DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s governing coalition is set to lose its formal majority in parliament after one of its deputies defied it in a vote, a government lawmaker said. The government will as a result be reliant on sympathetic independent deputies to pass legislation in the coming months, the lawmaker said. A member of the centre-right Fine Gael party, Joe McHugh, on Wednesday voted against a bill to set the level of compensation for owners of homes constructed using defective blocks – legislation that impacts many in his constituency. As a result, McHugh later on Wednesday is set to resig…