131. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth the position regarding the number of employees that were employed in her Department at the end of December 2025, broken down by grade, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22871/26]
Topics / Departmental Data
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsDepartmental Data
4,236 questions from 140 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 22 October 2026.
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questions
4,233 written, 3 oral
140
TDs have asked
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parties and groups
Independents counted together
20
departments asked
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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 |
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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.
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132. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of employees in each of the agencies under her Department's remit at the end of December 2025, broken down by grade, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22893/26]
146. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the number of employees in each of the agencies under his Department's remit at the end of December 2025, broken down by grade, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22891/26]
154. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of employees in each of the agencies under his Department's remit at the end of December 2025, broken down by grade, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22899/26]
265. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Access to Information on the Environment (AIE) requests received in each of the years 2020 to 2025; the total number of AIE requests received; the total number of internal reviews sought; the total number of appeals to the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information (OCEI); the outcomes of those appeals, inclu…
307. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of employees in each of the agencies under her Department's remit at the end of December 2025, broken down by grade, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22889/26]
280. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Transport the number of retired officials that were re-engaged by his Department on a consultancy basis in each of the years 2015 and to date in 2026; the reason for engaging them; the costs incurred in respect of their engagement; and if his Department requires consultants to declare conflicts of interest in advance of utilising their services. [21481/26]
658. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department has undertaken any analysis of Ireland’s income replacement rate during maternity, paternity and parent’s leave compared with other OECD countries; and if he is considering reforms to increase income replacement levels during parental leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21463/26]
663. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1417 of 8 September 2025, if he will provide updated details of the number of fuel allowance recipients following its recent extension, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21672/26]
804. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to previous parliamentary questions, to outline any reason for gaps in the data provided (details supplied); and where possible, to provide all missing data or suitable estimates. [21474/26]
1050. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the value of trade and tourism respectively, between Ireland and the states visited by him and by Ministers of State in his Department for the St Patrick's Day engagements overseas this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21957/26]
354. Deputy Johnny Mythen asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total number of criminal investigations opened under the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020 including offence name in each of the years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026 in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21273/26]
359. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 673 of 16 December 2025, if the relevant information has been supplied to him from Garda Authorities for him to answer this PQ. [21050/26]
362. Deputy George Lawlor asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of recorded crime incidents, by category, in Galway Garda Division, for each year since 2020 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21140/26]
366. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the amount of cryptocurrency the Criminal Assets Bureau has seized in the past ten years; the amount accessible and sold; to whom seized cryptocurrencies are sold to; to detail the way in which disposal of cryptocurrency takes place and the oversight mechanisms that are in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [212…
446. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department or the HSE maintains any national dataset, register or reporting mechanism relating to cases in which signs of life are observed following a termination of pregnancy; the number of such cases recorded nationally in each year since 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21079/26]
399. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Transport the number of occasions in each of the past five years on which Luas services were delayed due to road traffic collisions or incidents involving other vehicles on sections of the network where the Luas operates on street with general traffic; the average duration of such delays; the locations where these incidents most frequently occur; the measures being take…
404. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the estimated cost of making the carer's allowance and carer's benefit tax-exempt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20750/26]
455. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of the number of detections of domestic vehicles containing agricultural green diesel in each of the years from 2020 to date in 2026; the number of enforcements taken; the number of fines issued and totality of same; and the number of maximum fines issued over that time period. [19672/26]
501. Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the reason a person (details supplied) has been issued with a financial bill while a clerical error appears to have been made by the Department of Defence; and if his Department will review the situation and ensure that the person incurs no debt. [18650/26]
569. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if an update can be provided for a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18814/26]
823. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide details of the €300 million to be used as a contingency fund for 2026 to 2030 period under the NDP Sectoral Plan; the way in which projects will be deemed eligible for funding under this stream; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19764/26]
824. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide details of the €300 million to be used as a contingency fund for 2026 to 2030 period under the NDP Sectoral Plan; whether a project could be included (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19765/26]
826. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education and Youth the additional supports which have been provided under the redress measures she announced on Friday 6 March 2026, as against what was already in place; the way in which she specifically progressed calls for enhanced medical card and financial supports in pension payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19769/26]
827. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education and Youth the provision that will be made available for survivors of industrial schools who missed the deadline to apply for the Industrial school redress scheme of September 2011. [19770/26]