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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

Peadar Tóibín Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Justice
513. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of arrests for drug offences in each county in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [9334/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Justice
514. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of reported burglaries in each county in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [9335/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Justice
515. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of persons arrested for burglaries in each county in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [9336/25]
Matt Carthy Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Justice
541. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the number of crimes that were recorded where the suspected offenders were on bail in each of the last three years, by county and category of offence, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9815/25]
Pádraig O'Sullivan Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Agriculture
544. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons convicted of a €5,000 penalty under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9020/25]
Pádraig O'Sullivan Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Agriculture
545. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons imprisoned for six months under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9021/25]
Pádraig O'Sullivan Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Agriculture
546. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons fined €250,000 under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9022/25]
Pádraig O'Sullivan Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Agriculture
547. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons imprisoned for up to five years under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9023/25]
Pádraig O'Sullivan Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Agriculture
548. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons disqualified from owning animals under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9024/25]
Pádraig O'Sullivan Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Agriculture
549. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of equines euthanised as a result of being seized by local authorities in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9025/25]
Pádraig O'Sullivan Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Agriculture
550. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of equines seized for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 per local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9026/25]
Thomas Gould Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Agriculture
557. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses seized in Cork in 2024. [9106/25]
Martin Kenny Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Agriculture
574. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of TB reactor cattle on Irish farms from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9509/25]
Martin Kenny Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Agriculture
575. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farms with TB reactor cattle from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024 located in an area that is neighbouring land belonging to a controlled finishing unit or feedlot; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9510/25]
Martin Kenny Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Agriculture
576. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on his Department's IT issues which are affecting ACRES payments to thousands of farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9511/25]
Paul Donnelly Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Agriculture
579. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of each bonus payment to employees of Greyhound Racing Ireland and Horse Racing Ireland in 2024. [9602/25]
Marie Sherlock Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Children
597. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the early years inspectorate has issued a direction to end, with immediate effect, access by school aged children to school aged care but are not yet enrolled in primary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9044/25]
Mattie McGrath Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Children
600. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a building in Cork (details supplied) is currently in use as IPAS accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9056/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 4 Mar 2025 · to Children
614. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children referred to Tusla in 2024; the professions of those making the referrals; and the types of referral, in tabular form. [9340/25]
Cathy Bennett Written 27 Feb 2025 · to Tourism
266. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide details of the divisions and units that operate within the Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8779/25]
Rory Hearne Written 27 Feb 2025 · to Housing
278. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if all local authorities have furnished details on the total number of derelict properties currently on their registers; if so, if he will outline this information, by local authority; the number of actions and fines issued under the Derelict Sites Act 1990 for each respective local authority in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form;…
Peter 'Chap' Cleere Written 27 Feb 2025 · to Housing
281. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the number of appeals submitted to An Board Pleanála via decisions made by Carlow and Kilkenny county councils; the number of these upheld; the number of these overturned, for 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8859/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 27 Feb 2025 · to Justice
320. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of sham marriages that have happened in Ireland for each of the past five years; the proportion of these sham marriages of the total that his Department/Gardaí have investigated for each of the past five years; if it is the case that documents are not verified for their integrity in the EU Treaty Rights Division, Immigration Service Delivery, Departm…
Peadar Tóibín Written 27 Feb 2025 · to Justice
321. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if any banks have refused to verify the integrity of bank documents by those that seek to register a marriage under EU Treaty Rights; and the reason they have done this. [8653/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 27 Feb 2025 · to Justice
322. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of people for each of the past ten years that have applied through the regularisation of the long-term undocumented migrant scheme; and the number of people that have applied for this scheme that have already received a deportation order for each of the past ten years. [8654/25]