# parliamentary-question - Thursday 31 December, 2020
# Road Safety
# Road Safety
The figure was revealed in response to a Parliamentary Question last month.
# parliamentary-question - Friday 21 August, 2020
# Prisoners
# Prisoners
The total figure is a decrease from 465 people in January 2014.
# parliamentary-question - Saturday 9 May, 2020
# Air Corps
# Air Corps
The aircraft completed its first mission last weekend, when it delivered a number of Irish tests to a laboratory in Germany.
# parliamentary-question - Wednesday 6 May, 2020
# The Other Crisis
# The Other Crisis
There has been a 15% increase in the number of people receiving Rent Supplement since Covid-19 restrictions began.
# parliamentary-question - Sunday 24 November, 2019
# Road Safety
# Road Safety
The figure is the lowest rate in the past five years.
# parliamentary-question - Wednesday 24 July, 2019
# Penalty Rates
# Penalty Rates
5,821 people were subject to ‘penalty rates’ during the first half of the year.
# parliamentary-question - Friday 22 December, 2017
# Gender Breakdown
# Gender Breakdown
It has run a number of female-focused recruitment campaigns and says that gender diversity is an operational imperative.
# parliamentary-question - Thursday 14 December, 2017
# Mccabe Scandal
# Mccabe Scandal
His concerns come after his parliamentary questions which unravelled Fitzgerald’s email scandal.
# parliamentary-question - Saturday 30 September, 2017
# Assessment
# Assessment
Some €70 million in funding was announced over 2015-2016.
# parliamentary-question - Thursday 24 August, 2017
# Parliamentary Question
# Parliamentary Question
Since 2010, 892 incidents have happened on Irish roads involving National Ambulance Service vehicles.
# parliamentary-question - Thursday 10 August, 2017
# Waiting
# Waiting
Hospitals in Limerick, Dublin and Galway had the highest number of people aged 75 and over waiting more than a day.
# parliamentary-question - Wednesday 2 August, 2017
# For Hire
# For Hire
The Department of An Taoiseach has spent €75,000 on taxis since 2015.
# parliamentary-question - Thursday 16 February, 2017
# Apply Within
# Apply Within
There has been a 25% reduction in the number of staff at the ODCE in the past six years.
# parliamentary-question - Monday 2 January, 2017
# Voting Costs
# Voting Costs
15 separate referendums have been held in Ireland since 2001.
# parliamentary-question - Monday 28 November, 2016
# IOU
# IOU
6,616 people have been committed to prison thus far in 2016 for non-payment of fines.
# parliamentary-question - Saturday 5 November, 2016
# PQ
# PQ
New figures show the number of female gardaí is at 3,370.
# parliamentary-question - Monday 7 December, 2015
# Sex Offenders
# Sex Offenders
The figures were revealed via a parliamentary question by independent TD Denis Naughten.
# parliamentary-question - Sunday 21 June, 2015
# No Woman No Cry
# No Woman No Cry
And none at all with rank more senior than lieutenant colonel.
# parliamentary-question - Sunday 7 June, 2015
# Road Deaths
# Road Deaths
The majority of drivers received fatal injuries at the scene.
# parliamentary-question - Thursday 9 October, 2014
# Budget
# Budget
Michael McCarthy has accused Adams of backtracking on the issue. Sinn Féin’s response? He’s “clutching at straws”.
# parliamentary-question - Wednesday 25 June, 2014
# Pay
# Pay
The charge was brought in to discourage ‘inappropriate’ bonus payments being made to staff in bailed out banks.
# parliamentary-question - Monday 3 March, 2014
# Who Are You
# Who Are You
Almost 239,000 of these cards have been issued in Dublin.
# parliamentary-question - Sunday 9 February, 2014
# Banking
# Banking
The news broke last year that senior executives were being asked to take voluntary pension cuts.
# parliamentary-question - Wednesday 5 February, 2014
# Panti Bliss
# Panti Bliss
TDs and Senators are trying to raise the Panti Bliss controversy in the Dáil and Seanad.
# parliamentary-question - Thursday 31 October, 2013
# Spying
# Spying
The Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said he expressed the government’s concerns to the US Embassy in Dublin at a senior official level.
# parliamentary-question - Saturday 31 August, 2013
# Asylum Seekers
# Asylum Seekers
Nigerians make up the highest number of refugees in Ireland at 63, while Pakistani refugees are second at 58.
# parliamentary-question - Saturday 17 August, 2013
# Death In Ireland
# Death In Ireland
The Department of Social Protection is paying out more than €5 million every year to help people cover funeral and burial expenses for their loved ones.
# parliamentary-question - Saturday 20 July, 2013
# Expertise
# Expertise
The report by the PA Consulting Group cost a total of €144,988.96 with the other half the cost shared with the UK government.
# parliamentary-question - Friday 10 May, 2013
# Emergency
# Emergency
Defence Minister Alan Shatter is satisfied the Defence Forces is equipped to handle any emergency situations.
# parliamentary-question - Friday 9 March, 2012
# Angela Kerins
# Angela Kerins
Angela Kerins says that €23,262 she receives for these roles are donated to charity. It was disclosed this week that Kerins earns €234,000 from the Rehab Group which has just announced 18 redundancies.
# parliamentary-question - Saturday 28 January, 2012
# Weapons
# Weapons
In the past two years, almost 3,000 weapons have been confiscated from prisoners, including homemade items such as sharpened toothbrushes and pool balls in socks.
# parliamentary-question - Thursday 24 November, 2011
# To The Cleaners
# To The Cleaners
Michael Noonan reveals that ministers can take €3,500 off their tax expenses if they need to stay in hotels while in Dublin.
# parliamentary-question - Thursday 9 June, 2011
# BaNAMA Republic
# BaNAMA Republic
Finance minister Michael Noonan says the NAMA website will list the properties under the control of debtors’ receivers.
# parliamentary-question - Friday 8 April, 2011
# Medical Cards
# Medical Cards
Health minister James Reilly will promise to investigate any claims that GPs are charging for treatment like blood tests.
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