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]
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 |
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
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The questions
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 Expenditure Report, by De…
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
2021. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Health for a timeline of the development of a centre (details supplied). [59688/25]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 for each aegis body…
168. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade 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 …
178. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment his expenditure on advertising, with details of the objective, duration, social media platforms, reach, audience, CTR and cost of each social media advertising campaign, in 2023 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54676/25]