Derek McDowell (Labour)

He showed me where to sign and stated that he would sort me out. It was this kind of informality that marked Paddy's service in Leinster House.

I, too, saw the curriculum vitae with which we have been provided and it astonished me that Paddy has been a member of staff for so long. It is somewhat strange to be speaking about Paddy almost in the past tense because I know I will see him again, probably quite soon. Senator Brian Hayes damned Frank Lane forever last week by referring to him as a cultivator of chrysanthemums. My experiences of Paddy Behan tend to be in pubs in Marino late at night and, very occasionally, in the golf club in Clontarf, of which he, unlike me, has succeeded in becoming a member.