260. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht to provide details of the number of legal actions against his Department that have been resolved without going to court in line with the 2023 State Litigation Principles; if his Department is fully applying the State Litigation Principles in seeking to resolve any current or outstanding legal actions; and if he will make …
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A subject heading for parliamentary questionsDepartmental Legal Cases
287 questions from 34 TDs, between 5 February 2025 and 6 October 2026.
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questions
286 written, 1 oral
34
TDs have asked
10
parties and groups
Independents counted together
18
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 | 0 |
| April 2025 | 2 |
| May 2025 | 1 |
| June 2025 | 9 |
| July 2025 | 83 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 1 |
| October 2025 | 4 |
| November 2025 | 17 |
| December 2025 | 2 |
| January 2026 | 126 |
| February 2026 | 4 |
| March 2026 | 2 |
| April 2026 | 25 |
| May 2026 | 2 |
| June 2026 | 2 |
| July 2026 | 2 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 1 |
| October 2026 | 1 |
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
528. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of legal actions relating to the provision of education supports that remain live from 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28574/26]
529. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of legal actions relating to the provision of education supports that were brought by parents during 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28575/26]
530. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of legal actions relating to the provision of education supports that were threatened during 2025 but did not proceed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28576/26]
1521. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she plans to fight legal cases against the parents of children who had to go to court to obtain a school placement for September 2025. [27035/26]
2046. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of claims that have been made against the State by private providers of cancelled IPAS or Ukrainian accommodation contracts in each of the past five years. [24957/26]
2047. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the value of the claims that have been made against the State by private providers of cancelled IPAS or Ukrainian accommodation contracts in each of the past five years. [24958/26]
2048. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the amount that has been paid out by the State to private providers for cancelled IPAS or Ukrainian accommodation contracts in each of the past five years. [24959/26]
2125. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health the amount paid in legal costs to each of the top ten legal firms representing plaintiffs in medical negligence cases in 2024 and 2025; the number of cases payments relate to, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20318/26]
2126. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Health the amount paid out in legal costs to each of the top ten named legal firms representing the agency in medical negligence cases in 2024 and 2025; the number of cases payments relate to, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20319/26]
1053. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if her Department, or any agency working on its behalf, ask families to sign a non-disclosure agreement in relation to compensation that was received as part of the Hep C/HIV scandal [11629/26]
1054. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if the HSE, or any agency working on its behalf, ask individuals to sign any agreements or contracts of any kind in relation to citizens who were infected by Hepatitis C or HIV by any State services; and if she will detail these agreements or contracts were, and provide an example of them [11630/26]
505. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount spent by the Government defending challenges to the assessment of need for children in the State over each of the past three years; the number of cases the State defended in each of those three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11148/26]
703. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the progress being made by the Government taking landmark legal cases against companies who manufactured and sold defective concrete blocks to the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9654/26]
245. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment when the revised European Works Council (EWC) Directive will be transposed into Irish law; the process for the transposition, and the consultation that will take place; if there is a timetable for the transposition for the Directive; if the Government will use the transposition process to address the issues raised by the infringements p…
213. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Taoiseach whether his Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against the employer by a court or tribunal, the legal costs of any current or concluded litigation taken by an employee or former employee against that Department or body, in each of the past five years; if so, to provide details of the number of such …
214. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Taoiseach the basis on which his Department, or a body under its aegis, may fund the legal costs of an employee or former employee in litigation where that employee is in dispute with, or taking proceedings against, the same body. [2047/26]
215. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Taoiseach whether the funding of employee legal costs in disputes against his Department, or a body under its aegis, is standard practice; if not, the circumstances in which such funding may be permitted. [2065/26]
216. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Taoiseach to outline the guidance, codes, circulars or directions that govern the payment of legal costs by his Department, and bodies under its aegis, in employment-related disputes, including any requirements under the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies or Departmental sanction arrangements. [2083/26]
217. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Taoiseach whether the funding of employee legal costs in litigation against the employing body could give rise to governance, accountability, or value for money concerns; whether his Department has issued any guidance in this regard. [2101/26]
218. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Taoiseach whether his Department has reviewed, or intends to review, the practice of Departments, and bodies under their aegis, funding legal costs in employment disputes involving those same bodies; and if so, the outcome or timeline for such a review. [2119/26]
219. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Taoiseach whether arrangements to fund legal costs in employment disputes involving his Department, or bodies under its aegis, require the prior approval of his Department or the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation. [2137/26]
287. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether her Department, or any body under its aegis, has funded, or is funding, other than where legal costs were awarded against the employer by a court or tribunal, the legal costs of any current or concluded litigation taken by an employee or former employee against that Department or body, in each of the past five years; if so, to provide d…
288. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the basis on which her Department, or a body under its aegis, may fund the legal costs of an employee or former employee in litigation where that employee is in dispute with, or taking proceedings against, the same body; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2039/26]
289. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether the funding of employee legal costs in disputes against her Department, or a body under its aegis, is standard practice; if not, the circumstances in which such funding may be permitted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2057/26]