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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

Holly Cairns Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Culture
148. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within his Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form. [30928/25]
Holly Cairns Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Housing
162. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within his Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form. [30777/25]
Holly Cairns Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Social
181. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within his Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form. [30781/25]
Gary Gannon Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Justice
238. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of accredited media applications made to attend in camera family or childcare proceedings under section 40 of the Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004 or other statutory provisions in the past five years; and the number granted, in tabular form. [30964/25]
Aidan Farrelly Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Justice
250. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of vehicles seized and or impounded by Gardai, by county in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 in respect of learner drivers not being accompanied by a full licence holder, in tabular form. [31291/25]
Aidan Farrelly Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Justice
251. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of vehicle owners fined for permitting a learner driver use their vehicle on a public road without being accompanied by a full licence holder, by county in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form [31292/25]
Aidan Farrelly Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Justice
252. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of fines issued and penalty points issued to learner drivers that were detected by Gardaí, by county for driving a vehicle without being accompanied by a full licence holder in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [31293/25]
Aidan Farrelly Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Justice
253. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of learner drivers that were convicted in a court for driving a vehicle while not being accompanied by a full licence holder. [31294/25]
Aidan Farrelly Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Justice
254. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he and or his predecessor engaged external assistance and or consultancy in respect of the EU Migration Asylum Pact; if he will provide a schedule of services provided; the costs of same and a schedule of persons and or companies that were engaged and projected future costs in respect of same; and if he will provide the same info…
Holly Cairns Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Agriculture
255. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas members within his Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form. [30767/25]
Holly Cairns Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Children
263. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas members within her Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form. [30768/25]
James Geoghegan Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Children
269. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will identify by name each section 38 organisation who conduct assessment of need processes for the HSE; if she will identify referable to that section 38 organisation the total individual number of psychologists employed or contracted by that section 38 organisation who conduct assessment of need processes; and if she will ma…
James Geoghegan Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Children
270. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will identify by name each section 39 organisation that carries out an assessment of need process for the HSE; if she will identify referable to that section 39 organisation the total individual number of psychologists employed or contracted by that section 39 organisation who conduct assessment of need processes; and if she w…
James Geoghegan Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Children
271. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will identify the name of the entity or entities that the HSE contract or contracted to deliver the assessment of need waiting list initiative, in tabular form; if she will identify the total number of individual psychologists provided by the contracted entity or entities to carry out the assessment of need under the waiting l…
Claire Kerrane Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Children
274. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the full-year cost of increasing the wages across all grades of early years educators by €1.50 per hour [31086/25]
Malcolm Byrne Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Children
280. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of enduring power of attorney applications completed by the Decision Support Service; if issues raised by the Law Society on the service have been resolved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31144/25]
Emer Currie Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Children
283. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of services that have engaged with the Department regarding the sustainability fund or case management support for services that are having difficulty with viability under core funding; the number of services that have availed of additional supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31217/25]
Michael Cahill Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Health
290. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the cost of a 20% increase in clinical training places for medical interns, initial specialist training, higher specialist training and clinical psychology; the number of extra places this would result in; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30754/25]
Michael Cahill Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Health
291. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the number of people on the waiting list for Jigsaw in CHO 4 as off 31 May 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30755/25]
Michael Cahill Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Health
292. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the number of doctors who successfully completed specialist training for general practitioners in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30756/25]
Michael Cahill Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Health
293. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the number of consultants in critical care employed by the HSE from January 2020 to 31 May 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30757/25]
Michael Cahill Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Health
294. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the number of wrist surgeries performed at Kerry General Hospital in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30758/25]
Holly Cairns Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Health
297. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within her Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form. [30776/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Health
303. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of medical card patients seen through the MRI scanner in Our Lady’s Hospital Navan in the past two years. [30843/25]
David Cullinane Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Health
333. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of companies used by CHI to provide consultant weekend cover and-or waiting list initiatives since 2019; to list the names of the companies and the funds provided to the companies, broken down by year and by hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31009/25]