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A Dublin Bay South by-election will take place this year after Eoghan Murphy stepped down as a TD.
The Taoiseach made the remarks at a Fianna Fáil parliamentary party meeting.
Leo Varadkar also spoke with Prime Minister Boris Johnson this evening.
Now that the parameters for the Brexit negotiations have been agreed, the spotlight is expected to fall upon Enda Kenny’s leadership once more.
Meanwhile, Simon Coveney apologised to his Fine Gael colleagues at Leinster House today.
The party held a four-hour meeting in Dublin yesterday where there was apparently no dissent among members.
Brian Walsh lost the party whip after he voted against the party on the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill – but now he’s back in the party.
Fine Gael dissident Brian Walsh said he has met with Enda Kenny since his expulsion and that he has a good working relationship with the Taoiseach.
The Labour Party leader welcomed the news that Willie Penrose is to rejoin the Labour Parliamentary Party.
Edie Wynne said references she made in her quarterly newsletter to the former Minister of State were removed by party headquarters.
The Fine Gael ‘rebels’ who were expelled from the parliamentary party are in talks about getting speaking rights – but will they form a new party?
The four members of Fine Gael who voted against the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 last night will be expelled from the parliamentary party.
Meanwhile, Sinn Féin has said that Peadar Tóibín’s decision to vote against the party on the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill is a “serious breach of party rules”.
Brian Walsh is now the third member of the Fine Gael parliamentary party who has decided to vote against the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill.
The minister says, however, that the alternative is that the baby’s mother could die – ending both of their lives.
The pro-life TD put forward motions for the proposed legislation to be scrapped, the suicide clause removed and for members to have a free vote at a parliamentary party meeting last night.
With a free vote, at least a dozen TDs and senators from the main opposition party are likely to oppose the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill, according to a survey carried out by TheJournal.ie.
A suggestion that the Tánaiste has been seeking support for his leadership from the parliamentary party has been denied by Labour and a number of its TDs though many did not return calls today.
“I entered politics to help people, and am now resigning from the parliamentary party because I no longer want to support a government that is actually hurting people.”
The former minister said to continue in his role as deputy leader and communications spokesperson while he did not support the fiscal compact treaty ratification “would be incompatible for me.”
The former athlete was appointed to the Seanad as an independent by the Taoiseach last May.
FF’s Deputy Leader says discussion of a potential breakaway party, based on comments given to TV3, is mere “spin”.