Departmental Budgets
An official questions-paper heading. 240 questions (2 oral, 238 written), first 2025-01-22, latest 2026-07-28.
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| Month | Questions |
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| Jan 2025 | 1 |
| Feb 2025 | 6 |
| Mar 2025 | 6 |
| Apr 2025 | 9 |
| May 2025 | 13 |
| Jun 2025 | 21 |
| Jul 2025 | 32 |
| Sep 2025 | 8 |
| Oct 2025 | 7 |
| Nov 2025 | 12 |
| Dec 2025 | 12 |
| Jan 2026 | 45 |
| Feb 2026 | 10 |
| Mar 2026 | 3 |
| Apr 2026 | 8 |
| May 2026 | 19 |
| Jun 2026 | 15 |
| Jul 2026 | 13 |
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| Department | Questions |
|---|---|
| Health | 37 |
| Public Expenditure | 25 |
| Education | 23 |
| Justice | 20 |
| Housing | 20 |
| Further and Higher Education | 14 |
| Children | 14 |
| Agriculture | 13 |
| Climate | 12 |
| Social | 12 |
| Finance | 11 |
| Transport | 9 |
| Enterprise | 8 |
| Defence | 6 |
| Rural | 6 |
| Foreign | 4 |
| Taoiseach | 3 |
| Culture | 2 |
| Tourism | 1 |
Debates under the same heading
Dáil debate sections whose official heading is exactly these words.
| Date | Debate section |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-28 | Departmental Budgets |
| 2026-02-05 | Departmental Budgets |
The questions
Darren O'Rourke
written
2025-06-12 · to Education
350. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated cost of extending DEIS supports to an additional 50 schools. [31574/25]
Maeve O'Connell
written
2025-06-12 · to Children
487. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report the budget for her Department’s disability, governance and performance unit. [31675/25]
Thomas Gould
written
2025-06-10 · to Housing
794. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the overall budget assigned to planned maintenance and stock surveys in each of the past five years. [29528/25]
Thomas Gould
written
2025-06-10 · to Housing
795. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of a stock survey per unit. [29530/25]
Rory Hearne
written
2025-06-10 · to Housing
856. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount in the capital budget as set out in table 9 of the Annual Progress Report 2025 that is designated for the construction of new-build social housing units; the number of new social homes this allocation is expected to deliver; if this figure includes the cost of service provision; and if he will make a s…
Paul Nicholas Gogarty
written
2025-05-29 · to Finance
295. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Finance his plans to increase budgetary projects and forecasts to a five-year period, as recommended by the Fiscal Advisory Council, especially in light of recent warnings about our future income streams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27879/25]
Martin Daly
written
2025-05-27 · to Agriculture
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]
John Paul O'Shea
written
2025-05-21 · to Health
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]
Eoin Ó Broin
written
2025-05-20 · to Housing
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]
Alan Kelly
written
2025-05-20 · to Justice
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]
Paul Lawless
written
2025-05-20 · to Agriculture
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]
Conor Sheehan
written
2025-05-15 · to Housing
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 shortfal…
Eoin Ó Broin
written
2025-05-15 · to Housing
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 fac…
Ged Nash
written
2025-05-15 · to Housing
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 anno…
Eoin Ó Broin
written
2025-05-15 · to Housing
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 statemen…
Eoin Ó Broin
written
2025-05-15 · to Housing
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 statem…
Eoin Ó Broin
written
2025-05-15 · to Housing
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]
Mark Wall
written
2025-05-01 · to Social
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]
Alan Kelly
written
2025-04-30 · to Agriculture
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]
Alan Kelly
written
2025-04-30 · to Further and Higher Education
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]
Paul Lawless
written
2025-04-29 · to Children
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]
Alan Kelly
written
2025-04-08 · to Children
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]
Albert Dolan
written
2025-04-08 · to Further and Higher Education
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]
Pa Daly
written
2025-04-03 · to Transport
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;…
Joe Cooney
written
2025-04-01 · to Housing
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]