665. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide a list of the ten capital projects, completed or almost completed, within the past five years, with the most significant cost variances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20555/25]
Topics / Departmental Data
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
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| Month | Questions |
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| 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
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The questions
666. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform with respect to the capital commitments voted upon in the recent budget, to provide a breakdown expenditure by nomenclature of territorial units 3 (NUTS3) region, in tabular form; and if he will detail the controls used to ensure that spending is fairly distributed across the country. [20556/25]
669. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of EU-owned OEM IT brands represented in ITC016F Multi Supplier Framework Agreement for the provision of Network and Firewall Products, Solutions, Ancillary Equipment and Associated Services. [20612/25]
688. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a timeline for the publication of an action plan for collective bargaining; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18584/25]
705. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will supply any analysis from his Department on the domestic private investment landscape by sector, and in particular, in property versus non-property private investment; the steps he is taking to ensure private investment capital is not disproportionately allocated to property development in a way that over-concentrates domestic pr…
707. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of all services, grants, loans and payments available to individuals or households funded by his Department and agencies under his remit; the eligibility requirements and any conditionality for receiving the service, grant, loan or payment (details supplied); and the monetary value, or range of values, of the service,…
712. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of critical skills employment permits available in 2025 for paramedics; the number of which have been fulfilled; if no such permits are currently available, the timeframe in which his Department expects to announce a new allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19458/25]
720. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of members of each of the registered trade unions in Ireland notified to his Department as being in benefit on 31 December 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19906/25]
726. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide this Deputy with copies of all material, records and correspondence from 1 January to the 15 April between his office (details supplied) and all relevant officials of his Department and the Low Pay Commission officials, commission members and the Chair relating to the work of the Commission on the introduction of the livin…
741. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses that have engaged with the National Enterprise Hub over the past 12 months. [20853/25]
746. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of international companies involved providing in social media or digital other platforms who have been operating in Ireland and the number of jobs sustained by these companies, in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21113/25]
871. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Education the second level schools currently primary feeders for Newcastle, County Dublin residents at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19305/25]
898. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education the number of schools that offer the Aonaid model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19503/25]
957. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Education for an update on an application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20026/25]
969. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education the number of WTE charted surveyors employed by her Department in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [20149/25]
1016. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Education if she can outline how many times she has used section 37A of the Education Act 2022 from 2017 to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20644/25]
1072. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the estimated total number of hotel rooms in the State in each year from 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18520/25]
1085. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if the bust of General San Martin, the national hero and liberator of Argentina, which was presented to the Government by a delegation in April 1966 (details supplied) will be put on public display. [19075/25]
1127. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media how a finder’s fee from the national museum of Ireland for the finding of historical artefacts is determined; what the criteria are for determining who is entitled to payment and what percentage of payment they are entitled to when more than one party claims to be entitled to the commission; and if he will make a sta…
1128. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media his views on the work of officials within his Department to attract large scale or international sporting events to be held in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20854/25]
1139. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he will provide a list of arts, culture and media organisations he has met in his capacity as Minister since his appointment. [21277/25]
1170. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it is factual that the keeping communities safe document has not been ratified by the relevant trade unions at the time of publication; and his Department’s current position regarding its status and applicability. [18856/25]
1179. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all land that had its residential zoning by way of ministerial order in each of the years since 2020, by local authority area and land volume. [18977/25]
1183. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to clarify the commencement schedule for each of the chapters and sections of Part 9 of the Planning and Development Act 2024; and to clarify if a partial commencement of chapter 2 is envisaged earlier in 2025 under block A2, with remaining sections of chapter 2 Part 9 to follow, with the subsequent and later implementation of ele…
1198. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount of residentially zoned land in each local authority development plan, including a range of the number of residential homes that this land could yield in each local authority, in tabular form. [19205/25]