{"id":399117,"date":"2026-04-15T04:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399117\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T04:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:26:19","slug":"what-was-said-in-the-dail-as-government-survives-no-confidence-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399117\/","title":{"rendered":"What was said in the D\u00e1il as Government survives no confidence motion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sinn F\u00e9in tabled a no confidence motion in the Government following fuel protests that brought Irish roads to a standstill.<\/p>\n

The D\u00e1il debated the motion and discussed the protests on Tuesday. The Government won the D\u00e1il confidence vote by 92 votes to 78.<\/p>\n

The Government was accused of \u201carrogance<\/a>\u201d over the way it handled fuel protests, with Sinn F\u00e9in leader Mary Lou McDonald calling the Government \u201cbrazen\u201d and said it was \u201ctime for an election\u201d.<\/p>\n

Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin said it was \u201cmanifestly untrue\u201d to suggest the Government has done nothing to help people amid rising fuel prices, and said it was \u201cdishonest\u201d for the opposition to suggest \u201cthere are no hard choices\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Government announced a \u20ac505 million package<\/a> of support on Sunday to respond to rising fuel prices caused by the war in Iran, but the political fallout from the protests continues as the D\u00e1il returned from the Easter break on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Michael Helay-Rae<\/a>, a junior minister, resigned over the Government’s handling of the fuel protests.<\/p>\n

Healy-Rae was among several independent TDs who supported the formation of a coalition with Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael.<\/p>\n

He told the D\u00e1il on Tuesday that he would be voting against the Government in a confidence motion relating to the fuel crisis on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

He also announced his resignation as Minister of State with responsibility for forestry, farm safety and horticulture within the Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n

Opposition TDs labelled the Justice Minister \u201cRambo<\/a>\u201d for his statements during fuel protests last week.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Jim O\u2019Callaghan said the Defence Forces would assist An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na in removing vehicles from the blockade.<\/p>\n

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Opposition TDs label Jim O\u2019Callaghan \u2018Rambo\u2019 after Defence Forces statement<\/p>\n

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In a statement, he said: \u201cThe blocking of critical national infrastructure will not be permitted to continue, and the assistance of the Defence Forces has been requested.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking during a confidence motion in the D\u00e1il, Social Democrat TD Cian O\u2019Callaghan said: \u201cWhen calm leadership was required, we got chaos.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of pursuing a strategy of de-escalation, ministers decided to fan the flames. GI Jim O\u2019Callaghan arrived on the scene thinking that he was Rambo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking in Irish, he asked: \u201cWhere is he now?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in tabled a no confidence motion in the Government following fuel protests that brought Irish roads to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-399117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}