317. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to provide an update on the pursuit of reciprocity with other European jurisdictions in relation the macroprudential policy framework for Irish property funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5184/26]
Topics / Departmental Inquiries
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsDepartmental Inquiries
634 questions from 119 TDs, between 5 February 2025 and 15 October 2026.
634
questions
634 written, 0 oral
119
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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| January 2025 | 0 |
| February 2025 | 3 |
| March 2025 | 38 |
| April 2025 | 67 |
| May 2025 | 20 |
| June 2025 | 98 |
| July 2025 | 35 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 19 |
| October 2025 | 27 |
| November 2025 | 31 |
| December 2025 | 49 |
| January 2026 | 42 |
| February 2026 | 95 |
| March 2026 | 24 |
| April 2026 | 71 |
| May 2026 | 9 |
| June 2026 | 1 |
| July 2026 | 1 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 1 |
| October 2026 | 3 |
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
319. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 817 of 13 January 2026, to provide details on the outcome of the 209 compliance interventions completed on qualifying companies in 2024, and the 155 compliance interventions completed in 2025; the number of compliance interventions each year prior since 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [520…
322. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance for an update on the legislation to dissolve NAMA; the total assets still under management by NAMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5250/26]
338. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5207/26]
364. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Questions No’s 1139 1140, 1141, 1142, 1143 of 13 January 2026, the legislative basis for the deadline; the commitment which can be offered where the needs of a child changes after 1 October; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5265/26]
372. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No.1179 of 13 January 2026, the reason the standardised school year was not applied in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5372/26]
26. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to review correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4647/26]
1033. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Youth when a person (details supplied) will receive additional pay owed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73974/25]
1351. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2153/26]
1353. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 5 November 2025, to clarify whether his reply, in which he stated that he “asked that a review be undertaken of all existing Memoranda of Understanding,” means that all existing MoUs between the NPWS and 28 external organisations will be subject to the specific review he requested; an…
1375. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline on when the boundary review into local electoral areas will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74261/25]
1376. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 86 of 9 July 2025, the date he will provide a substantive response; if his Department will provide this Deputy with a copy of the memorandum of understanding that was provided to inform the Oireachtas Committee charged with development of the 1976 Act; the date his Department will make all …
1377. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm unequivocally to this Deputy whether, the State is legally required and empowered to manage all wild birds, including urban gulls, as laid down in Article 9 of the EU Birds Directive and pertinent National legislation (primary and secondary); if he is the Minister responsible for the necessary and consequenti…
1378. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether the Elective Derogation Regulation (details supplied) must be restored with immediate effect, before the 2026 breeding season; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74331/25]
1379. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No’s, 148,149,150,151,152 of 16 July 2025, if he will provide a complete copy of the Department/NPWS’s correspondence concerning gulls and public health and safety with the HSE in 2017, as cited in his reply; and if he will provide copies of any consistent/similar correspondence that his Depart…
1380. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No’s 148,149,150,151,152 of 16 July 2025, and his statement in his reply that he is satisfied that the NPWS carries out their functions in a balanced and measured manner in line with the legislative provisions for the protection of wild birds, if is satisfied that, since the withdrawal of the p…
1381. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether his Department or the National Parks and Wildlife Service has issued any public notices that it is perfectly legal under the Wildlife Acts 1976 and 2000 (Amended) to remove nests from occupied buildings provided they do not contain eggs or hatched chicks; if no such public notice has been issued, and as the Houses of th…
1382. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a summary of all wildlife licences granted in the period 2019 to 2025 in respect of herring gulls and removal of their nests and eggs; the licence date, location, the reason for which licences were sought, the approved control actions; and the specific legal grounds for the granting of the licences; and if he will ma…
1385. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it is planned to review the local election boundaries in advance of the 2029 Local Elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74363/25]
1391. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to re designate the Broadmeadow estuary at Corballis, Donabate an exclusion zone for shooting given this forms part of the Broadmeadow Way Greenway cycle and pedestrian route from Malahide to Newbridge park when this is completed in 2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74470/25]
1425. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the proposals to review the electoral boundaries for county council municipal districts in advance of the next local elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [75278/25]
2518. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1104 of 18 November 2025, if a similar “snapshot” can be provided for all patients included in the external expert review established following the independent audit of hip surgeries at CHI and Cappagh Orthopaedic Hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2316/26]
654. Deputy Máire Devine asked the Minister for Health for assistance in relation to a hospital discharge (details supplied). [73430/25]
726. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Health to reply to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73689/25]
73. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to report on the salaries of the CEO and the Directors of the deposit return scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72915/25]