510. Deputy Martin Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the budget allocation for social farming from the rural innovation and development fund from within his Department in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [27167/25]
Topics / Departmental Budgets
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsDepartmental Budgets
259 questions from 71 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 20 October 2026.
259
questions
256 written, 3 oral
71
TDs have asked
11
parties and groups
Independents counted together
19
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 | 6 |
| March 2025 | 6 |
| April 2025 | 9 |
| May 2025 | 13 |
| June 2025 | 21 |
| July 2025 | 32 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 8 |
| October 2025 | 7 |
| November 2025 | 12 |
| December 2025 | 12 |
| January 2026 | 45 |
| February 2026 | 10 |
| March 2026 | 3 |
| April 2026 | 8 |
| May 2026 | 19 |
| June 2026 | 15 |
| July 2026 | 13 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 11 |
| October 2026 | 8 |
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
165. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Health the level of overall funding provided by her Department to the HSE South, Cork and Kerry, for distribution to Section 39 agencies from 2020 to 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26160/25]
567. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the supplementary estimate for housing will be published and brought to the Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage. [25953/25]
660. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the budget allocation for Criminal Assets Bureau in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [25366/25]
730. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how the €5 million from budget 2025 is being allocated to the Forgotten Farmers; the timeline for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25465/25]
31. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the current and future funding of Uisce Éireann, whether additional capital funding will be allocated following the revelation that the €1 billion announced as part of budget 2025 was not for additional capital investment; what additional funding the Government intends to provide to cover the shortfall from this; and if …
33. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that the €1 billion of funding for Uisce Éireann in budget 2025 was not additional money; and to set his response to the utility's request for an additional €2 billion in capital funding out to 2030, including €1.7 billion for urban capacity upgrades and €300 million for rural capacity upgrades, to facilitate the Governme…
71. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the allocation of €1 billion in additional capital investment to Uisce Éireann announced as part of budget 2025 on 1 October is additional funding or part of its existing funding requirements; his understanding of how this funding is being allocated to non-domestic capital investment as outlined in the budget announcement for remedia…
238. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to detail the source of the non-voted €490 million allocated to Uisce Éireann under the heading 'internal’ (income-own resources) in the published Revised Estimates for 2025; if this funding is intended to be spent in 2025 exclusively or if it is to be spent over a number of years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24…
239. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to detail the source of the non-voted €514 million allocated to Uisce Éireann under the heading 'external’ (borrowings-EU receipts) in the published Revised Estimates for 2025; if this funding is intended to be spent in 2025 exclusively or if it is to be spent over a number of years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. […
240. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the total expenditure allocated to Uisce Éireann for its public capital programme in each of the past five years, broken down by voted Exchequer and non-voted other sources, in tabular form. [24984/25]
272. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a roadmap over the next number of Budgets in which carers in receipt of the carer’s allowance can expect the income disregards for the payment to increase; the date by which the means-test will then be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21990/25]
148. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of the capital budget that has been spent in the first four months of 2025; if he will provide same figures for the corresponding period in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [21460/25]
271. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the percentage of the capital budget allocation for his Department that was spent in the first four months of 2025; If he will provide the same figures for the corresponding period in the years of 2024 and 2023, in tabular form. [21462/25]
140. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will report on the proportion of the Department’s budget that is allocated to private service providers in the disability sector; and if she believes the outsourcing of vital care to for-profit entities is in the best interest of children and families. [21012/25]
812. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capital budget allocation to her Department in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [16879/25]
1060. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide a breakdown of the budgetary allocations or indicative funding figures issued to each of the higher education and research bodies (details supplied). [16816/25]
186. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Transport if he will report on the capital carryover in his Department in each of the years 2015 to date; the proportion of the total capital allocation that had to be carried in each of those years; the proportion of the capital allocation of that year that was carried over from the previous year; the reasons for capital carryover in each of those years; the measures he is …
486. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding provided by the Exchequer to Uisce Éireann for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; the budget allocation for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15591/25]
708. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the capital budget or total capital spend at Beaumont Hospital in each of the years 2018 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15060/25]
709. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the capital budget or total capital spend at the Mater Hospital in each of the years 2018 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15061/25]
434. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the percentage of the 2024 capital budget allocated to Fáilte Ireland that was actually spent; and if any underspent capital budget funding of 2024 was transferred to the 2025 capital budget allocation. [13839/25]
869. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of persons in receipt of housing assistance payments at the end of each of the past ten years. [11310/25]
870. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount paid in housing assistance payments in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [11311/25]
1012. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the total budget allocation to the National Advocacy Service for People with Disabilities in each of the years since 2011, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11243/25]