Jack Horgan-Jones

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481 appearances 6 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 23 Aug

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Today with David McCullagh · The coalition blame game and a vote of no confidence · 14 Apr 2026 podcast

There is no question, I think, that every independent minister will be voting in support of the government.

But we have seen all of Danny Healey-Reay, Gillian Toole and Barry Heelan vote against the government, if memory serves, on less important measures during this dull term.

Look, you know, there's no question of the government falling on this, but, you know, their support from what is nominally within their own ranks, I think will be a litmus test of the difficulty of its position and how damaged it has been by the last week or so.

So they haven't signalled their intention as of yet, you're correct to say, that they were, if my memory serves, the only opposition party to vote against the excise cuts that were announced only three weeks ago.

And the government sought to put some emphasis on that at the time, saying that Sinn Féin was calling for excise cuts, but then voted against them.

Sinn Féin countered that.

the coalition's package had not gone far enough.

And I suspect that will be their line of attack.

They will say the same again.

Look, you've gone a certain distance, but you haven't gone as far as we wanted.

They want more action on the carbon tax, even though the government has said

against expectations, gone and paused the implementation of carbon tax increases that have been due to kick in next month.

I suspect that that won't be far enough for any of the opposition and any voting against the package of measures that might take place from Sinn Féin or others.

Look, I think that's very much a kind of subordinate point, one that will be kind of battled over within the political classes as they seek to score points against each other.

But I don't think it'll be the main story.

The main story is, as we've talked about,

already today the vulnerability of the government and now it's lending its massive exchequer intervention over the weekend.

Yeah, and who knew what and when is a category of story that only comes out when governments are really pegged to the pin of their collar defending themselves.

It suggests when there's a who knew what and when story that there is blame to be assigned somewhere and that people are trying to shift or at least avoid a portion of that blame landing on their own shoulders.

And we see that playing out

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