Independent candidate Gerry McKeever says he is disappointed with his result in this general election but has no regrets.
The Letterkenny businessman was eliminated on the 6th count today with 378 total votes.
This was McKeever’s first time in the political arena as he sought to inspire a new theory of governance.
Bowing out, the barbershop owner is satisfied that he did what he wanted to do.
McKeever told Donegal Daily: “If I didn’t do this I would be beating myself up. I have definite policies that would have made a difference if I could have got to Dublin. To influence policy with people thinking the same wavelength as me, but it wasn’t to be.”
“What is needed is a bit of vision and imagination,” he said of the 34th Dáil.
A large portion of McKeever’s campaign focused on affordable housing.
“My notion was that we frontload 10 years of construction work into the next three,” he said.
“That entails bringing people back from Australia to do that work, on the promise that with loosening planning permission they can build a house they can afford, an A-rated modular home at half the price. If you build a hundred thousand of those a year, you could bring down rents all over the country put money in people’s pockets and free us up again.”
McKeever said he is not even considering running again, but it may be too early to say.
Watch his interview with Charlie Collins here:
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