723. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the amount of expenditure on off-site storage solutions for the past five years to date; if he will provide a breakdown of items (details supplied) not stored in his Department on annual basis. [50499/25]
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
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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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Debated under the same heading
Debates whose official heading is exactly these words.
The questions
178. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he is concerned by the European Defence Agency's latest report which showed Irish defence spending decreasing as a percentage of national GDP; and if he is confident defence spending as percentage of GDP will increase over the coming years. [48259/25]
179. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence for an overview of capital expenditure between 2021-2025; and the breakdown of the allocation, by service branch as a percentage of total capital spend. [48260/25]
180. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the capital versus current expenditure breakdown of the €90 million recent H145M purchase, without breaching contract confidentiality. [48261/25]
181. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if the recent H145M purchase is for the Defence Forces; and if the Garda air support unit will continue to have its own fleet of helicopters. [48262/25]
316. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Finance to provide a full breakdown, by Department, of current expenditure overruns to date in 2025, including both voted and non-voted expenditure; and how these figures compare with the allocations approved in Budget 2025. [48392/25]
473. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated cost of paying student teachers on placement in schools as part of their college degree. [47963/25]
562. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the amount her Department pays to religious orders or trusts for the rental of school property, broken down by county, in tabular form. [48818/25]
60. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46346/25]
120. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the breakdown of all Exchequer funding provided to the Tallaght district heating scheme; and the proportion this was of the total cost of the project in each of the years since its inception to date, in tabular form. [45171/25]
121. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the breakdown of all Exchequer funding provided to the Poolbeg Waste to Energy Project; and the proportion this was of the total cost of the project in each of the years since its inception to date, in tabular form. [45172/25]
122. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the breakdown of all Exchequer funding provided to the district heating at the glass bottle site; and the proportion this was of the total cost of the project in each of the years since its inception to date, in tabular form. [45173/25]
221. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46345/25]
367. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Transport to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46351/25]
543. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Finance to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46348/25]
640. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46347/25]
699. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46355/25]
1088. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46359/25]
1390. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46357/25]
1519. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the full cost of the provision of security at the Heywood Road modular housing project for Ukrainians in Clonmel, County Tipperary; the length of time this level of security will be provided at site; the reason for the continued levels of security given that it will hinder integration efforts; and if he will make a statement on the…
1652. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46344/25]
1702. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the funding available to deliver a resilient public-safety radio capability for An Garda Síochána, interoperable with other blue-light agencies and with cross-Border partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47197/25]
1703. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the estimated financial cost to An Garda Síochána of the State visit by President Joe Biden in 2023. [47314/25]
1783. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46356/25]
1983. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46343/25]