Michael O'Leary has advised the Irish public to stop voting for 'lunatics' in elections.

In an interview on RTE, the Ryanair CEO claimed that the Irish voters have a 'depressing habit' of voting for those who present the biggest threats.

On the contributing power of Independent TD's, O'Leary said:

"Ultimately Independents do nothing. Independents are grandstanders. The worst governments we have had here is where they have been held to ransom by one or two independents."

Michael O'Leary on @RTECountryWide explaining @sinnfeinireland policies..God help him he should stick 2 the horses #clueless

— Louise O'ReillyTD (@loreillysf) April 16, 2016

"I think there is a local popularity contest or the local lunatic (contest). It’s all very well for people to be running around electing the local favourite or the local lunatic...but at the end of the day we have got to be a bit more sensible. We need to, whenever the next election comes around, vote in parties who are capable of running the country for a four or five year period."

O'Leary added that the propensity of Irish people to react poorly to bad news, is what provokes us to 'lurch from election to election.'

He also issued some critical comments in the direction of Sinn Féin, focusing mainly on their taxation policies for high earners.

"The idea of someone like Sinn Féin [with a policy that states] well we’ll tax the super rich - they tried that in England and many other countries; you try to tax the super rich to some super extent [AND]we’ll all disappear, we’ll all go offshore."

"I don’t want to go offshore but if somebody in the Sinn Féin party thinks I’m going to pay 80 or 90 per cent tax, I’ll simply move, I’ll emigrate. It doesn’t work. It’s all populist nonsense and rubbish."

Reacting to Michael O'Leary's assessment of the party's taxation plans, Sinn Féin spokesman Pearse Doherty assured that the party believe in progressive taxation and that Mr O'Leary's criticism is 'outlandish.'

Pearse Doherty has a pop back at Michael O'Leary: "His outlandish claims are not supported by the facts and are simply untrue."

— colin coyle (@colincoyle) April 16, 2016

“Sinn Féin has never argued for tax rates this high. In fact it is Micheal O’ Leary who is ‘utterly crazy’ in this regard. Income over €100,000 should be subject to an additional seven per cent of tax, which falls nowhere near that which Mr O’ Leary is suggesting. His outlandish claims are not supported by the facts and are simply untrue."