Leader Mary Lou McDonald said the party would table the motion on the day next week as the government has “now lost its parliamentary majority and is failing to tackle the cost of living and housing crises”. Former Education Minister Joe McHugh has voted against the government’s mica restoration program bill, which aims to compensate homeowners in four counties affected by faulty structural components. The government said it was confident it would win the vote. It comes after a member of centre-right Fine Gael quit the party on Wednesday after voting against a bill introduced by the government, which also includes Prime Minister Micheal Martin’s centre-right Fianna Fail and the Green Party. Former Education Minister Joe McHugh voted against the Government’s Mica Restoration Scheme Bill, which aims to compensate homeowners in four counties affected by faulty building components. It leaves the coalition with 79 seats in the 160-seat Lower House. However, some of the other lawmakers who left the government in the past two years continue to support it in major votes. “Certainly it can muster majorities for votes on one basis, but two years on we think this government is now run out,” Ms McDonald told RTE Morning Ireland. “It’s out of time. They have no ideas.” With Sinn Fein, Ireland’s main opposition party, also well ahead of any other party in the polls, those aligned with the government are unlikely to vote to topple it and bring forward an election scheduled for 2025. Ireland’s Secretary of State, Simon Coveney (PA Wire) Foreign Secretary Simon Coveney said he was very confident the government would win the vote, pointing out that he passed the contentious bill his colleague resigned this week by four votes. “I think we will have a strong Labor majority and that will be clear this week,” Mr Coveney told RTE. Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe accused Sinn Fein of being interested in “building a culture of instability”. “Over the last two years, this is a country that has faced an extraordinary test in a pandemic and during that time we had to take extraordinary measures which included closing the manufacturing sector for a period of time,” Mr Donohoe said. “This administration has put in place measures that have helped our country recover from a pandemic, helped our economy recover from a pandemic, helped society deal with a threat we’ve never faced. Additional reports from agencies