This followed the 2020 general election to Dáil Éireann held on 8 February, and negotiations on a programme for government that lasted till June.

[3] It was the first time that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have participated in the same government, which Leo Varadkar described as the end of what has often been referred to as Civil War politics.

Varadkar announced that he would resign as Taoiseach but that under the provisions of Article 28.11 of the Constitution, the members of the government would continue to carry out their duties until their successors were appointed.

[71][72][73] Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Barry Cowen was sacked on 14 July 2020 because of driving offences which he had committed but not disclosed to Micheál Martin prior to his appointment to cabinet.

[75] After public dissatisfaction with the proposal, the three ministers of state agreed on 28 July 2020 to share the existing allowance between them, rather than accept the increase.

[76] Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Dara Calleary resigned on 21 August 2020 after the fallout from the Oireachtas Golf Society scandal.

[77] In October 2020, Village magazine published a claim that Leo Varadkar had provided a copy of a confidential document to the head of the National Association of General Practitioners that had been part of negotiations with the Irish Medical Organisation in April 2019 while Taoiseach.

[78] Fine Gael issued a statement which described the article as "both inaccurate and grossly defamatory", and while accepting that the provision of the agreement by private channels was "not best practice", said there was nothing unlawful about what had occurred.

[80] Zappone declined the appointment after the Merrion Hotel controversy arose, in which the Irish Independent reported that six days prior to the announcement of her appointment, Zappone had hosted a gathering for 50 guests, including Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, at the Merrion Hotel while the COVID-19 pandemic was ongoing.

[81] Sinn Féin tabled a motion of no confidence in Coveney, to be debated on 15 September on the return of the Dáil from the summer recess.

[85] On 24 August 2022, Robert Troy resigned as Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment after his failure to declare property interest was revealed by The Ditch.

The group claimed the worsening housing and homelessness crisis under O'Brien was "tearing apart the social fabric of Irish society and leading to the scapegoating of refugees".

[90] On 15 September 2021, a motion of confidence in the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence, Simon Coveney, proposed by Taoiseach Micheál Martin, was approved with 92 votes in favour to 59 against.

[91] On 12 July 2022, a motion of confidence in the government, proposed by Taoiseach Micheál Martin, was approved with 85 votes in favour to 66 against, with one abstention.

[92] On 13 December 2022, a motion of confidence in the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O'Brien, proposed by Taoiseach Micheál Martin, was approved with 86 votes in favour to 63 against, with one abstention.

[102] Return of Helen McEntee from maternity leave Rossa Fanning SC was appointed by the president as Attorney General on the nomination of the Taoiseach.

[130][131] A month after the government was formed, in January 2023, news website The Ditch published a story claiming Minister of State for Employment Affairs and Retail Business Damien English failed to declare ownership of an existing home in his planning application for a new property in 2008.

[128] Also in January, the Sunday Independent revealed that Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform Paschal Donohoe failed to properly declare a donation from a company in 2016.

[136] On 14 January, Donohoe began conducting a review of his election expenses statements amid the allegations which he had denied.

[143][144] On 23 November 2023, a riot broke out in Dublin following an attack on three children and a care assistant by a male immigrant of Algerian origin.

Following the riot, opposition politicians called for the resignations of the Minister for Justice Helen McEntee and the Garda Commissioner Drew Harris.

The Thirty-ninth Amendment proposed to expand the constitutional definition of family to include durable relationships outside marriage.

[148] On 5 December 2023, a motion of confidence in the Minister for Justice Helen McEntee proposed by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was approved with 83 votes in favour to 63 against, with one abstention.

[171][172] The Minister for Finance, Jack Chambers, and Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, Paschal Donohoe, delivered the following budgets: On 8 November 2024, Taoiseach Simon Harris sought a dissolution of the Dáil which was granted by the president, with the new Dáil to convene on 18 December.