9. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide, for each department, the expenditure levy amount applied from 2027; the specific measures submitted and approved to meet it; the posts to be supressed, programmes reduced and grants to State agencies reduced; the amount classified as efficiencies versus reductions in services; and if…
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A subject heading for parliamentary questionsDepartmental Expenditure
1,121 questions from 103 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 22 October 2026.
1,121
questions
1,118 written, 3 oral
103
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.
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| January 2025 | 11 |
| February 2025 | 45 |
| March 2025 | 19 |
| April 2025 | 12 |
| May 2025 | 40 |
| June 2025 | 46 |
| July 2025 | 143 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 69 |
| October 2025 | 45 |
| November 2025 | 67 |
| December 2025 | 29 |
| January 2026 | 134 |
| February 2026 | 57 |
| March 2026 | 34 |
| April 2026 | 46 |
| May 2026 | 52 |
| June 2026 | 123 |
| July 2026 | 76 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 53 |
| October 2026 | 20 |
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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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13. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to list each Department projected as of the end of 2026 to exceed its 2026 current allocation; the amount by which each has exceeded the allocation; if a levy on other departments will be applied to offset any projected overrun in the Department of Heath, consistent with the approach taken for …
40. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide an update on which departments will require supplementary estimates to cover any expenditure above their allocation in Budget 2026. [74676/26]
122. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Education and Youth the date the next tranche of the NDP roll out of new school buildings will be announced; and the amount of funding allocated to her Department in Budget 2027 for this. [74895/26]
138. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide a breakdown, by programme subhead, of the additional €646 million allocated to her Department in 2026, distinguishing between pay and non-pay; the projected end of 2026 outrun for each subhead; and whether her Department currently projects any further expenditure beyond its revised 2026 allocation. [74462/26]
40. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the position regarding overpayments made by the NSSO to former Government ministers; the number of former Government ministers who have not yet set up a repayment plan with the NSSO; and the number of former Government ministers who have not yet fully repaid their outstanding debts with the N…
795. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount spent by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department on agricultural land acquisitions in each year since 2020. [74308/26]
143. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Transport if his Department has sought an explanation from the Port of Cork Company for the increase in its expenditure on legal advice from €165,010 in 2023 to €1,054,954 in 2024; if his Department has been provided with a breakdown of that expenditure, by category, including any amounts relating to disputes with current or former staff, directors or a former chief exec…
148. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Transport the total legal costs incurred by a company (details supplied) including costs awarded against the company; when his Department was first informed of those proceedings; and if his Department was advised at any stage of the likely outcome of the case. [72425/26]
233. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the amount paid out from the Climate and Nature Fund; and the purposes for which. [72058/26]
409. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way in which he has allocated the €2 billion allocated to his Department under the ICNF; the amount that has been spent to date; the amount that has been allocated to date; and the amount that has yet to be allocated, in tabular form. [71370/26]
684. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the spend on private recruitment firms for adaptation programs, by profession and site, in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026; and the procurement fee paid to each firm, in tabular form. [71416/26]
685. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the spend on private recruitment firms in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026, by firm, in tabular form. [71414/26]
847. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 913 of 14 July 2026, to provide the updated spend on outsourcing arrangements in University Hospital Galway to address laboratory backlogs to date in 2026. [72260/26]
901. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the amount spent on improving facilities and capacity within further education campuses in Limerick in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [72129/26]
431. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the full costs of the Heywood Road modular buildings, County Tipperary (details supplied), including all building, site preparation and security costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70017/26]
519. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount spent by her Department on private third party providers carrying out assessment of needs in the past four years, in tabular. [70374/26]
740. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding that has been allocated to an organisation (details supplied) nationally in the past five years, in tabular form; and the schemes these allocations were made from. [69829/26]
741. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the funding schemes currently open to the Irish Countrywomen's Association guilds. [69827/26]
742. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if his Department has engaged with and organisation (details supplied) regarding its concerns about funding equity. [69830/26]
603. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 65390/26 of 16 September 2026 (details supplied), the specific measures in place or planned to reduce the average period of 56 to 57 days between the completion of a custodial sentence and the enforcement of a removal or deportation order; the reason for the increase in persons released from custod…
302. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the amount that has been spent on the Financial Management Shared Service Project to date; the Departments or Votes that have indicated they will not use the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67671/26]
213. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the total expenditure by the HSE and each Section 38 organisation on management consultancy and external professional services for each full year 2021 to 2025 and for the period 1 January to 31 August in 2025 and 2026, broken down by organisation, firm and service type and, for HSE expenditure, by HSE Health Region or national service where available, in tabul…
416. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total expenditure incurred by his Department, and any body under the aegis of his Department, in connection with the visit of President Donald J. Trump to Ireland in September 2026; and if he will provide a breakdown of such expenditure by category, in tabular form. [66365/26]
411. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the projected growth in demand and associated cost, across all existing acute health services for 2027. [66202/26]