Normally he only comes out at night but this morning he made an appearance on Newstalk Breakfast.

Vincent Browne has spent the last two months trekking across the country for his series of ‘People’s Debates’ in each of the forty constituencies. The latest stop is Cavan-Monaghan and you can watch that tonight on TV3 from 10pm. 

During the interview, he spoke to Ivan and Chris about some of the concerns that have been raised at the People's Debates like the anger with the establishment parties and the leadership of Enda Kenny.

On what he has learned from the People's Debate:

"There is great anger with the establishment parties, Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Labour. There is disillusionment with the political system generally and there is a sense of dismay about what's happening.

"There are some activists but they would be a small minority of the audiences. The vast majority of people in the audience would say that they have no affiliation with any political group or any political party. It's their discontent that I think is the most revealing."

On the "Recovery" in rural Ireland:

"Not a single person has mentioned anything to do with house prices, nothing, and I suspect that's middle class preoccupation very largely.

"I think that people get annoyed at this talk about recovery and that hardly at all have the people that we have spoken to experienced any symptoms of recovery. There is an irritation with the repeated mantra of the government.

"People don't feel that at all."

On car sales:

"Car sales remain buoyant, they dropped a lot but there's still a lot of cars being sold right at the worst period of the recession. Wouldn't you think that would be the last thing people would spend money on? Bloody cars. And expensive cars were being sold during that time too. It's indicative of the scale of inequality there is and unequal experiences that people have living in the kind of society we have at the moment."

On whether Enda Kenny and Fine Gael have boycotted debates:

"They think that audiences are set up against them because audiences express anger at government policies and there is a perception that this is because audiences are rigged. But this is only reflective of the anger there is generally in our society and they have to deal with this in one way or another.

"You know Enda better than I do, Enda is nervous of the media generally and suspicious of journalists generally and thinks we're all out to get him.

"It's part of the paranoia of politics, you had it when you thought you were going to be the next leader of Fine Gael (to Ivan). Not that fleeting, it lasted a few years Ivan and I'm not sure it's gone away you know!"

On same-sex referendum:

"It's much more in the balance than we've appreciated and if Government ministers weigh in on the yes side, it could be lost. That doesn't take adequate account of the impact of the bishops and if they weigh in on the no side, they could win it for the yes side."

On water protests:

"I have always been in favour of measures to conserve water but in a manner that would exempt people who couldn't pay from the water charges.

"I think that there has been a drift towards removing the taxes from direct taxation, income tax and USC, to charges which are a good deal more unfair. This is a sinister development which has happened around the developed world and is being resisted and I think, properly resisted.

"I never got any material from anybody in connection with Irish Water, I don't know, I got nothing."

On Jobbio adverts:

"I was sent an email concerning this and I assumed this was an NGO.

"I agreed to do it provided that the fees which would accrue to me were sent to Concern and that's the basis on which I've done it.

"I think incidentally that it's quite wrong for journalists and radio presenters and television presenters to be earning any income at all from anything other than journalism. That introduces a bias in the way they approach things.

"I think all the stuff, going on gigs, and doing after-dinner speeches is insidious and you should stop it, Ivan."

You can listen back to the interview here: