The government's been handed its first defeat of the new Dáil term.
It was heavily defeated by 58 votes to 78, in a countermotion during a debate on workers' rights.
TDs instead passed a Labour motion calling for the minimum wage to be increased, and an end to so-called 'if and when' contracts.
Labour's Joan Burton said a clear statement on workers rights would be a sign of 'new politics':
