36. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends to abide by the legal analysis of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel by conducting or commissioning a due diligence review to examine private enterprises incorporated in the State and their dealings with the…
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369 questions from 62 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 20 October 2026.
369
questions
322 written, 47 oral
62
TDs have asked
10
parties and groups
Independents counted together
17
departments asked
Questions per month
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| Month | Questions |
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| January 2025 | 3 |
| February 2025 | 36 |
| March 2025 | 3 |
| April 2025 | 47 |
| May 2025 | 25 |
| June 2025 | 13 |
| July 2025 | 44 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 50 |
| October 2025 | 32 |
| November 2025 | 22 |
| December 2025 | 6 |
| January 2026 | 19 |
| February 2026 | 8 |
| March 2026 | 22 |
| April 2026 | 2 |
| May 2026 | 15 |
| June 2026 | 3 |
| July 2026 | 13 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 2 |
| October 2026 | 4 |
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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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The questions
40. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to clarify the Government’s position in respect of issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40790/25]
43. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 199 of 8 July 2025, to state, as was asked in the original question, the total number of the 57,012 Palestinians killed who he accepts to have been civilians; the number the Department accepts to have been militants and members of Hamas or other armed groups; and if he will make a statement on th…
46. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if vetting was undertaken for the evacuation of Irish citizens and their dependants from Israel to ensure that they were not involved in war crimes. [41010/25]
80. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise the reported deaths of civilians in Gaza from hunger with the Israeli Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42373/25]
102. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been contacted in relation to an Irish citizen seeking the evacuation of his father from Gaza; and if he will address the matters raised (details supplied). [43204/25]
104. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to coordinate with his counterpart at the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to ensure that a family connected with Irish citizens are evacuated from Gaza (details supplied). [43284/25]
105. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to work with his counterparts at the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to ensure that the family of a Palestinian individual living in Ireland (details supplied) are evacuated from Gaza. [43287/25]
135. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of evacuation processes in place for university students granted places at Irish universities to escape Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43962/25]
136. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason there have been no evacuation flights from Gaza since April 2025; the reason there are no plans for further evacuation flights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43963/25]
146. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he accepts the legal analysis of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel that each state is obliged to undertake a thorough due diligence review of its aid and assistance to Israel; if he intends to conduct or commission a…
1958. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to engage with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to ensure that a humanitarian worker (details supplied) is evacuated from Gaza. [41236/25]
1959. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration If he will work with his counterpart at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to ensure that an individual and his family (details supplied) are evacuated from Gaza. [41242/25]
1966. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to intervene to ensure that a person (details supplied) who has been accepted for a place in UCD is granted a student visa to exit Gaza and take up their studies in Ireland. [41327/25]
2535. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Health the details of any coordination with other states on evacuation flights from Gaza, similar to the coordination with the Slovakian Government in December 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43964/25]
2585. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Health who is eligible for evacuation from Gaza to Ireland on medical grounds; and if people requiring medical attention in Gaza are eligible for evacuation if they are first cousins of Irish citizens. [41011/25]
3306. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Health if she will provide details of evacuation processes in place for medical evacuees attempting to escape Gaza; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44567/25]
99. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Finance the engagement there has been between his Department, other Government Departments, agencies and legal advisers in relation to the facilitation by the Central Bank of the sale of Israeli war bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39278/25]
119. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to outline the State's investment through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund in companies operating in the illegal Israeli settlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39431/25]
202. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the plans the Government has to be represented at the conference on Gaza organised by the Hague Group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39399/25]
2. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether his Department has had engagement with, or diplomatic representations from, US counterparts around the exclusion of services from the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38290/25]
4. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade on his recent engagements with other states regarding the genocide in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38251/25]
10. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he and his Department formally submitted an additional complaint to the International Criminal Court regarding the murder of thousands of Palestinian civilians by the Israel Defense Forces while queuing for food; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37868/25]
14. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the import of trade in services from the occupied Palestinian territories, and exports from Ireland to the occupied Palestinian territories in both goods and services, have been excluded from the general scheme of the Israeli settlements in the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018; and if he…
16. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on his position in relation to the EU-Israel association agreement. [38030/25]