1474. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide details of all volunteering supports funding to the Carlow volunteer centre and the Kilkenny volunteer centre and any volunteer information services including core funding, once-off grants, and dormant accounts-funded measures with annual totals, by county, from 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular form. […
Topics / Departmental Funding
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsDepartmental Funding
1,908 questions from 133 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 22 October 2026.
1,908
questions
1,893 written, 15 oral
133
TDs have asked
11
parties and groups
Independents counted together
20
departments asked
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| January 2025 | 20 |
| February 2025 | 76 |
| March 2025 | 73 |
| April 2025 | 98 |
| May 2025 | 83 |
| June 2025 | 104 |
| July 2025 | 126 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 125 |
| October 2025 | 72 |
| November 2025 | 143 |
| December 2025 | 89 |
| January 2026 | 55 |
| February 2026 | 140 |
| March 2026 | 77 |
| April 2026 | 188 |
| May 2026 | 135 |
| June 2026 | 98 |
| July 2026 | 86 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 55 |
| October 2026 | 65 |
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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.
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The questions
1475. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide PPN core funding allocations and payments to the Carlow PPN and Kilkenny PPN including baseline allocation, additional once-off supports if any and total paid with annual totals by county, from 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [48797/25]
1476. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to list all funding provided towards connected hubs, digital hub development or upgrade, and broadband connection points in County Carlow and County Kilkenny including hub/BCP name, location, scheme/measure, approval date, amount approved, amount paid with totals by county, from 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular f…
1477. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide the LIS allocations to Carlow County Council and Kilkenny County Council and the payments made including the number of roads completed, location/MD, allocation, drawdown, and balance with annual totals by county, from 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [48799/25]
1478. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide all tidy towns related funding and grants paid to groups in County Carlow and County Kilkenny listing group name, location, grant type, amount approved, and amount paid with annual totals by county, from 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [48800/25]
1482. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the Dormant Accounts Fund allocations and payments administered by his Department to recipients in County Carlow and County Kilkenny in 2020–to date in 2025; and the measure/initiative, recipient/project, location, approval date, amount approved, and amount paid; with annual totals per county, in tabular form. [4…
1484. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to list all awards under the Covid-19 Stability Fund and any other Covid-19 related Department supports to organisations in County Carlow and County Kilkenny, showing recipient, location, amount approved, and amount paid; with totals by county in 2020 and 2021, in tabular form. [48806/25]
1485. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide details of any additional schemes under which funding was allocated or paid to recipients in County Carlow and County Kilkenny, including scheme name, recipient project, location, approval date, amount approved, and amount paid, with annual totals per county, from 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular form.…
1486. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide a summary table showing the total funding approved and the total drawn down for County Carlow and for County Kilkenny, by year 2020 to date in 2025 and overall totals for the period, in tabular form. [48808/25]
1487. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on an application for funding (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48889/25]
1490. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht his views on the merits of providing grant funding for HEPA filters and similar filtering systems for residents frequently impacted by gorse fires and the related impact of smoke; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48973/25]
94. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment his views on the current layout of the Community Benefit Fund relating to ORESS 2.1; and his views on whether it ensures that small-scale fishermen groups and fishing community groups can access funding as easily as larger groups. [47170/25]
164. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46358/25]
806. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 222 of 26 June 2025, if financial support will be provided to an organisation (details supplied) to support the establishment of a redress scheme for survivors of abuse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45287/25]
826. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of primary and post primary schools in County Offaly that received funding for works under emergency works scheme in the 2023 to 2024 and the 2024 to 2025 school term, in tabular form. [45524/25]
827. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the capital funding her Department provided to a school (details supplied) in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [45525/25]
830. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth her views on the merits of supporting the voluntary work of an organisation (details supplied); if an increase in annual funding will be considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45574/25]
832. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Youth to outline the total amount of Government funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) in 2023, 2024 and 2025. [45664/25]
884. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she has completed her Department’s internal budgetary process for the Budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45992/25]
935. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46354/25]
985. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Education and Youth the funding options available for small rural schools to cover the cost of the discharge licence monitoring fees payable to the local authority in respect of Section 4 licence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46753/25]
987. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether students can avail of a scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46755/25]
1006. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department will engage with a local school (details supplied) in relation to capitation funding. [47029/25]
1074. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the funding stream a school (details supplied) can avail off given that the Arts Council does not regard them as a professional arts organisation thus limiting the grants available and the recognition that comes from such Arts Council acknowledgment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45252/25]
1107. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the length of time it is taking for CAS funding to be drawn down for the development of domestic violence refuges; the length of time for each stage of the process when it comes to funding the purchase safe homes, in durations of weeks, in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44491/25]