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# Parliamentary Question

Last year
2023
Some Irish prisoners facing waits of over two years to access mental health treatments
7 Jun 2023
8.1k
15
Short-term letting rules were 'destined to fail' after only 50 planning permissions granted
2 Jan 2023
21.7k
13
All time
90% of Irish motorists disqualified by a court in 2020 have not surrendered their licences
31 Dec 2020
31.7k
37
51 inmates in Irish prisons still 'slopping out' despite government pledge to end practice by this year
21 Aug 2020
27.3k
36
Government spends €5.2m on new aircraft to help Covid-19 response
9 May 2020
68.2k
139
'It's a perfect storm': Sharp rise in Rent Supplement payments raises concerns over post-Covid crisis
6 May 2020
30.7k
77
Almost 90% of motorists disqualified this year have not surrendered their licences
24 Nov 2019
22.2k
30
Thousands of social welfare recipients penalised over inadequate attempts to find employment
24 Jul 2019
70.4k
130
Defence Forces 'facing challenges' in fulfilling its gender targets
22 Dec 2017
9.7k
46
Labour's Alan Kelly has asked the Justice Minister if his phone is being tapped
14 Dec 2017
28.0k
70
Just 230 out of 750 mental health posts approved since 2015 have been filled
30 Sep 2017
7.1k
19
92 on-duty ambulances involved in road 'incidents' so far this year
24 Aug 2017
8.5k
18
Elderly people forced to wait over 24 hours in emergency departments of these 25 hospitals
10 Aug 2017
9.7k
24
Taxi! Ministers spent over €1.7m on taxis, car hire and limos in the last two years
2 Aug 2017
10.1k
70
Ireland's corporate watchdog is suffering from a chronic staff shortage
16 Feb 2017
9.3k
Ireland has spent over €133 million on referendums since the start of the century
2 Jan 2017
7.9k
22
Nearly €36 million in court fines unpaid in last four years
28 Nov 2016
6.5k
12
Female garda numbers have gone way up in the past decade
5 Nov 2016
10.2k
5
Half of sex offenders to be released this year have undergone no treatment
7 Dec 2015
6.3k
21
There are very, very few women in the Irish Army...
21 Jun 2015
28.0k
86
133 drivers in fatal crashes were not breathalysed last year
7 Jun 2015
9.9k
24
Did Gerry Adams want JobBridge expanded, not scrapped, just a few months ago?
9 Oct 2014
8.3k
33
No bank staff hit with higher USC charge on bonuses since 2011
25 Jun 2014
11.8k
13
Most of 500,000 identity cards in Ireland issued to social welfare claimants
3 Mar 2014
38.7k
120
30 former AIB senior execs asked to take pension reduction
9 Feb 2014
11.4k
42
Dáil won't allow Rabbitte to disclose breakdown of RTÉ payout over homophobia controversy
5 Feb 2014
8.0k
Gilmore raised concerns over US spying with embassy in Dublin this summer
31 Oct 2013
6.2k
36
26 Syrian refugees seek asylum in Ireland as violence escalates
31 Aug 2013
9.0k
180
Hundreds of families applying for grants to help cover high funeral costs
17 Aug 2013
16.4k
50
Over €72k spent on report evaluating Ireland's economic relationship with UK
20 Jul 2013
3.8k
34
Ireland ready for natural disaster despite 'budgetary situation'
10 May 2013
10.3k
68
Rehab CEO 'donates fees for State boards work to charity'
9 Mar 2012
5.7k
42
More than 15,000 contraband items seized in Irish prisons
28 Jan 2012
2.6k
15
Ministers can claim €3,500 tax refund for laundry expenses
24 Nov 2011
3.6k
35
We'll find out ‘within weeks’ exactly what property NAMA controls
9 Jun 2011
986
2
Minister to investigate GPs who charge medical hard holders
8 Apr 2011
1.5k