Finance Bill expected to pass through Dáil on Tuesday, clearing way for general election call

Also, Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said that agreeing another government with a rotating Taoiseach at its head is not a 'red line' for Fianna Fáil

Simon Harris has also set out that his new proposed Department of Infrastructure would be set up as part of a wider reshuffle of existing government departments. Photo: Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews.ie

The Government is clearing the decks to pass the Finance Bill through the Dáil next week, as Taoiseach Simon Harris prepares to call a general election.

The key budget legislation is now due to pass through all remaining stages in the Dáil on Tuesday, according to a draft order of Oireachtas business. The Taoiseach had repeatedly said that this was the main roadblock preventing an election being called.