344. Deputy William Aird asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in Laois that applied for the Power Up grant; the number of the applications that were successful; the total value of the grants approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9451/25]
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
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
356. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Education the number of new ASD classes delivered in Cork primary schools for 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9034/25]
357. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Education the number of new ASD classes delivered in Cork secondary schools for 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9035/25]
358. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Education if she has considered establishing a school in Cork county exclusively for children with a specific autism diagnosis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9036/25]
359. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Education the number of newly appointed special education teachers for 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9037/25]
360. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Education the number of special education teachers that retired in 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9038/25]
365. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education the date on which revised salary and annual leave entitlements for school caretakers will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9136/25]
369. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education the estimated full-year cost of recruiting 250 additional special needs assistant posts. [9181/25]
388. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education the status of a school feasibility study (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9466/25]
402. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education if she will detail the precise arrangements in place within her Department to ensure effective engagement, on an ongoing basis, between her forward planning unit and each local authority in order to ensure that her Department can meet the demands arising from new residential developments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9692/25]
411. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he will list the recipients of the €15 million live performance restart grant scheme, identifying each recipient that had previously received funding under the live performance support schemes; the amount of the funding that went to previous live performance support schemes recipients; and the amount that went …
421. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the date his Department was first made aware of the National Gallery of Ireland’s plans to purchase an x-ray scanner in 2017; if his Department provided sign-off for the expenditure or oversight for the project; if the then-Minister was aware; if she provided sign-off; when the Department and the Minister were firs…
431. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to list all the agencies and organisations that he has met with in his first thirty days in office, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9041/25]
434. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of hectares of land owned by local authorities which is zoned for housing developments nationwide, by local authority; the total amount of local authority land which is zoned for housing, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9076/25]
441. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new homes that are forecast to be delivered with the additional €450 million funding under funding streams (details supplied). [9312/25]
473. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of WTE staff, by grade in each employment support team within Intreo offices within Dublin as of 25 February 2025, in tabular form. [9595/25]
474. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of single persons with no dependents that received more than €24,000 in social welfare payments administered by his Department during 2024 and to provide a breakdown of those recipients by the total amount received. [9596/25]
484. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the figures for knife crime convictions for each of the years 2017 to 2024, inclusive, in tabular form. [9014/25]
485. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if any report or investigation into knife crime has been commissioned or supplied to his Department; and if so, by whom; and on what date. [9015/25]
489. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Justice the overall Garda numbers for County Wicklow; the Garda numbers for each station in County Wicklow, in tabular form;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9051/25]
492. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Justice the number of charges under the Control of Horses Act 1996 in 2024. [9107/25]
493. Deputy Paula Butterly asked the Minister for Justice the number of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence offences (details supplied), in 2023 and 2024, broken down by Garda station in County Louth and in east Meath, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9123/25]
501. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice if he will report on his role in appointing peace commissioners; the current number of peace commissioners, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9154/25]
502. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice if he will report on the process of becoming a peace commissioner; the average time between application and a decision being made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9155/25]
504. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the total costs of training a Garda until attestation, in the Garda Training College, Templemore. [9185/25]