Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 June 2026
354. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has an any way to identify which Parliamentary Questions are AI generated; and the amount it costs, on average, to answer a Parliamentary Question. [45370/26]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe Department of Finance is committed to being transparent and helpful to all members of the Oireachtas. My Department does not have any way of identifying if a Parliamentary Question is AI generated.
My Department responded to 2,926 PQs in 2025 – 2,396 written and 530 oral. Staff members at all grades may be involved at some level in distributing, answering and submitting PQs for approval across the Department. The length of time spent on dealing with PQs can vary from a few minutes to a number of hours per week. As the processing and answering PQs is undertaken as part of the normal day to day work of the individual sections within the Department it is not possible to accurately extract the costs of processing PQs from the overall administrative costs of the Department.
