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How much the 34th Dáil recorded each month, and what it talked about. These are counts for the whole chamber, never rankings of individuals. Hover any bar for its month's value. To follow a single term over time, use the term explorer.

The sitting calendar

One square per day, shaded by how much the record holds for that day. Blank stretches are recesses. The darkest squares are the busiest sitting days.

The monthly tables below are this chart's text equivalent.

Recorded activity per month

Counts from the official record. Low months are usually recesses, not missing data. Questions run from 22 January 2025, the earliest in the record for this Dáil. Hover a bar for the exact count.

Divisions (votes)

Debate contributions

Parliamentary questions

Recorded activity by party

Monthly counts of recorded items by TDs of each party, using the party each TD held on the item's own date. Panels are alphabetical and share one scale per metric, so a smaller party's panel is simply smaller. Parties have very different numbers of TDs, so these counts are not a measure of effort; each panel states the party's serving TDs today as a separate fact. Items the record does not attribute to a TD are left out.

Parliamentary questions asked

All panels scaled to the busiest party-month: 2,830.

Debate contributions spoken

All panels scaled to the busiest party-month: 1,438.

Division votes recorded

All panels scaled to the busiest party-month: 1,631.

Irish in the chamber

Debate contributions per month whose detected language is Irish. The record does not mark language, so the tag is derived and shown only as a whole-chamber aggregate. You can search Irish-language contributions directly.

Distinctive terms

Words and phrases the Dáil used far more in each period than in the months before it, so what surged rather than what is always said. A term has to be used at least 1.5 times its earlier rate to appear, and the ones that qualify are listed by how often they came up. Hover a bar for the before and after counts. This is a whole-chamber aggregate and is never computed per TD. Recomputed daily.