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Social Welfare Inspections

3 questions from 3 TDs, between 18 February 2025 and 8 April 2025.

3
questions
3 written, 0 oral
3
TDs have asked
3
parties and groups
Independents counted together
1
departments asked

Questions per month

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

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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.

  • Independent1 from 1 TD · 15 seats today
  • Labour Party1 from 1 TD · 11 seats today
  • Sinn Féin1 from 1 TD · 39 seats today

The TDs who asked most

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

  1. Alan Kelly
    1
  2. Barry Heneghan
    1
  3. Mairéad Farrell
    1

Asked of

The questions

Barry Heneghan Written 8 Apr 2025 · to Social
656. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Social Protection if a memorandum of understanding or formal data-sharing agreement exists between An Garda Síochána and the Department of Social Protection concerning the transfer of personal data for social welfare investigations; whether such an agreement includes provisions governing data-sharing by An Garda Síochána members seconded to the Department of Justice; …
Mairéad Farrell Written 18 Feb 2025 · to Social
500. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection if he intends reinstating the service wherein a social welfare inspector travels to the offshore islands to allow those who are in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance to sign on without having to travel to the nearest mainland Intreo office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6186/25]
Alan Kelly Written 18 Feb 2025 · to Social
505. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of WTE medical assessors within his Department in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [6291/25]