Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I would like to be associated, if I may, with the Senator's tribute to the three great Irishmen who passed on to their eternal reward recently, namely, Dr. Maurice Hayes, Peter Sutherland and former Deputy Paddy Harte. Paddy Harte was a Member of the Dáil from 1961 until 1997. He served from the Seventeenth Dáil through to the Twenty-seventh Dáil. Peter Sutherland was one of the great Irishmen of his time and an international statesman. I was a Member of the Seanad with Maurice Hayes from 1997 until 2007. We stayed in the same house in Dublin and often had breakfast and tea together. The Leader will arrange that we will pay tributes on another day.