Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

I would like to explain because "a cup of tea" might seem that in some way I was denigrating the meeting. I certainly was not. As would be our normal practice at a meeting of that length, we finished our meeting at around 5.30 p.m. As would be the normal practice of the executive, we went for our normal debrief to a reception room where we would normally have tea at the end of the day.