853. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health to provide the web link to her Department’s Q4 2025 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line with the FOI model publication scheme requirements; the date on which this report was published; and if it has not yet been published, the planned publication date. [16571/26]
Topics / Departmental Expenditure
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
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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 questions
982. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to list all schemes, funding programmes, capital funds, grant streams or other expenditure headings administered by his Department in 2025 and 2026 which result in allocations, awards, or spending that can be identified with a specific geographical location including county, district, town, or project site, …
983. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide the web link to his Department’s Q4 2025 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line with the FOI model publication scheme requirements; the date on which this report was published; and if it has not yet been published, the planned publication date. [16570/26]
990. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to list all schemes, funding programmes, capital funds, grant streams or other expenditure headings administered by his Department in 2025 and 2026 which result in allocations, awards, or spending that can be identified with a specific geographical location including county, district, town, or project site, to group thes…
462. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total Exchequer expenditure in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 on placements purchased from privately operated children’s residential centres; the proportion this represented of total residential care expenditure in each year.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15841/26]
465. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department maintains or receives a consolidated annual report aggregating safeguarding, compliance, or regulatory concerns relating to privately operated children’s residential centres funded in whole or in part by the Exchequer; and if not, whether she intends to establish such a reporting mechanism in the interests of gover…
587. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to state under which programme headings, service plans, or budget subheads expenditure on elective procedures undertaken without medical indication is recorded; whether such expenditure is separately identifiable within Departmental or HSE accounts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15979/26]
10. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the proportion of Ireland’s climate finance that is delivered in the form of grants versus loans [15401/26]
20. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the way in which he intends on paying expected fines of between €3 and €26 billion for missing Ireland's EU climate and energy targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15600/26]
168. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding any product or services purchased from Canada by his Department in 2025, broken down by description and amount paid. [15337/26]
756. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the amount spent on providing a tax free payment under the accommodation recognition payment for housing Ukrainians in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14375/26]
757. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the amount that has been spent providing a tax free payment to house Ukrainians in 2025 under the Accommodation Recognition Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14379/26]
1041. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the total amount paid out in compensation by the HSE in each of the past ten years and to date in 2026. [14863/26]
1042. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the total amount paid by the HSE to debt collector companies in each of the past ten years. [14864/26]
1046. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the budget for medical compensation in each of the years from 2016 to 2026. [14868/26]
1047. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the amount the HSE paid out in compensation for medical negligence in each of the years 2016 to 2025, and to-date in 2026. [14869/26]
224. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Defence given the importance of ensuring sovereignty of national defence capabilities, supply chain resilience, and knowledge transfer when it comes to Defence Procurement, when she plans to publish a local procurement framework, outlining the positive economic impact for Irish SME’s and how can they engage in the Governments defence procurement process; and if she wil…
280. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide an exhaustive list of flood related compensation, paid from his Department's vote allocations over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13924/26]
428. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the total amount paid out in flood compensation from the vote allocation of his Department each year since 2011, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13908/26]
609. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has conducted any value-for-money or cost-comparison analysis between maintaining automatic substitute reimbursement mechanisms during shortages and operating the current discretionary case-by-case approval model; and if she will provide details of any such analysis undertaken since 2020. [13658/26]
623. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2164 of 13 January 2026, whether her Department has approved any standard national methodology for calculating bed-day cost for governance and planning purposes, including the cost basis used and whether it is applied consistently across hospital groups; and if so, to provide the methodology reference and the date it was appro…
566. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 243 of 23 September 2025, 149 of 7 May 2025 and 156 of 7 October 2025, and noting that his Department published consolidated “Government Departments Prompt Payment Returns” for over a decade up to Q1 2025 which included both the number and value in euro of payments made within prescribed timefram…
607. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth 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. [11795/26]
608. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth 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. [11813/26]
609. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth 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. [11831/26]