200. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a detailed breakdown of the funding he has allocated to accelerate the delivery of green hydrogen, broken down by programme in each of the years from 2020 to date, in tabular form; to report on progress toward the 2030 target; his views that the measures introduced will be sufficient to reach this target; and if he will make a s…
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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
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 | 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 |
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
201. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a detailed breakdown of an investment (details supplied) broken down by allocation; and the date on which this allocation took place, in tabular form. [50410/26]
291. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to provide funding to celebrate a significant event in Portmagee, County Kerry, the 100th Anniversary of the Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh and the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50517/26]
292. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the amount of funding allocated to tourism development projects in County Kerry for each of the past five years and to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50519/26]
564. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the grants available for community centres/halls; the grants that may be availed of later in the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50506/26]
116. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Transport the total value of funding sought under Round one of the wheelchair accessible vehicle grant scheme 2026; the total funding available under that round; the number of applicants who would have qualified for grant support had sufficient funding been available; whether consideration is being given to increasing the annual funding allocation to the scheme; and if h…
119. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a breakdown of the funding provided to district heating in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form; to provide a detailed breakdown of the specific projects this funding was allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48823/26]
120. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a breakdown of all district heating projects that have been awarded funding through the Governments Climate Action Fund; the funding provided to each project in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [48824/26]
121. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a breakdown of all district heating projects that have been awarded funding through the EU grant funding; and the funding provided to each project in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [48825/26]
122. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a breakdown of all district heating projects that have been awarded funding from a local authority; and the funding provided to each project in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [48826/26]
127. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a breakdown of the funding provided and expanded measures under the national residential retrofitting plan (details supplied); the amount spent on each of these measures; the number of households this expanded support provided to, broken down by each measure and overall, in tabular form [48838/26]
128. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to outline in detail the new and expanded measures he is taking to "providing support for older people accessing home energy retrofits under the Healthy Age Friendly Homes initiative (details supplied) [48840/26]
129. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to report on new pilot schemes focusing on improving options for heat pump technology, including support for high temperature heat pumps; the amount of funding that has been allocated to these pilots; and the amount that has been spent broken down by pilot scheme (details supplied). [48841/26]
130. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to report on improved grants to support local authorities and approved housing bodies; the estimated funding allocated; the number of grants that have been awarded and the amount spent to date (details supplied) [48842/26]
131. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to report on the recent measures to increased heat pump grants to €12,500; the number of applications received on average per month before this change; the number received since the uplift was announced; the number allocated on average per month before the uplift was announced; the number allocated per month since the uplift was announced;…
132. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to report on his "greater focus on supports for undertaking retrofitting on an incremental basis"; to outline in detail the meaning of this in practice; and the way this has translated to delivery. [48844/26]
133. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to report on increased fixed grant levels for attic and cavity wall insultation with values set at up to 80% of median cost; up to 100% of median cost for those on qualifying welfare payments and for first time buyers, subject to scheme conditions; the funding allocated to this measure per year; the numbers of grants allocated before the c…
134. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if the capital allocation for retrofitting will be €898 million as outlined on page 10 of the Governments National Retrofit Plan (details supplied). [48916/26]
135. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a detailed breakdown of the funding allocated to renewable energy communities; the amount of this funding this has been drawn down in each of the years 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48917/26]
136. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a breakdown of the allocated amount to the enabling grant for renewable energy communities; and the amount of the funding that has been drawn down in each of the years since the grant has been available, in tabular form. [48919/26]
137. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the funding allocated to sustainable energy communities in each of the years 2020 to 2025, and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [48920/26]
140. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a detailed breakdown of the PTE and FTE staff that are employed as part of the community enabling framework; to provide a breakdown of the FTE and PTE employed as part of the SRESS; the cost to employ an additional FTE and PTE as part of the SRESS; the cost to employ an additional FTE and PTE as part of the community enabling fr…
141. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the total number of staff broken down by FTE and PTE that are employed to support renewable energy communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48924/26]
202. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Transport whether his Department has approved funding for a road (details supplied) that faced storm damage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49206/26]
330. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to ensure the projects in Laois, Offaly, Westmeath and Longford run under the STEM inclusion funding from the EU can continue, after the funding from the EU has ceased. [48801/26]