Sinn Féin has said a motion to see if people have confidence in the government is needed.
With the vote due in the Dáil Tuesday afternoon, Lunchtime Live asks: do you have confidence in the government?
Sunday, the Government announced a €505 million package of measures to cut the cost of living.
Sinn Féin has said its no confidence motion in the Government is needed after the Government ‘poured fuel on the fire’ of the fuel protest last week.
Newstalk Political Correspondent Sean Defoe told Lunchtime Live host Andrea Gilligan that the government would survive the vote of confidence with great ease.
“There’s no threat to them at all. There won't be a fall of the government today” he said on Tuesday.
“The big question is over Danny Healy Ray.
“There's been quite a few people in the government calling him this morning to try and shore him up after he was very critical of the package yesterday.”
He said it was unlikely Danny Healy-Rae and his brother junior minister Michael Healy-Rae would see eye to eye on today’s vote.
He explained that even if they decided to be a united front and not vote for the Government it would only measure up to a majority of 5 people, in no way endangering the Government.
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Lunchtime Live asks: Do you have confidence in the government?
Lunchtime Live also asked listeners on Tuesday how they felt in the house leading up to the vote of no confidence held in the Dàil.
Host Andrea Gilligan first heard from Jason Cullen who said he didn’t think a vote of no confidence would make a difference
“I don’t think the current government is doing a good job and I don’t think a new government would improve on much.
“I don’t think other parties will get enough votes to go into power and if they do, I don't think there's enough political change in the air to return a different government or significantly different government than what we have at the moment.
“I'd rather have seen measures in terms of reducing demand for fossil fuels, but if the government was to fall today, what we would see is probably an increase in more right wing votes and TDs being returned.”
Ben, based in Tipperary said it was positive to see cohesion and coalition between left-wing opposition to government parties.
Leinster House in Dublin. Picture by: Alamy.He added that while he understood the protests, he hated to see them “commandeered by far-right actors”.
Donegal-based listener Christy told Andrea Gilligan the government had been too slow to react to the protests but that some things “were outside of Irish control”.
She stressed the importance of catering to the urgent needs of those struggling in Ireland due to the fuel crisis.
A listener named Kevin expressed that the vote of no confidence was unlikely to change the political landscape.
“Over the past 100 years, there's only been two parties involved in government in this country. I think it's time we had somebody else in”, he said.
“The whole thing has been a big mess. The government messed up. The protesters went a bit over the top”, another listener said.
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