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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

Mark Wall Written 27 May 2025 · to Health
578. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the number of hours of specifically family carer in-home respite only the HSE has delivered, by CHO, for the year to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26740/25]
Sorca Clarke Written 27 May 2025 · to Health
664. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of drug related deaths involving homeless women and men in 2022, 2023 and 2024; the number of those that died that had a known history of mental health issues; the average age of these men and women, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26942/25]
David Cullinane Written 27 May 2025 · to Health
715. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the average turnaround time from application to registration for registration with CORU by profession, both in total and separated for domestic and international applications, for each year 2019-2025 to date, in tabular form. [27240/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 27 May 2025 · to Health
753. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of children that have been required to return to theatre due to post-operative infection following spinal fusion or growth rod procedures in Children's Health Ireland at Temple Street, CHI at Crumlin, and Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital, in each of the past five years, in tabular form (details supplied); and the number of children that required m…
Sorca Clarke Written 22 May 2025 · to Housing
260. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of people registered as homeless in the Longford-Westmeath constituency in the first quarter of 2025, broken down by women, children and men, in tabular form. [26481/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 20 May 2025 · to Agriculture
164. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons to attain a green certificate qualification in the State in each of the past ten years. [25484/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 15 May 2025 · to Social
256. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of same-sex marriages registered in the State in each of the years since 2015, by year, in tabular form. [25024/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 15 May 2025 · to Social
257. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of marriages registered in the State in each of the years since 2015, by year, in tabular form. [25025/25]
Pearse Doherty Written 14 May 2025 · to Finance
54. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of legal titles of mortgages held by credit servicing firms each year since 2016 where the loan is owned by a separate section 110 special purpose vehicle, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24778/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 14 May 2025 · to Health
217. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the accumulated deficits of each voluntary hospital in the country as reported to her Department and/or the HSE as of 1 January 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24771/25]
Ivana Bacik Written 13 May 2025 · to Taoiseach
242. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach the average wage and the median wage in Ireland in each year from 2015 to date in 2025. [24464/25]
Roderic O'Gorman Written 13 May 2025 · to Environment
330. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when auctions will take place for sites B, C and D as outlined in the south coast DMAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24194/25]
Ivana Bacik Written 13 May 2025 · to Finance
456. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons, expressed as a percentage of the total workforce, who were in the highest income tax bracket in Ireland in each year from 2015 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24465/25]
Rory Hearne Written 13 May 2025 · to Housing
709. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the number of acquisitions made under social housing second hand acquisitions programme in 2024 and to date in 2025, by property size (one bedroom, two bedroom etc), by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23514/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 13 May 2025 · to Housing
737. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of sites that are zoned for planning specific to housing that are in Ireland from January 2025. [23691/25]
Carol Nolan Written 13 May 2025 · to Social
828. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection whether her Department monitors the employment status of those who have been granted Irish citizenship in recent years; if so, the number of adults who were granted citizenship from 2020 to date in 2025 currently in receipt of either jobseekers benefit or jobseekers allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24327/25]
Carol Nolan Written 13 May 2025 · to Social
829. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of non-nationals who are currently in receipt of either jobseekers benefit or jobseekers allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24328/25]
Catherine Ardagh Written 13 May 2025 · to Social
832. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of families that have received newborn baby grants since the scheme commenced in February, in tabular form, on a county-by-county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24373/25]
Matt Carthy Written 13 May 2025 · to Justice
878. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 565 to 568, and No. 570 of 25 March 2025 regarding offences committed on bail, if the requested information is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23684/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 13 May 2025 · to Justice
881. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Justice the number of custodial sentences that have been handed down for drug possession per year from 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23697/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 13 May 2025 · to Justice
882. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Justice the number of people have served custodial sentences on foot of their third cannabis possession offence from 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23698/25]
Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin Written 13 May 2025 · to Health
1013. Deputy Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin asked the Minister for Health the number of cases of spiking that have been reported in the past five years, per county; including reports to hospitals and gardaí, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23280/25]
Pearse Doherty Written 8 May 2025 · to Finance
281. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to provide a full list of all houses and gardens that are available for public view as a condition for an exemption from capital acquisitions tax on a heritage basis including the address, the days and times each is open to the public, any price payable for public access and the year each was opened to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter.…
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 8 May 2025 · to Tourism
341. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he will provide data on the number of people earning more than €100,000 per year from employment in the public sector including departments, agencies, State owned companies and semi-State companies, broken down by their employing public sector body and the value of the salaries. [23739/25]
Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin Written 8 May 2025 · to Housing
342. Deputy Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding that has been provided to Uisce Éireann in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025; where this funding has been allocated, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23002/25]