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Health Services

2,809 questions from 142 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 22 October 2026.

2,809
questions
2,798 written, 11 oral
142
TDs have asked
11
parties and groups
Independents counted together
7
departments asked

Questions per month

The record holds no questions for August, when the Dáil does not sit.

Jan 2025Oct 2026
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MonthQuestions
January 202556
February 202578
March 202573
April 2025110
May 2025158
June 2025127
July 2025135
August 20250
September 2025193
October 202556
November 2025157
December 2025147
January 2026238
February 2026102
March 2026141
April 2026243
May 2026222
June 2026290
July 2026123
August 20260
September 202673
October 202687

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.

  • 100% RDR9 from 1 TD · 1 seat today
  • Aontú75 from 2 TDs · 2 seats today
  • Fianna Fáil616 from 33 TDs · 48 seats today
  • Fine Gael281 from 23 TDs · 38 seats today
  • Green Party16 from 1 TD · 1 seat today
  • Independent166 from 14 TDs · 15 seats today
  • Independent Ireland421 from 4 TDs · 4 seats today
  • Labour Party222 from 11 TDs · 11 seats today
  • People Before Profit-Solidarity85 from 3 TDs · 3 seats today
  • Sinn Féin676 from 38 TDs · 39 seats today

The TDs who asked most

Members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them. Each question counts once.

  1. 407
  2. 140
  3. 137
  4. 101
  5. 79
  6. 78
  7. 53
  8. 49

Asked of

Debated under the same heading

Debates whose official heading is exactly these words.

The questions

David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
580. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost of increasing funding for patient advocacy by 10%. [28672/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
584. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost of increasing funding for dementia specific day care by 10%. [28677/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
585. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the existing funding for community sector older person services, by service type, excluding home support. [28678/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
586. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost of returning funding for local and regional drug and alcohol taskforce to 2010 levels; and the cost to increase funding by 1% of these levels. [28679/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
587. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the existing provision and cost of residential recovery, medical detoxification, and related step-down capacity, in tabular form; and the cost to increase this by 10%. [28680/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
588. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost to waive assessment fees for addiction services. [28681/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
591. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the net additional cost to fully implement the safe staffing framework. [28684/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
593. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the net cost of a 1% shift in favour of advanced nurse practitioners within the nursing workforce; the training cost; and the number of nurses this would relate to. [28686/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
594. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the annual expenditure on HIQA since 2020, in tabular form. [28687/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
595. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated net additional cost of providing two rounds of publicly funded IVF. [28688/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
596. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the current budget provision for IVF. [28689/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
598. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the net additional cost of providing full emergency cardiac services at University Hospital Waterford. [28691/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
599. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of implementing the new National Rare Disease strategy. [28692/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
600. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost of implementing the new national adult palliative care policy. [28693/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
601. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost of implementing the HSE Climate Action Strategy. [28694/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
602. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost of fully funding the Traveller Health Action Plan. [28695/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
603. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost of fully funding all existing national strategies and such policies, in tabular form; and the funding allocated to date for each strategy or policy, by year. [28696/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
604. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost of 100 older person day service places. [28697/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
605. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated revenue and capital cost associated with the set-up of a new Jigsaw centre, in tabular form; and the whole-time equivalent staffing requirements. [28698/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
606. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost of an additional community CAMHS team, CAMHS-ID team, and early intervention in psychosis team, in tabular form; and the WTE staffing required. [28699/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
607. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the current and capital cost of ten eating disorder inpatient beds, in tabular form. [28700/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
608. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost, revenue and capital, and staffing requirements for implementing the eating disorder services model of care in full. [28701/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
609. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of the full rollout of the self-harm and suicide reduction programme, by measure, in tabular form; and the cost of the full and appropriate provision of SCAN nurses at each emergency department and the number of existing and required nurses, by location. [28702/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
610. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of full implementation of the ADHD in Adult National Clinical Programme. [28703/25]
David Cullinane Written 29 May 2025 · to Health
611. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost of funding two WTE consultant liaison psychiatrists, net of existing whole-time equivalents, in every emergency department (ED), in tabular form; and the number of existing WTE at each ED. [28704/25]