Can a government continue in office if it loses a motion of confidence in a minister?
Last night’s motion of confidence in the minister for housing, Eoghan Murphy, failed to pass; the vote was 53 for, 56 against, and 35 recorded abstentions. One of the reasons that it might have failed is because the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that a defeat for the government on this would cause a pre-Christmas election.…