Government to consider filling Healy-Rae role in coming days, says Norma Foley

 Norma Foley said the Government would consider what to do with the vacant post 

The resignation raises questions about whether the position would go to a different independent TD who supported the coalition with Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, or go to a member of those parties. Picture: Don MacMonagle

Children's minister Norma Foley has said she imagines the minister of state role vacated by Michael Healy-Rae will be filled.

Mr Healy-Rae announced his resignation during a confidence motion over the fuel crisis on Tuesday, stepping down as a junior minister at the Department of Agriculture.