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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

Barry Ward Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Enterprise
558. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the position regarding the total level of Exchequer funding spent by his Department on funding NGOs, by organisation, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11796/26]
Barry Ward Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Enterprise
559. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the position regarding the total level of Exchequer funding spent on funding NGOs by his Department, in each of the years since 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11814/26]
Sorca Clarke Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Enterprise
563. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will provide a list maintained by IDA of Nevada Headquartered companies with operations in Ireland. [12066/26]
Emer Currie Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Education
597. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number SNAs provided for in total under budgets 2024, 2025 and 2026, by WTE, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11719/26]
Conor Sheehan Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Housing
825. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of builders who have signed up to the statutory register under the Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022, broken down by year since 2014, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12872/26]
Ciarán Ahern Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Social
876. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people currently in receipt of the Bereaved Partner’s (Contributory) Pension and the Bereaved Partner’s (Non-Contributory) Pension, in tabular form; the number of additional applications received for both pensions following changes to the rules in July 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12792/26]
Ciarán Ahern Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Social
877. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of the Bereaved Partner’s (Contributory) Pension who are also in receipt of a child support payment; the number of children, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12793/26]
Ciarán Ahern Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Social
878. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of the Bereaved Partner’s (Contributory) Pension or the Bereaved Partner’s (Non-Contributory) Pension who are also in receipt of a carer’s payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12794/26]
Ciarán Ahern Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Social
879. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people in receipt of the one parent family payment who are widowed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12795/26]
Carol Nolan Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Justice
925. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of prosecutions initiated for offences under the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Acts 2010 to 2021 since the 2021 amendments came into effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12651/26]
Paul Donnelly Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Agriculture
959. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of sanitary and phytosanitary checks which were carried out at designated border control posts here on imports covered by common health entry documents for products of animal origin by country of origin in the years 2024, 2025 and to-date in 2026 [11597/26]
Paul Donnelly Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Agriculture
960. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of common health entry documents for products of animal origin that were processed by his officials by designated border control posts of entry for the years of 2024, 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [11598/26]
David Cullinane Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Health
1061. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the total number of new oral health patients in target groups attending for scheduled assessment in each full year, 2022 to 2025, inclusive, by local office and region, in tabular form. [11658/26]
David Cullinane Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Health
1066. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting for diagnostic tests at the end of 2025, in tabular form. [11666/26]
Tom Brabazon Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Health
1068. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the number of ophthalmologists, optometrists and dispensing opticians providing services to medical card patients under the community ophthalmic services scheme in each year since 2022 to date in 2026, in tabular form. [11701/26]
Tom Brabazon Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Health
1069. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health if cataract surgeries will be carried out at the new Dublin North HSE Surgical Hub, due to be opened in April. [11702/26]
Marie Sherlock Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Health
1082. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of individuals awaiting access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), per clinic; the average wait time to access PrEP, per clinic, as of December 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11789/26]
Barry Ward Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Health
1083. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the total level of Exchequer funding spent by her Department on funding NGOs, by organisation, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11800/26]
Barry Ward Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Health
1084. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the total level of Exchequer funding spent on funding NGOs by her Department, in each of the years since 2022, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11818/26]
Barry Ward Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Health
1085. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the assessments that are carried out to determine the level of Exchequer funding that any NGO receives from her Department on an annual basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11836/26]
Barry Ward Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Health
1086. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health the position regarding any direct lobbying she has received from any NGO in relation to her annual funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11860/26]
David Cullinane Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Health
1088. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the bed occupancy rates of all public and voluntary hospitals; the number of days full capacity protocols were in operation in model 3 and model 4 hospitals, for each of the years 2022 to 2025, in tabular form. [11884/26]
Cathal Crowe Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Health
1101. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if she will provide the average occupancy rates for model four hospitals on a monthly basis from January 2024 to December 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12015/26]
David Cullinane Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Health
1120. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1069 of 27 January 2026, if she collects data on the reason for each cancellation; if so, the number and the reason; if she collects data on the rescheduling time for each cancellation; if so, the average rescheduling time for appointment type, by hospital, in tabular form. [12099/26]
Ken O'Flynn Written 17 Feb 2026 · to Health
1121. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 874 of 9 December 2026, the governance and data-collection arrangements in place to monitor the impact of the public only consultant contract since its introduction in March 2023 (details supplied). [12102/26]