255. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to introduce legally enforceable standards for works carried out by builders, to protect the public from so-called cowboy builders; to establish a register of builders against whom legal actions have been taken successfully allowing the public to review the standing of builders before contracting work from them; and if he will …
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A subject heading for parliamentary questionsDepartmental 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.
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| Month | Questions |
|---|---|
| January 2025 | 34 |
| February 2025 | 83 |
| March 2025 | 109 |
| April 2025 | 199 |
| May 2025 | 70 |
| June 2025 | 294 |
| July 2025 | 286 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 289 |
| October 2025 | 144 |
| November 2025 | 345 |
| December 2025 | 296 |
| January 2026 | 192 |
| February 2026 | 284 |
| March 2026 | 121 |
| April 2026 | 263 |
| May 2026 | 415 |
| June 2026 | 310 |
| July 2026 | 260 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 124 |
| October 2026 | 118 |
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
Members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them. Each question counts once.
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Debated under the same heading
Debates whose official heading is exactly these words.
The questions
284. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 487 of 27 May 2025, to provide details of the outsourced visa service provider mentioned; the total amount paid to this provider; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35058/25]
288. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Gardaí that have taken sick leave of more than six months in total since 2015 in counties Cork, Limerick, Wicklow and Donegal, respectively. [35104/25]
291. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Questions No. 573 of 25 March 2025 and No. 876 of 13 May 2025, regarding the details of all new Garda stations planned to be commenced within the next five years, if the requested information is now available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35170/25]
294. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the projected annual cost for Ireland of participation in the EU Pact on Asylum and Migration for each of the next five years, broken down by current and capital expenditure, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35173/25]
296. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number in each intake of Gardaí, and the number who attested, in each intake in the past three years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35181/25]
300. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of Tusla publicly-provided residential care places for children, available in each year from 2020 to 2024; the number available in 2025; the additional number of regulated places added in each year, either public or private; the plans for adding new public places in 2025; the additional funding in place for 2025 to provide new p…
301. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the locations around the country where community health organisations are providing specific services for adults with an autistic diagnosis; the staffing cohort at each location; the number of patients benefitting from the services at each location, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35083/25]
306. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to report on her Department's engagement with the planning and building unit of the Department of Education and Youth, regarding the development of State-led childcare facilities in tandem with the school building programme; the number of meetings that have taken place; the dates when these meetings took place; the main findings of each …
324. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the nurse to patient ratio in Ireland, broken down by hospital. [35042/25]
325. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the doctor to patient ratio in Irish hospitals, broken down by hospital. [35043/25]
326. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the consultant to patient ratio in Irish hospitals, broken down by hospital. [35044/25]
333. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Health the number of active fair deal cases where a family home is involved in the financial assessment; the number of those cases where the person availing of the scheme was the only occupant of the property; and the number of these properties are now vacant or rented out. [35064/25]
208. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the total number of people who have travelled abroad under the treatment abroad scheme to receive dental treatment for each of the years ending 31 December 2021, 31 December 2022, 31 December 2023, and 31 December 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34763/25]
240. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he is aware of the significant delays in the conciliation and arbitration scheme operated by his Department, particularly for applications for acting and substitution allowance payments; the steps he intends to take in addressing those significant delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34180/25]
381. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated cost to expand the in-school therapy programme by a factor of 100%, doubling, in effect, the number of permanent expert therapists operating under ETSS. [33597/25]
421. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide an outline of the revised divestment process; when it will commence; the targets for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33957/25]
424. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide a timeline as to when she expects her Department to conduct a survey of primary school parents and guardians on their preferences on important aspects of school provision and choice; when she expects the results of this survey to be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34082/25]
437. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 12 June 2025, if she will outline how the ancillary grant is calculated for each school, the total funding provided for this scheme in 2024 and 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34222/25]
438. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 11 June 2025, to provide the requested email and phone lines available for Oireachtas members to raise queries in her Department and the bodies under its aegis, in tabular form. [34225/25]
455. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number and names of single teacher schools in County Clare in each of the years 2019 to 2025, in tabular form; the current teacher/pupil ratio in 2025 in these schools in County Clare; her plans to close any of them; if so, the location of the schools and number of pupils in them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34427/25]
456. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education and Youth the breakdown of resources provided to schools in north Kildare to accommodate children with mild general learning disabilities in mainstream schools; the number of children in those classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34443/25]
459. Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth when schools that underwent a REPowerEU Energy Inventory Profile Survey as part of the second phase of the REPowerEU Pathfinder Programme will be notified as to whether they will be included in the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34501/25]
460. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 442 of 17 June 2025, to examine the response from the school (details supplied) to her reply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34524/25]
477. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to list every community-based festival and summer school that has approached him or his Department directly to solicit funding outside of the normal processes for grant applications on an exceptional basis to assist with developmental or other needs, over the past five years; the date of their request; and to list every community-b…