Fianna Fáil have criticised the planned motion of no confidence in Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy, which is due to be debated in the Dáil on Tuesday.
Fianna Fáil's spokesperson on jobs, enterprise and innovation, Billy Kelleher questioned how the removal of Minister Murphy from office could help solve the housing crisis.
"If motions built houses, if motions addressed waiting lists, we wouldn't have those problems because we've had endless motions over many years on these issues," he said.
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However, Sinn Féin's housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin renewed his calls for the Housing Minister to go: "Homelessness is up, social housing delivery is glacial, not a single affordable home delivered by Government in three years, so he needs to go and the policy needs to go."
The motion of no confidence, which has been tabled by Sinn Féin, will not be supported by Fianna Fáil. Instead the party says it intends on honouring the confidence and supply agreement.
Mr Kelleher added that negotiations for a third budget would depend on the Government's delivery on the issues of housing and health.
He described Tuesday's motion of no confidence as a "superficial debate".
