Independent Seanad by-election candidate Gerard Craughwell will meet legal advisers tomorrow afternoon, to decide on his next steps, as the controversy over the selection of Fine Gael candidate John McNulty continues.
He said: "I am not going away. I don't want to bring the Government and the judiciary into open battle.
"I think the Upper House has been severely tarnished by what has gone on and I don't want to do anything that will further damage the Upper House.
"The people decided that they want to keep the Seanad and it is not a play thing for any Taoiseach or any government," he said.
Mr Craughwell had asked the clerk of the Seanad to remove Mr McNulty's name from the ballot paper as he believed he did not have the necessary qualifications.
He also re-submitted his original complaint that a committee should look at his qualifications.
However, Mr Craughwell withdrew that complaint after hearing that Mr McNulty was a member of the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
However, he said he did not realise at the time he had been recently appointed.
Meanwhile, Sinn Féin Deputy Leader, Mary Lou McDonald, has said that Taoiseach Enda Kenny has questions to answer about the appointment of Mr McNulty to the board of IMMA - days before Fine Gael nominated him in the Seanad by-election.
Speaking on RTÉ radio's This Week programme, Ms McDonald said Mr Kenny needed to state whether or not he directed or encouraged the Minister for Arts, Heather Humphries, to appoint Mr McNulty to the IMMA board.
Speaking on the same programme, the Reform Alliance TD and a former Fine Gael member, Lucinda Creighton, said the suggestion that the appointment and nomination were not linked showed that the Government was treating the Irish people like fools.
She also said that Ms Humphries has failed to answer questions on how Mr McNulty came to her attention as a potential appointee.
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