Sinn Féin will continue to press the Government to increase funding in next month's Budget for the provision of social housing.
That's according to Mayo-based Senator Rose Conway-Walsh who was speaking after the Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy comfortably survived a Sinn Fein motion of no confidence in him last night by 59 votes to 49, with Fianna Fail abstaining.
Minister Murphy told the Dáil he would not be "hounded out of office" by personalised slurs against him.
He said the housing crisis was a decade in the making, and he only came into office 16 months ago.
Senator Rose Conway-Walsh says her party had no choice but to put this motion forward, as the housing crisis is now a national issue. and she claims the Government is failing to deal with it.
