2026 | 60 |
| June 2026 | 3 |
| July 2026 | 13 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 18 |
| October 2026 | 6 |
Who asks, by party
The party each TD belonged to on the day, in alphabetical order. Parties differ a lot in size, and members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them, so this shows who raised it, not how much a party cares about it.
The TDs who asked most
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The questions
153. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a list of consultant reports commissioned by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland over the past five years, including the title, author, date of completion, the cost of each report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14903/25]
156. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide details of the annual funding amount allocated for Offaly to a scheme (details supplied) from 2019 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14951/25]
157. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide details of the annual funding amount used for Offaly (details supplied) from 2019 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14953/25]
415. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his Department is planning to disband the Retail Forum Digitalisation and Skills Subgroup; if so, to justify this decision in light of the Programme for Government commitments to invest in digital skills at all levels and to increase basic digital intensity among SMEs; and if he will make a statement on th…
173. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to confirm the names of the members of his Department's strategic economic advisory panel; how many times the panel has met; if he will provide me with its terms of reference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13419/25]
180. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of his Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13575/25]
197. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of his Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13573/25]
209. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of his Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13570/25]
241. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Transport to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of his Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13584/25]
283. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Finance to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of his Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13574/25]
297. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of his Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13580/25]
314. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of his Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13572/25]
324. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of WTE staff, by job title, based in IDA offices located in northern California and in New York as of 18 March 2025, and as of 31 March 2022, in tabular form. [13837/25]
357. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of her Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13571/25]
430. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of his Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13583/25]
451. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of his Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13578/25]
510. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of his Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13582/25]
552. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of his Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13579/25]
613. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of his Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13569/25]
661. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of her Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13585/25]
729. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of her Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13577/25]
878. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of his Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13576/25]
896. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide a list of regulatory, appeal or other bodies, either funded by or under the remit of his Department, which are quasi-judicial in nature. [13581/25]
104. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Taoiseach the number of members of boards in each body under the aegis of his Department who have a professional accounting qualification, for each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [12162/25]