The former MEP has announced he will stand two weeks before election day
Mick Wallace announced on South East Radio on Friday that he will stand for election in Wexford . Photograph: Eric Luke
Election 2024 live updates: Mick Wallace confirms he will run, Soc Dems pledge to reintroduce ban on no-fault evictionsElection Daily: First week of the campaign down, now it really beginsWexford has gone from a five-seater to a four-seater constituency, with 50,000 voters in the county now going to the newly created Wicklow-Wexford constituency
He said he would put his name forward because he had been one of the few people in Dáil Éireann who knew anything about housing. He had warned that the costs of the children’s hospital would rise well beyond €1 billion, but was ignored, he added. “Opposition is incredibly important and I don’t see much of it. I see most members of the Dáil become part of the mainstream,” he said. “I would have been demonised in the Dáil for the police and stuff. I probably challenged the Nama stuff single-handedly. I made it plain that the whole children’s hospital thing was a scam when it should have cost less than a billion.”
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