Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

He was a bit fancy with the dress all right. We all agree that he was incredibly idealistic, but it came as a bit of a shock that he was so idealistic that he would go to Fianna Fáil and think he could change the way it looked at things. That was a new one on me. I am amused that the Taoiseach was receiving the long text messages along with the rest of us. I do not know how he found time to do so many things as the text messages were so long. It was mad, but they were always very interesting. We had many discussions about NAMA and both agreed that it was a horror scene. His experience in the banking world meant that much of the time he knew where the bodies were buried. It gave him great insight and he understood the gentlemen about whom we were talking better than most of us here.

There is a lot we could say about Peter. We miss him and were very close to him here in a strange way. In the 17th century a fellow by the name of Francis Bacon defined a gentleman as one who treated all others as he would like them to treat him. It goes without saying they are pretty rare, but for me Peter was a gentleman.

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