446. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the amount her Department and any body under her aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and organisation in the years 2020 to 1 November 2025, in tabular form. [66076/25]
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
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.
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| Month | Questions |
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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 |
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.
The TDs who asked most
Members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them. Each question counts once.
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The questions
447. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the amount her Department and any body under her aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and organisation in the years 2020 to 1 November 2025, in tabular form. [66094/25]
468. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide the Department’s annual expenditure on State Claims Agency costs for the years 2020–2025. [66349/25]
486. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the amount his Department and any body under his aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and organisation in the years 2020 to 1 November 2025, in tabular form. [66074/25]
487. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the amount his Department and any body under his aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and organisation in the years 2020 to 1 November 2025, in tabular form. [66092/25]
495. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to provide the Department’s annual expenditure on State Claims Agency costs for the years 2020–2025. [66345/25]
556. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount his Department and any body under his aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and organisation in the years 2020 to 1 November 2025, in tabular form. [66082/25]
557. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount his Department and any body under his aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and organisation in the years 2020 to 1 November 2025, in tabular form. [66100/25]
588. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the Department’s annual expenditure on State Claims Agency costs for the years 2020–2025. [66362/25]
607. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount his Department and any body under his aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and organisation in the years 2020 to 1 November 2025, in tabular form. [66086/25]
608. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount his Department and any body under his aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and organisation in the years 2020 to 1 November 2025, in tabular form. [66104/25]
613. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide the Department’s annual expenditure on State Claims Agency costs for the years 2020–2025. [66367/25]
693. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide the Department’s annual expenditure on State Claims Agency costs for the years 2020–2025. [66363/25]
737. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount his Department and any body under his aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and organisation in the years 2020 to 1 November 2025, in tabular form. [66071/25]
738. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount his Department and any body under his aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and organisation in the years 2020 to 1 November 2025, in tabular form. [66089/25]
745. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide the Department’s annual expenditure on State Claims Agency costs for the years 2020–2025. [66340/25]
929. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the amount her Department and any body under her aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and organisation in the years 2020 to 1 November 2025, in tabular form. [66081/25]
930. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the amount her Department and any body under her aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and organisation in the years 2020 to 1 November 2025, in tabular form. [66099/25]
965. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the amount his Department and any body under his aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and organisation in the years 2020 to 1 November 2025, in tabular form. [66080/25]
966. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the amount his Department and any body under his aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and organisation in the years 2020 to 1 November 2025, in tabular form. [66098/25]
975. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the amount his Department and any body under his aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and organisation in the years 2020 to 1 November 2025, in tabular form. [66085/25]
976. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the amount his Department and any body under his aegis have spent on the services of a company (details supplied), by year and organisation in the years 2020 to 1 November 2025, in tabular form. [66103/25]
977. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide the Department’s annual expenditure on State Claims Agency costs for the years 2020–2025. [66365/25]
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]
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]