377. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department holds historical or current records identifying Achill Mission Estate Commonage, Plot No. 96V2, at Keel, Mayo, including historical maps, predecessor plot references, Land Parcel Identification System records, grazing assessments, management plans and agri-environmental scheme records; whether changes in the mapped …
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A subject heading for parliamentary questionsDepartmental Records
20 questions from 15 TDs, between 25 February 2025 and 22 October 2026.
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Independents counted together
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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.
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| July 2025 | 2 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 2 |
| October 2025 | 2 |
| November 2025 | 2 |
| December 2025 | 0 |
| January 2026 | 1 |
| February 2026 | 0 |
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| April 2026 | 1 |
| May 2026 | 1 |
| June 2026 | 1 |
| July 2026 | 0 |
| 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.
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306. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department maintains a risk register; if so, if copies of the register since 2022 will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66069/26]
175. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department owns, holds a lease or holds any other beneficial interest in a property (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44361/26]
137. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Defence if her Department has any records pertaining to a 19th century British Army rifle and musket firing range at Woodcock Hill, Meelick, County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32713/26]
265. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the reason over 1,000 documents relating to maternal and neonatal safety, including all maternity safety statements from 2015 to mid-2025, which were previously published in their own section of the HSE website, are no longer publicly accessible in that format since January 2026; whether this change reduces transparency and the ability of independent researcher…
600. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 489 of 25 November 2025, if the review of filing lists and other records held in his Department provided information relating to the records of the Departmental Council working party over the period 1982 to 1983 that produced report No. 1635; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3521/26]
489. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if certain Departmental records are missing from archives (details supplied); the action his Department has taken to locate these records; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [66218/25]
761. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the national records that are available on the number of miscarriages, and/or stillbirths, which occurred due to acts of violent crime or accidents, from 2016 to 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63243/25]
245. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if he will investigate the reason the records of the Departmental Council and its working party created during the period 1982/83 relating to the process and agreement for the transfer of civil servants from the former Department of Posts and Telegraphs to An Post and Bord Telecom Éireann are not available in the official archives; and i…
246. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 291 of 29 April 2025, if a copy of the documentation stated could be supplied. [53445/25]
2169. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health the location of records relating to Eastern Health Board-funded children’s residential facilities (details supplied). [44952/25]
2658. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Health if she can confirm that all files detailing the State’s relationship with providers of thalidomide are publicly available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47320/25]
1925. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department maintains a centralised record of all facilities that have been used under contract to house beneficiaries of temporary protection; whether it retains information on facilities that are no longer under contract; whether this data has ever been compiled or analysed to inform future planning or coordination with other…
1926. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether his Department maintains any oversight or follow-up once a contract for the use of a facility to accommodate beneficiaries of temporary protection is terminated; whether his Department tracks or evaluates what subsequently happens to such facilities and their local impact; and if not, whether his Department believes it has an…
1. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Taoiseach the number of certificates of withholding from public inspection of departmental records approved by his Department under the National Archives Act 1986 in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 respectively, by Department or State agency, in tabular form. [24515/25]
776. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the number of approvals granted to plant protection products between 2017 and 2024, broken down by year; the number of approvals granted to plant protection products, by product type between 2017 and 2024, by year; and the number of approvals granted to plant protection products, by company between 2017 and 2024,…
777. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of plant protection product (PPP) applications before the pesticides control division currently; the number of total approvals for PPPs expected in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17095/25]
514. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons aged 25 years or younger in 2023 and 2024 who are neither in full-time education or receiving disability, invalidity or illness benefit payments, but who are receiving jobseekers' payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15495/25]
1478. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health the number of babies born with Down syndrome in Ireland, based on records of births in each of the years 2017 to 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10612/25]
722. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update in respect of his Department's work with Officials from the National Archives in relation to identifying and cataloguing the Land Commission records. [8102/25]