149. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the gender breakdown of his Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5851/25]
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
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| Month | Questions |
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| 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
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Debated under the same heading
Debates whose official heading is exactly these words.
The questions
163. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of WTE legal advisors employed by his Department in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [6275/25]
181. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the gender breakdown of his Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5848/25]
217. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Transport the gender breakdown of his Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5863/25]
259. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Finance the gender breakdown of his Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5852/25]
282. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the gender breakdown of his Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5858/25]
290. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the gender breakdown of his Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5850/25]
346. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education the gender breakdown of her Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5849/25]
394. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the gender breakdown of his Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5862/25]
448. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of staff sanction requests for housing staff currently awaiting decision with his Department, with a breakdown by local authority. [5995/25]
494. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Social Protection the gender breakdown of his Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5860/25]
509. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Social Protection the specific training on foetal alcohol spectrum disorder that each deciding officer, appeals officer and medical assessor involved in the disability allowance process are required to undertake; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6357/25]
543. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice the gender breakdown of his Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5857/25]
594. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the gender breakdown of his Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5846/25]
646. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the gender breakdown of her Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5847/25]
755. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the gender breakdown of her Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5855/25]
861. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the gender breakdown of his Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5854/25]
874. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the gender breakdown of his Department in respect of principal officers, assistant secretaries and secretaries general, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5859/25]
77. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for an update on the third secretary hiring competition; the number of persons recruited as part of this competition; how many are currently on the recruitment panel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4913/25]
78. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of staff, and their associated grades, assigned to each division within his Department, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4914/25]
79. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of vacancies, including the grade, within his Department, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4915/25]
223. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the top ten websites visited by officials and political staff annually in each of the past ten years via hardware provided to them by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4626/25]
161. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of WTE quantity surveyors employed by his Department as of 30 January 2025; and if he provide same figures as of 31 December 2022, in tabular form. [3759/25]
10. Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Taoiseach the measures his Department is taking to encourage civil servants in his Department to take or avail of special leave or career breaks or other forms of leave to encourage and facilitate Ireland's 2026 EU Presidency, the Government "Career for EU" jobs strategy, and the Department's Gaeilge-Irish language policy and promotion; and if he will make a statement on…
11. Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Taoiseach the number of requests to his Department, including the Office of the Attorney General and Government agencies, that have granted requests for various matters (details supplied); the number of such requests that have been refused; and the grounds on which they have been refused. [2499/25]