Seventeen deputies put questions to ministers in Dáil Éireann on Thursday, 24 September 2026 in a sitting devoted to Budget 2027. The official Oireachtas record of the day includes parliamentary questions and written questions across several sections of the debate record, published by the Houses of the Oireachtas.

Among the recorded questions, Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Social Protection to review the carer's allowance and carer's benefit with a view to the abolition of the means test in budget 2027, according to the Oireachtas parliamentary questions page for question 9.

The Minister for Social Protection's response, as recorded on the Oireachtas pages, described the Carer's Allowance as the main scheme by which the Department provides income support to carers, with 111,000 carers receiving the payment at the end of August and a provision of €1.4 billion for 2026.

Other deputies who asked questions on the day, according to the official evidence, were Albert Dolan, Barry Heneghan, Barry Ward, Brendan Smith, Cathal Crowe, Darren O'Rourke, Joe Neville, John Paul O'Shea, Ken O'Flynn, Michael Cahill, Michael Murphy, Peter 'Chap' Cleere, Peter Roche, Ryan O'Meara, Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh and Thomas Gould.

Ahead of the questions, Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris told the Budgetary Oversight Committee on 23 September 2026 that Budget 2027 would provide an overall budgetary package of €8.5 billion, consisting of €1.5 billion in new permanent tax measures and €7 billion in additional public spending, according to a Department of Finance press release. Harris said the Government would support retired and older people, carers and people with disabilities.