297. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Transport the number of vacancies at each grade of higher executive officer and above currently within his Department; and the estimated timeframe to fill each of those vacancies, in tabular form. [16863/25]
Topics / Departmental Staff
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsDepartmental Staff
940 questions from 87 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 20 October 2026.
940
questions
935 written, 5 oral
87
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 |
|---|---|
| January 2025 | 67 |
| February 2025 | 82 |
| March 2025 | 60 |
| April 2025 | 70 |
| May 2025 | 29 |
| June 2025 | 81 |
| July 2025 | 62 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 16 |
| October 2025 | 12 |
| November 2025 | 87 |
| December 2025 | 14 |
| January 2026 | 50 |
| February 2026 | 33 |
| March 2026 | 110 |
| April 2026 | 32 |
| May 2026 | 55 |
| June 2026 | 35 |
| July 2026 | 12 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 12 |
| October 2026 | 21 |
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
305. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport to provide a list with the job titles and salaries of all Ministerial staff, and Department private secretaries. [17065/25]
356. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance to provide a list with the job titles and salaries of all Ministerial staff, and Department private secretaries. [17054/25]
391. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide a list with the job titles and salaries of all Ministerial staff, and Department private secretaries. [17060/25]
411. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a list with the job titles and salaries of all Ministerial staff, and Department private secretaries. [17052/25]
507. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education to provide a list with the job titles and salaries of all Ministerial staff, and Department private secretaries. [17051/25]
584. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide a list with the job titles and salaries of all Ministerial staff, and Department private secretaries. [17064/25]
619. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of staff employed directly by his Department; and the total cost of this staffing for each year from 2020 to date. [16910/25]
627. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list with the job titles and salaries of all Ministerial staff, and Department private secretaries. [17058/25]
628. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of advisors he has appointed, their names, responsibilities and a brief biography of their professional and employment experience. [17238/25]
670. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of WTE forensic accountants directly employed by his Department in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [16877/25]
675. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide a list with the job titles and salaries of all Ministerial staff, and Department private secretaries. [17062/25]
702. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of posts of detective inspector within the Dublin Metropolitan Region that are currently filled; and the number of these positions at these ranks that are currently vacant, in tabular form. [16866/25]
715. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice to provide a list with the job titles and salaries of all Ministerial staff, and Department private secretaries. [17059/25]
716. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of civilian clerks working in each Garda division for the last 10 years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17092/25]
748. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of technical staff grades of technical agricultural officer supervisory agricultural officer and district superintendent that retired or transferred out from agricultural environmental schemes division in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [16515/25]
749. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of technical grade positions for all the grades (technical agricultural officer, supervisory agricultural officer and district superintendent) that have been advertised and subsequently filled for each of these grades; and the number of positions that are currently vacant in the agricultural environmental schemes division and…
774. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a list with the job titles and salaries of all Ministerial staff, and Department private secretaries. [17084/25]
775. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the resourcing of the pesticides control division in his Department including by number of staff members, annual budget, and any increases or decreases in resourcing levels, broken down by year between 2017 and 2024, in tabular form. [17093/25]
822. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE vacancies, by job title currently at Clontarf, Kilbarrack and Coolock children's disability network teams; when each of those vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [16996/25]
824. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a list with the job titles and salaries of all Ministerial staff, and Department private secretaries. [17049/25]
828. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE physiotherapists and social workers based at Clondalkin Children's Disability Network Team in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [17248/25]
829. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE speech and language therapists based at Rossecourt Children's Disability, Network Team in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [17249/25]
830. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE psychologists based at Palmerstown Children's Disability Network Team in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [17250/25]
835. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE dietitians working in Galway CDNTs in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [17394/25]