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Wednesday 21 October 2020
Last night, Eoghan Murphy narrowly survived a confidence motion in the Dáil.
The motion was defeated by three votes.
The claim has been made since the motion was tabled by the Social Democrats last week.
Two will vote no confidence in the minister while the two new Fianna Fáil TDs will abstain.
The government numbers are tight ahead of tonight’s motion of no confidence in the housing minister.
A motion of confidence in Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy is being heard in the Dáil tomorrow night.
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Murphy has come under pressure for a number of issues, most notably the significant number of homeless people in Ireland.
A large number of the party’s members took the secret ballot in a Dun Laoghaire hotel this evening.
Giuseppe Conte’s resignation came under pressure from Matteo Salvini’s anti-immigrant League party, which has been soaring in opinion polls.
“He’s given impression that this is a priority for him,” the Independent Clare TD said.
Harris is facing a motion of no confidence from Sinn Féin next week.
Harris will apologise for misleading the Dáil this week.
The Conservative Party and the DUP will back her, but Europe has warned “time is almost up”.
The move comes after the British Prime Minister told MPs they will only get a delayed vote on her Brexit deal in the new year.
Forty-eight Conservative MPs need to back the motion in order for a vote to take place.
A total of 204 of 349 members of parliament voted against Lofven, while 142 voted in favour of him.
Sinn Féin has submitted motion of no confidence in Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy, but it won’t have Fianna Fáil backing.
Earlier this week, Sinn Féin said it will move to have Murphy removed from office when the Dáil resumes this month.
At the party think-in in Cavan, the Sinn Fein leader said the party will put down a motion of no confidence in the coming weeks.
Rajoy got up and shook hands with Sanchez before leaving the lower house without a word.
Members backed a motion of no confidence by 867 votes (63%) to 500 (37%).
“We need to make it clear to Mr Bolton that his time is up.”
Henry Bolton’s former partner allegedly made racist remarks about Prince Harry’s fiancée Meghan Markle.
Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil are both tabling motions of no confidence against Frances Fitzgerald.
‘This is an attempt at a political intervention.’
Jim O’Callaghan has said he is also losing confidence in the Justice Minister.
After a lengthy, and occasionally feisty, Dáil debate, the government won the motion.
Independent TD John Halligan was first up this evening in the debate on the Tánaiste’s no confidence motion.
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Motions of no confidence in the leadership of Fine Gael’s youth wing have been ruled invalid on technicalities, sources say.
A majority of the players have also said they won’t play next season if he is retained.
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The victory was a shock to everyone, including the player herself.
The controversial PM has been fighting for his job.
He said he made remarks last Friday in the “heat of the moment” during an RTÉ interview.
Ceann Comhairle Seán Barrett is increasingly unpopular amongst opposition TDs.
A confidence motion will be debated in the Dáil later today.
The vote will coincide with an anti-water charges protest planned for next week.
Councillors voted no confidence in Irish Water.
Nine psychiatrists have withdrawn confidence in the clinical management of the mental health service in the Carlow-Kilkenny-South Tipperary.
THE IRISH FARMERS Association has urged Irish MEPs to vote to ban words traditionally linked to meat products from being used on vegetarian alternatives.
The European Parliament is to vote this week on the terminology used for plant-based meat and dairy substitutes.
Amendments put forward would restrict the naming of such products so that they could not use terms normally associated with meat products.
One amendment would curtail the use of terms such as ‘steak’, ‘sausage’, ‘escalope’, ‘burger’ or ‘hamburger’ on products that do not exclusively contain meat.
The IFA has written to MEPs urging them to accept both amendments to protect Irish consumers and the agricultural industry here.
IFA President Tim Cullinan said yesterday that dairy products or plant-based meat branded with ‘real’ meat descriptions is “deliberately misleading to our consumers and undermines our industry.”
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