Aoife Moore: No-confidence motion not designed to remove Varadkar but to damage those around him

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, who is subject of a motion of no confidence next week. File picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Sinn Féin has previous when it comes to lodging motions of no confidence against government ministers.

In the last Fine Gael government, Eoghan Murphy and Simon Harris both escaped from theirs unscathed, for the most part, saved by Fianna Fáil's confidence and supply deal.