The Government has won the vote on the Mahon Tribunal in the Dáil with its majority, 76 to 67.
The vote was comfortably won after Fianna Fáil, the Greens and the Progressive Democrats agreed to express support for the tribunal.
However during this morning's conclusion of the debate there were heated exchanges between Fine Gael and the Green Party.
The atmosphere between the Government and Opposition benches got more heated during the continuation of last night's private members debate on the Mahon Tribunal, when one member of the Green Party accused Fine Gael of taking bribes from developers.
Fine Gael then called on the deputy to produce evidence of his claim.
Fine Gael also highlighted the fact that the Progressive Democrats had remained silent during the debate.
Minister Tony Killeen accused the opposition party of further confusing the issue by shifting the focus.
Dunlop says Cllr 'riding two horses'
Former lobbyist Frank Dunlop has told the Mahon Tribunal that Fianna Fáil councillor Marian McGennis was 'riding two horses' by supporting rival shopping centre developments in west Dublin.
Mr Dunlop said he paid for bus shelter advertising and 25,000 leaflets for Ms McGennis in the 1992 election at the request of the late Liam Lawlor.
He did this even though Ms McGennis publicly supported Green Property's development in Blanchardstown over his client Owen O'Callaghan's development in Quarryvale.
But Mr Dunlop said Ms McGennis was part of a strategy group working for Quarryvale, which was not publicly known at the time.
The tribunal also heard that Mr O'Callaghan flew a Dublin councillor to Cork to help in her Seanad election campaign.
Mr Dunlop said Mr O'Callaghan introduced Fine Gael candidate Therese Ridge to a selected number of Cork councillors in January 1993 who were part of the voting panel.
Mr Dunlop has already told the tribunal that Ms Ridge received a corrupt cash payment of £1,000 during the 1992 General Election campaign in recognition of her support for Mr O'Callaghan's Quarryvale development.
He said he also paid her £500 cash for the Seanad election and paid £4,000 towards Mr Ridge's printing costs in both the general and Seanad election.
Ms Ridge, who was unsuccessful in both elections, has admitted getting £500 towards the Seanad election but has disputed the amount in printing costs and denied any corrupt payment.
She has told the tribunal she was an ardent supporter of Quarryvale and would have supported it no matter what.
