The Government has won a Dáil motion of confidence in the Minister for Housing Darragh O'Brien.
The electronic vote was 86 in favour, 63 against, with one abstention.
Earlier, Taoiseach Micheál Martin opened the Dáil debate on the confidence motion in Mr O'Brien.
Mr Martin put forward a motion that the House had confidence in Mr O'Brien. It was prompted by the decision by People Before Profit-Solidarity last week to table a motion of no-confidence.
The Taoiseach said the minister had taken up the office at a very difficult time, and dealt with it "with great dedication and commitment".
Mr Martin said the minister's plans "are already making a difference".
"When you put aside the angry bluster and populist nonsense" you see a hard working minister, he added.
Minister O'Brien has been "directly and personally targeted" by the Opposition and "their online trolls", Mr Martin said.
It is "unfortunately a very populist moment", Mr Martin said, and there is "a clear and widening divide" between those who want to accomplish things, and those who jump on bandwagons and show "mock concern".
On housing, the Opposition "trots out its rehearsed anger most" and shows "breathtaking" cynicism while articulating "manifest nonsense", he said, as they have no desire to see more homes built, but want to attack a minister.
Mr Martin defended the Government's record on housing, and insisted it is meeting targets and making a difference.
He said objections in planning are a key factor, and accused Sinn Féin of "industrial-scale opposition" which is an "abuse" intended to allow the crisis to continue so they "can exploit it".
Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan said that rising interest rates and global inflation are adding to headwinds, but that he believes "the broad approach" taken by Minister O'Brien "has been the correct one".
He said a land-use tax is "the right republican thing to do", and that the cost-rental model "offers real hope" for young people, and that Minister O'Brien is determined to scale it up.
The Cabinet has agreed an "essential" upgrade of the planning system, he added.
'Absolute catastrophe'
People Before Profit-Solidarity's Richard Boyd Barrett said his party's no-confidence motion was not about Minister O'Brien as an individual or about cynicism.
He said it was "a desperate attempt to force the Government to acknowledge" its housing policy is "an absolute catastrophe".
He said his party now had "six-and-a-half minutes" to put its case, rather than the 40 minutes it would have had if its motion had been allowed to go ahead.
But the Government has pre-empted it, engaging in its usual tactics, he said, and leading to the "cacophony" the House has heard this evening, he said.
Party colleague Mick Barry said a generation of young people are forced to live with their parents or emigrate.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said "the people do not have confidence in the housing minister".
He has "turned to denial", and three years after the last election - when the Taoiseach "sang from the rooftops" that he would fix the crisis - things are worse.
Mr O'Brien is "out of his depth" and puts vested interests first, and is only "the latest in a long line of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael housing ministers" who believe that "the market" will fix the housing crisis, she said.
Record rents and homelessness are his legacy, as is gaslighting the Opposition, while "mindless delusional self-pitying guff" are all the Government has to offer.
"Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have had over a decade to solve housing" and they have made it worse, she said.
It is affecting education and jobs, with schools and hospitals "struggling to recruit" and many people "giving up" and emigrating.
"This contagion has happened" because successive governments have hidden behind excuses they used to "cop out", whether the financial collapse or Brexit, she said.
The problems are created by governments, all of which include either Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael, and the longer they are in power the worse the crisis gets, she said.
"An entire generation has come of age listening to your jaded excuses and your broken promises," she said.
He has been in office for two-and-a-half years and is "a housing minister for more of the same", she said.
"He has failed to get the job done", and would have been sacked in any other job, she said.
"This emergency - this catastrophe - it doesn't have to be this way," she added, and called for a general election.
Govt wants to 'turn the corner'
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said the vote would "only serve to demonstrate that the Government has a clear workable majority".
It seeks to personalise the issue, he added. He said a left-wing government in Ireland would cause misery in an "ideological experiment".
"I know the Government needs to do much more on housing in the next two years," he acknowledged.
He added that he wants to "turn the corner" on housing for everyone.
He paid tribute to Minister O'Brien who he has known since serving on Fingal County Council two decades ago.
He is "a tireless worker", "a good man, a man who cares", he said.
Labour's housing spokesperson Ged Nash said "the truth is the numbers are only going in one direction".
"Just a fraction of what is needed" is being built this year, and the "reality of life in Louth" is a 12-year wait on the housing list, he said.
"You're looking for scapegoats" such as local opposition to developments, he added, but said the "hail Mary" strategy the Government adopted meant "we all saw this coming".
"Your plan should not survive this vote," Mr Nash said.
Social Democrats TD Cian O'Callaghan said that this Government has been the worst ever on housing.
"An entire generation who feel left behind" is forced to consider migrating, he said, because the minister "is more interested in spin" than in delivering.
But Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe lauded Minister O'Brien's "incredible dedication" and "the difference he is making".
He then listed off completed developments, which he said are "not being delivered by the unbridled free market" that he said Mary Lou McDonald had referred to.
He then dismissed Sinn Féin's claims as being "hollow".
Speaking on RTÉ’s Drivetime programme, Sinn Féin's Eoin Ó Broin said that despite the Government’s numerous interventions, all the indicators on housing are going in the wrong direction.
"The difficulty is for people in acute housing need, almost everything is going in the wrong direction.
"Rising rents, rising house prices and dramatically increased levels of homelessness," Mr Ó Broin said.
"But we’re also seeing a fall in planning applications, a fall in commencements. We’re seeing social and affordable housing targets, which were never high enough, not being met," he added.
Minister for Public Expenditure Michael McGrath said Minister O'Brien "absolutely cares about" those who are caught in the housing crisis.
He said the no-confidence motion was "about politics and competition" and will not deliver a single house, as the Opposition "do not believe in home-ownership".
