Ms Oonagh McPhillips:

My defence is that we are human. I do not want to be defensive but to help the committee. We are human beings and this was an email sent two and a half years ago which was for information and which the two people in the conversation agreed and the Minister clearly understood that the Minister did not have a role in relation to it. Maybe the Deputy has a better memory than I do but I do not remember all my emails from two and a half years ago.