Labour Chairman and TD Colm Keaveney has voted against the section five of the Social Welfare Bill.
In a tweet just before the walk-through vote he tweeted 'Acta non verba', Latin for 'deeds not words'.
Speaking on Newstalk, the Galway East TD said his decision was not about personalities but about policy, and he accepted there would now be repercussions for him.
Protesters gathered outside Leinster House as the final votes take place on measures in the bill.
In a statement, he said: "Since the first leaks emerged on Budget 2013 I have had deep misgivings on aspects of the Budget in relation to the changes to PRSI, to child benefit, to respite grants and to the overall regressive nature of the budget in terms of income.
"Since Monday of last week I have been working to overturn the more odious aspects of this budget.
"I voted for the measures on the night of the Budget in order to allow time myself and other deputies to campaign for the reversal or amelioration of these measures.
"Even last night I voted for the Second Stage of the Social Welfare Bill in order to allow for an opportunity for an eleventh hour change to be made. I and the other deputies have been unsuccessful in that regard.
"Therefore, I have this afternoon voted against the Bill. I could not for reasons of conscience, or on the basis of the mandate that I received from my constituents in Galway East, vote for the measures in this Bill.
"I simply cannot vote in favour of measures that will have such a negative effect on working families, particularly given the regressive nature of the hits proposed."
The Social Welfare Bill has now gone to the Seanad. It passed all stages in the Dail with a final walk through vote of 93 votes to 53 votes.
Earlier, there were robust exchanges in the Dáil earlier when Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald withdrew an accusation she had made that Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore had lied about social welfare cuts.
The Dáil was debating the proposal to cut the Respite Care Grant.
Sinn Féin's Aengus Ó Snodaigh described the reduction from €1,700 to €1375 annually as an odious measure with far reaching consequences.
United Left Alliance TD Joan Collins said the proposal would see carers leaving their loved ones into accident and emergency departments because they would no longer be able to look after them.
Fianna Fáil's Willie O'Dea told Social Protection Minister Joan Burton that the best thing to do when one had made a mistake is to admit it and move on.
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin accused the Labour Party of deceiving the people of the country in promising to protect Child Benefit before the general election.
He asked why protecting tax rates for those on an income of over €100,000 was more important than the Labour pledge to protect Child Benefit.
Mr Gilmore accused Fianna Fáil of having a hard neck. He told Mr Martin that Fianna Fáil's legacy to this country was to bring in the International Monetary Fund.
Mr Gilmore said this Government's legacy will be to take them out of the country.
He said that the Budget was tough and difficult, but he said it was necessary to bring about the recovery that his party said it would bring about at the general election.
Mr Martin asked the Tánaiste if he recalled the slogan "Frankfurt's way or Labour's way".
The Tánaiste told him he was suffering from withdrawal after 14 years in government, during which Fianna Fáil squandered the boom and put the country into hock.
He said the basic rate of social welfare had not been cut.
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