Departmental Expenditure
An official questions-paper heading. 1,048 questions (3 oral, 1,045 written), first 2025-01-22, latest 2026-07-28.
Questions under this heading, per month
Jan 2025Jul 2026
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| Month | Questions |
|---|---|
| Jan 2025 | 11 |
| Feb 2025 | 45 |
| Mar 2025 | 19 |
| Apr 2025 | 12 |
| May 2025 | 40 |
| Jun 2025 | 46 |
| Jul 2025 | 143 |
| Sep 2025 | 69 |
| Oct 2025 | 45 |
| Nov 2025 | 67 |
| Dec 2025 | 29 |
| Jan 2026 | 134 |
| Feb 2026 | 57 |
| Mar 2026 | 34 |
| Apr 2026 | 46 |
| May 2026 | 52 |
| Jun 2026 | 123 |
| Jul 2026 | 76 |
Addressed to
| Department | Questions |
|---|---|
| Health | 108 |
| Agriculture | 82 |
| Public Expenditure | 78 |
| Defence | 70 |
| Justice | 66 |
| Education | 65 |
| Transport | 59 |
| Social | 59 |
| Housing | 56 |
| Further and Higher Education | 54 |
| Children | 54 |
| Culture | 47 |
| Foreign | 46 |
| Climate | 45 |
| Finance | 40 |
| Rural | 40 |
| Enterprise | 38 |
| Taoiseach | 35 |
| Tourism | 3 |
| Environment | 3 |
Debates under the same heading
Dáil debate sections whose official heading is exactly these words.
| Date | Debate section |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-07 | Departmental Expenditure |
| 2026-07-07 | Departmental Expenditure |
| 2026-04-16 | Departmental Expenditure |
The questions
Malcolm Byrne
written
2025-11-18 · to Climate
229. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the total legal costs in defending judicial reviews of planning decisions involving his Department and/or agencies within the aegis of his Department for each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63615/25]
Thomas Gould
written
2025-11-18 · to Health
1127. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 964 of 12 November 2025, the reason payment for a 2017 bid was not made until 2020. [63717/25]
Louise O'Reilly
written
2025-11-13 · to Foreign
162. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the provisions which have been made to ensure that agencies, organisations, and charities funded by his Department will meet their obligations under the new AE scheme. [62468/25]
Louise O'Reilly
written
2025-11-13 · to Foreign
163. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a breakdown of every agency, not-for-profit organisation, charity or service provider directly funded by his Department; and the details of each specific directly funded post in each body, in tabular form. [62473/25]
Thomas Gould
written
2025-11-12 · to Taoiseach
185. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Taoiseach for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of spend, in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [61222/25]
Ken O'Flynn
written
2025-11-12 · to Foreign
193. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount his Department has spent on rent regarding premises (details supplied). [61004/25]
Thomas Gould
written
2025-11-12 · to Further and Higher Education
1133. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for a breakdown of all spending on external communications and media, by company, including the amount spent and purpose of spend, in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [61215/25]
Cian O'Callaghan
written
2025-11-06 · to Finance
203. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Finance the amount paid to companies (details supplied) for advice on stocks and the cancelation of warrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60748/25]
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-11-05 · to Justice
156. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide a breakdown of the expenditure on civil justice for 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60367/25]
Pearse Doherty
written
2025-11-04 · to Public Expenditure
541. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide a breakdown of each of the aggregate amounts for 2025 decisions, public sector pay agreement, increase in recipients, other, key policy adjustments and expansion of services, and Ukraine related expenditure respectively set out on Table 2 on page 12 of the Expen…
Séamus McGrath
written
2025-11-04 · to Education
663. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Youth the position in relation to assistant principal allowances for a school (details supplied) in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58007/25]
Marie Sherlock
written
2025-11-04 · to Education
675. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Education and Youth the total amount spent from 2019 to date in 2025, by her Department to a company (details supplied) for services rendered as part of the design and build large scale schools programme. [58117/25]
Marie Sherlock
written
2025-11-04 · to Education
676. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Education and Youth the total amount spent from 2019 to date in 2025, by her Department to a company (details supplied) for services rendered as part of the design, procurement, construction and delivery of a group of employer design school projects in Leinster. [58118/25]
Marie Sherlock
written
2025-11-04 · to Education
677. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Education and Youth the total amount spent from 2019 to date in 2025, by her Department to a company (details supplied) for services rendered as part of the SEN Reconfiguration and Modular Accommodation Programme. [58119/25]
Marie Sherlock
written
2025-11-04 · to Education
678. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Education and Youth the total amount spent from 2019 to date in 2025, by her Department to a company (details supplied) for services rendered as part of the Schools Photovoltaic Programme Phase 1 and 2 Audit Inspection Services of Completed Installations. [58120/25]
Marie Sherlock
written
2025-11-04 · to Education
679. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Education and Youth the total amount spent from 2019 to date in 2025, by her Department to a company (details supplied) for services rendered as part of the Climate Action RePower EU Schools Energy Retrofit Pathfinder Programme (two Lots) - Full Multi Disciplinary Design Team Services. [58121/25]
Peter Roche
written
2025-11-04 · to Health
1736. Deputy Peter Roche asked the Minister for Health the total expenditure in 2024 on health and social care research and development; to provide a detailed breakdown of this expenditure by programme, funding stream and agency; the proportion of the overall health budget this represents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58204/25]
Jen Cummins
written
2025-11-04 · to Health
2021. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Health for a timeline of the development of a centre (details supplied). [59688/25]
Eoin Hayes
written
2025-10-21 · to Justice
607. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the amount spent by his Department on tackling racism each year since 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57098/25]
Eoghan Kenny
written
2025-10-16 · to Public Expenditure
211. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the amount that has been spent by his Department to conduct tendering processes for public infrastructure projects in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56060/25]
Sorca Clarke
written
2025-10-16 · to Health
337. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the ELS allocation by demographics, carryover, public sector pay. [56228/25]
Robert Troy
written
2025-10-15 · to Housing
196. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when local authorities will receive compensation for expenses incurred as a result of storm Éowyn; and if he can confirm that this compensation was committed to earlier in the year. [55646/25]
Emer Currie
written
2025-10-15 · to Agriculture
256. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount spent by his Department and by the Veterinary Council of Ireland on legal fees, investigations and fitness to practice proceedings in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55619/25]
Albert Dolan
written
2025-10-15 · to Health
307. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health to provide the direct web links to the All Agencies Prompt Payments Returns for Q2 2019 through Q4 2020 (details supplied). [55724/25]
Albert Dolan
written
2025-10-14 · to Taoiseach
155. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Taoiseach if his Department and each body under its aegis discloses expenditure on external consultancy and adviser fees, by category (details supplied) in their annual report and or financial statements for each accounting year; if they provide direct web links to the most recent publications where these Section 1.5 disclosures are set out for his Department and…