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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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Justice
755. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the key measures taken to improve community safety during 2025; his priorities for 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72467/25]
Roderic O'Gorman Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Agriculture
803. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department has taken on foot of the action in the ESB Networks Winter 2025 Grid Resilience Plan, regarding a "co-operative effort between ESB Networks, Coillte and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to identify at-risk segments of the network for priority remediation"; and if he will make a statement on …
Mattie McGrath Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Children
805. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the behaviour support service currently being delivered through the Children’s Disability Network Teams (CDNTs) in Cashel and Clonmel will continue; if funding has been secured for this service in 2026; if funding has not been committed; the reasons for this decision; if she will urgently review the matter given the significant sho…
Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Children
815. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE social workers based in South Kildare Children's Disability Network Team in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [71412/25]
John McGuinness Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Children
816. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if a place will be provided for a person (details supplied) given they urgently require a structured plan for their future care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [71440/25]
Claire Kerrane Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Children
834. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide gross wage amounts for employees (details supplied) in early years, as collected through the financial returns. [71857/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Children
872. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps her Department is taking to introduce a standardised supplier-information framework, including supplier legal type, across all bodies funded by her Department’s budget; and the expected timeline for implementation. [72521/25]
Seán Crowe Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
883. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive conformation of, and a date for a notification of marriage interview. [71305/25]
Niall Collins Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
909. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason for a delayed EMT call out (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [71423/25]
Michael Cahill Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
928. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if she has reviewed the joint statement from clinical and professional groups regarding the proposed changes to the reclassification for high-protein oral nutritional supplements (ONS) from list A to list B (details supplied); if she is aware that approximately 15,000 patients per month rely on these products, including many older adults at risk of malnutrition…
Aidan Farrelly Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
955. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE administrative staff, by grade posts, which are filled at each primary care centre within CHO7 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [71702/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
967. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of people who have been diagnosed with cancer in each county in the State in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [71785/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
968. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of people who have died from cancer in each county in the State in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [71786/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
970. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of adverse incidents reported through the National Incident Management System NIMS in each of the past ten years; the number of which were extreme, major, and the number which resulted in death or incapacity, in tabular form. [71788/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
980. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of suicides or suspected suicides in the State in each of the past ten years; if her Department holds data to indicate whether the suicide rate in increasing or decreasing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [71800/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
992. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 22 October 2025, to provide an update on the number of full-time agency posts converted to HSE posts (details supplied) in 2024 and to date in 2025, by staff category, in tabular form. [71955/25]
Carol Nolan Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
1014. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the number of first consultations and second consultations for abortions that were provided by general practitioners, family planning clinics and women’s health clinics in 2022 and 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [72028/25]
Thomas Gould Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
1025. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the number of GMS general practitioners in Cork, by LHO in 2020 and in 2025. [72107/25]
Thomas Gould Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
1026. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the number of GMS patients in Cork, by LHO, in 2020 and in 2025. [72108/25]
Thomas Gould Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
1028. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the number of complaints received about Cork health services in 2025, by complaint category or health service provider. [72110/25]
Thomas Gould Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
1029. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the number of active litigations for healthcare malpractice in Cork currently underway; and the amount paid for litigating same in 2025. [72111/25]
Sorca Clarke Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
1034. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of unfilled CAMHS consultant psychiatry posts; the recruitment plan to address vacancies; and the timeline for achieving full staffing levels. [72127/25]
Pádraig O'Sullivan Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
1073. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health the cost of outsourcing autism diagnostic assessments in the HSE Southwest; the number of assessments delivered through private providers in each of the past three years; whether direct provision through a primary care team will reduce these costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [72264/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
1083. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the national datasets her Department is required to hold for governance, planning and oversight of all services funded under the Health Vote; to identify the datasets that are not currently in place; and to set out the timeline to establish full national data coverage across the system. [72291/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 16 Dec 2025 · to Health
1086. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the controls her Department uses to oversee the €23 billion staffing and pay envelope in the absence of granular national vacancy and pay data; and the measures she intends to introduce to strengthen national visibility and performance monitoring. [72294/25]