Government suffers first defeat in Dáil vote

The minority Government suffered its first defeat in the Dáil last night after the Labour Party succeeded in passing a bill to protect workers’ rights.

Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and AAA-PBP were among those who voted with Labour to give Fine Gael the embarrassing defeat.

An earlier amendment by the Government to the Labour motion was lost and the formal motion was thus later passed.