604. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of business visas issued in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49503/26]
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.
Jan 2025Oct 2026
Show as a table
| 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.
-
651
-
167
-
111
-
110
-
96
-
93
-
91
-
86
Asked of
Debated under the same heading
Debates whose official heading is exactly these words.
The questions
606. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of visa applications refused, broken down by visa category, in each of the years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49506/26]
607. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of applications for naturalisation received and the number of certificates of naturalisation issued, in each of the years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49507/26]
608. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of family reunification applications received under the International Protection Act 2015 and the number received under the Non-EEA Family Reunification Policy, in each of the years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49508/26]
620. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to outline the precise type of work carried out by persons subject to community service orders. [49681/26]
621. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the locations of work carried out by persons subject to community service orders. [49682/26]
622. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if work is carried out on behalf of local authorities or in conjunction with local authorities by persons subject to community service orders. [49683/26]
625. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the current staffing compliment of the Garda national drugs and organised crime bureau and of the Cork city divisional drugs unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49740/26]
652. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across his Department, by project, year and value; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49085/26]
676. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide figures for the cost overruns by his Department, relative to the budgeted amount in budget 2026 for his Department; the cost overruns relative to the budgeted amount in budget 2026 for each State agency under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49651/26]
687. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the report into an investigation concerning a farm (details supplied), for which a chairperson was appointed in January 2025, is expected to be finalised; the current status of that investigation; the projected timeline for publication of the findings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49761/26]
737. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department collects, receives or holds information on childcare waiting lists nationally or on a county basis; if so, the latest figures available for County Waterford and nationally; if not, whether she considers it appropriate that neither she nor her Department has access to comprehensive waiting list data despite …
888. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health the national data her Department and the HSE hold on the incidence of pregnancy loss (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49490/26]
890. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health the number of miscarriages recorded in each maternity hospital and unit, by hospital and unit, in each of the years 2021 to 2025, and to date in 2026, in tabular form; the source and basis on which these figures are compiled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49492/26]
899. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Health the population figures for persons aged over 70 years and children under eight years in Dublin west that her Department and the HSE are using to provide healthcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49565/26]
912. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of people with an eating disorder across the State to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49611/26]
941. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number, and corresponding rate, of new entrants who did not progress from first year to second year at university level, broken down by field of study, for each new entrant cohort from 2021/2022 to the most recent year for which data is available, as recorded in the Higher Education Authority's ana…
25. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the value of the ISIF’s holdings in a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48317/26]
267. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide a list of all commercial and non-commercial State bodies, agencies, and extra-budgetary funds under the aegis of his Department, or whose financial allocations are monitored by his Department, which hold cash reserves or accumulated surpluses exceeding €5 million; the exact total of…
330. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of requests for increased CALF and CAS funding on individual projects after construction has commenced, where costs have increased above initial stage 1 approval in the past 12 months, by local authority and by funding request approval/rejection. [48554/26]
331. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the capital funding increases for Uisce Éireann for every year from 2026 to 2030, as per the announcement in Budget 2026. [48555/26]
337. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the estimated full-year cost of employing one FTE, per staffing grade, in regard to workforce planning in An Coimisiún Pleanála, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48730/26]
338. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of biodiversity officers in each local authority; to provide a breakdown of the estimated cost to hire one additional FTE climate action officer in each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48733/26]
339. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost to double the funding for biodiversity officers, broken down by cap ex and op ex, in tabular form. [48734/26]
481. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of endometriosis surgeries carried out in 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, by site; and the number that were private patients undergoing surgery in public facilities, in tabular form. [48581/26]