Green Party's O'Brien unlikely to be sacked after abstaining on bill vote

Green Party junior minister Joe O'Brien abstained from the vote because he 'wasn’t convinced that this piece of legislation was the best we could have done'. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Green Party junior minister Joe O’Brien looks set to escape being sacked after he abstained on the final vote of the Residential Tenancies Bill.

His party colleague, Neasa Hourigan, voted against the bill, having resigned her position as party chief whip.