164. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for details of the dates and attendees of all meetings if the Biomethane Implementation Group, which is implementing the national biomethane strategy, chaired by his Department. [35315/25]
Topics / Departmental Meetings
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsDepartmental Meetings
311 questions from 71 TDs, between 5 February 2025 and 21 October 2026.
311
questions
309 written, 2 oral
71
TDs have asked
10
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 | 0 |
| February 2025 | 13 |
| March 2025 | 13 |
| April 2025 | 35 |
| May 2025 | 7 |
| June 2025 | 33 |
| July 2025 | 33 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 5 |
| October 2025 | 3 |
| November 2025 | 13 |
| December 2025 | 20 |
| January 2026 | 17 |
| February 2026 | 11 |
| March 2026 | 38 |
| April 2026 | 24 |
| May 2026 | 8 |
| June 2026 | 9 |
| July 2026 | 11 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 9 |
| October 2026 | 9 |
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
167. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he has met with a group (details supplied); and if not, if he will do so in the coming months. [35320/25]
168. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to list the dates and attendees of all meetings he and or his Department officials have had with the Environmental Protection Agency since he took office. [35322/25]
444. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has met with a group (details supplied); and, if not, if he will do so in the coming months. [35319/25]
445. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to list the dates and attendees of all meetings he and-or his Department officials have had with the Environmental Protection Agency since he took office. [35324/25]
500. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of times he has met with representatives from An Bord Pleanála since he took office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36231/25]
503. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to advise when the new Countryside Forum for Nature is to hold its first meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36240/25]
609. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has met with a group (details supplied); and if not, if he will do so in the coming months. [35318/25]
610. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to list the dates and attendees of all meetings he and or his Department officials have had with the Environmental Protection Agency since he took office. [35323/25]
774. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Health if she and her officials will meet with an organisation to discuss their policy concerns (details supplied). [35621/25]
194. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 7 of 18 June 2025, the position regarding any engagement he or his Department’s officials have had with their counterparts in India and Pakistan in relation to concerns about any breaches of the Indus Water Treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35026/25]
249. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the engagement he has had with large social media companies since he took office on the topic of their ability to monitor online hatred and discrimination and creating safe online communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34943/25]
307. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the inception meeting held on 9 June 2025 concerning the review of the 2001 planning guidelines for local authorities on early learning and childcare settings; to summarise the key findings discussed; to outline when the next meeting is scheduled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35147/25]
308. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to outline the number of times the working group between her Department, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Department of Education and Youth has met from 2024 to date in 2025; the dates when these meetings took place; when the next meeting will take place; to outline the number of times the working group is…
475. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if he met with a person (details supplied) during his recent visit to the US. [33961/25]
483. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he is next scheduled to meet the CEO of Gas Networks Ireland. [33521/25]
823. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health the date on which she will meet with a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34064/25]
895. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 554 of 7 May 2025, for a list of all patient representative and civil society groups that the gender healthcare programme has organised meetings with to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34360/25]
944. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliament Question No. 297 of 12 February 2025, for an update on the status of the discussions with a union (details supplied); the reasons for the delays in these discussions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33990/25]
709. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she has engaged with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to proposed changes to the guardian ad litem scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32316/25]
724. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied); if she would be open to meeting with the family in question; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32516/25]
816. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health when she next intends to visit Beaumont Hospital. [32166/25]
877. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Health regarding any engagement she has had with an organisation (details supplied); if she plans to meet with this group in advance of the summer Dáil recess; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32510/25]
410. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the dates and attendees at all meetings he has had with the Garda Commissioner since he took office. [31385/25]
526. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health to outline any meetings she has held with the CEO of the HSE, the CEO of CHI and the Secretary General of her Department on the HIQA report into the use of non-medical grade springs on children attending CHI hospitals, on the audit into osteotomies on children attending CHI and on any reports into the use of NTPF funding at CHI; the dates of the meetings and m…