One Laois TD has had his say on Peter Casey’s comments about possibly running for a general election as a Fianna Fáil candidate.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman and Laois TD Sean Fleming said that no main political parties can be taken over by a person. He stated that this approach and language was for business, but that, “politics doesn’t work that way.”
Mr Fleming made the comments on Newstalk Breakfast, saying that Fianna Fáil is a democratic party, not a company where someone can “move in and take over the top job.”
He also said that if Fianna Fáil had put forward their own political party candidate for the Presidential election, Casey might not have received as many votes.
He said, “There was a vacuum here. I’m quite sure had there been someone standing for the main political parties, those 340,000 would not have voted for Peter Casey.”
Fleming also backed Fianna Fáil’s decision not to run a candidate in the presidential election. “Micheál Martin made a clear decision. Michael D was doing an excellent job and from that point of view that was a correct decision.”
He was on Newstalk Breakfast to defend PAC’s decision to examine Áras spending every year.
Senior civil servants will be asked to account for the money that is being spent in the Áras and on the office of the President.
He stated that they did not, “step over the line. We should have been doing this every year.”
You can listen to the podcast in full here, with Deputy Fleming’s comments coming in around the 10 minute mark.
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