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Departmental Data

4,236 questions from 140 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 22 October 2026.

4,236
questions
4,233 written, 3 oral
140
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

The record holds no questions for August, when the Dáil does not sit.

Jan 2025Oct 2026
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MonthQuestions
January 202534
February 202583
March 2025109
April 2025199
May 202570
June 2025294
July 2025286
August 20250
September 2025289
October 2025144
November 2025345
December 2025296
January 2026192
February 2026284
March 2026121
April 2026263
May 2026415
June 2026310
July 2026260
August 20260
September 2026124
October 2026118

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.

  • 100% RDR9 from 1 TD · 1 seat today
  • Aontú222 from 2 TDs · 2 seats today
  • Fianna Fáil647 from 34 TDs · 48 seats today
  • Fine Gael454 from 23 TDs · 38 seats today
  • Green Party29 from 1 TD · 1 seat today
  • Independent202 from 13 TDs · 15 seats today
  • Independent Ireland671 from 4 TDs · 4 seats today
  • Labour Party364 from 11 TDs · 11 seats today
  • People Before Profit-Solidarity83 from 3 TDs · 3 seats today
  • Sinn Féin1,203 from 38 TDs · 39 seats today

The TDs who asked most

Members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them. Each question counts once.

  1. 651
  2. 167
  3. 111
  4. 110
  5. 96
  6. 93
  7. 91
  8. 86

Asked of

Debated under the same heading

Debates whose official heading is exactly these words.

The questions

Eoghan Kenny Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
304. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of schools referred to the FSSU in academic year 2024-2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40241/25]
Eoghan Kenny Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
305. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of schools who have accepted funding for phone pouches scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40242/25]
Eoghan Kenny Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
306. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of teachers allocated into special education needs schools in the 2024-2025 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40243/25]
Darren O'Rourke Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
321. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated first and full year cost of providing an additional nurture room to every DEIS school with a special educational class. [40347/25]
Darren O'Rourke Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
322. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated first and full year cost of providing an additional nurture room in one school. [40348/25]
Darren O'Rourke Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
323. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of nurture rooms there are in schools across the State. [40349/25]
Darren O'Rourke Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
324. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated cost of providing a nurture room to all DEIS primary schools that do not currently have one. [40350/25]
Darren O'Rourke Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
325. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated cost of providing a nurture room to all DEIS secondary schools that do not currently have one. [40351/25]
Paul Nicholas Gogarty Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
330. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of detailed correspondence received from a school (details supplied) regarding the need for DEIS status to be formally reviewed under the current DEIS identification model, using anonymised, PPSN-linked data already available to her Department, or an equivalent emergency assessment-based provision amounting to same that will …
Albert Dolan Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
331. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide an update on the proposal to introduce an additional secondary school bus service for students attending a school (details supplied); if the current capacity has been reviewed; and the timeline for when a decision on additional transport provision will be made, in light of ongoing demand in the area. [40383/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Culture
352. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the safeguards that are in place to ensure that installers of private optical fibre infrastructure will remove legacy copper wire installations, cabling and hardware once the roll-out has occurred; the role ComReg will play in ensuring this work is completed and who is responsible for ensuring that all traces of legacy equipment are a…
Paul McAuliffe Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Housing
380. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will detail the amount of funding provided to each of the 31 local authorities for voids in years 2020-2025; the number of voids returned to use in each local authority in the years 2020-2025; and the number of outstanding voids in each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40430/…
Conor Sheehan Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Housing
386. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of staff working in Tailte Éireann for each year from 2015 to 2025; the average processing time for an application for each year from 2015 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40499/25]
Conor D McGuinness Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Social
390. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount of funding allocated to each county as part of the training support grant in each of the years 2014 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40625/25]
Conor D McGuinness Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Social
391. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount of funding allocated to each county as part of the work placement experience programme in each of the years 2014 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40626/25]
Conor D McGuinness Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Social
405. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection his Department's total expenditure under the community employment scheme, by county, in each year of the programme’s existence; and the number of participating employees under the scheme by county, in each year of the programme’s existence, in tabular form. [40644/25]
Conor D McGuinness Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Social
406. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of participants on the community employment scheme, by county, in each year of the programme’s existence; and the total funding allocated to each county in the corresponding period, in tabular form. [40645/25]
Conor D McGuinness Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Social
407. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the annual average cost per participant under the community employment scheme, by county, in each year of the programme’s existence, in tabular form. [40646/25]
Conor D McGuinness Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Social
408. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of new participants joining the community employment scheme in each county in each year of the programme’s existence, and the corresponding new funding allocated, in tabular form. [40647/25]
Conor D McGuinness Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Social
409. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection his Department's total expenditure under the Tús community work placement initiative, by county, in each year of the programme’s existence; and the number of participating employees under the initiative, by county, in each year of the programme’s existence, in tabular form. [40648/25]
Conor D McGuinness Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Social
410. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of participants on the Tús community work placement initiative by county in each year of the programme’s existence; and the total funding allocated to each county in the corresponding period, in tabular form. [40649/25]
Conor D McGuinness Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Social
411. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the annual average cost per participant under the Tús community work placement initiative, by county, in each year of the programme’s existence, in tabular form. [40650/25]
Conor D McGuinness Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Social
412. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of new participants joining the Tús community work placement initiative in each county in each year of the programme’s existence; and the corresponding new funding allocated, in tabular form. [40651/25]
Conor D McGuinness Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Social
413. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection his Department's total expenditure under the wage subsidy scheme, by county, in each year of the programme’s existence; and the number of participating employees under the scheme, by county, in each year of the programme’s existence, in tabular form. [40652/25]
Conor D McGuinness Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Social
414. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection his Department's total expenditure under the WorkAbility programme, by county, in each year of the programme’s existence; and the number of organisations supported under the programme, by county, in each year of the programme’s existence, in tabular form. [40653/25]