The Nationalist Party has said that it will be tabling a motion for independent MP Rosianne Cutajar to return the money she was paid for an ITS consultancy which the National Audit Office said was “fraudulent” and “irregular.”

The National Audit Office on Tuesday issued a damning report about Rosianne Cutajar's former employment as a consultant by the Institute of Tourism Studies, stating that there were "concerns of negligence in the disbursement of public funds by all involved in this contrived engagement."

The report used the words 'irregular' and 'fraudulent' with reference to the nature of this employment. The report also highlights the NAO's concern that the contract had been backdated.

Cutajar, who was forced to resign from the Labour Party in April this year after chats between her and alleged Daphne Caruana Galizia murder mastermind emerged, insisted in comments outside Parliament that she had done nothing wrong.

The Nationalist Party however said that it is “illegal and unacceptable” that a person is paid thousands in taxpayer’s money for a “phantom job which they didn’t do.”

“The matter is made worse when this is done by one of the people’s MPs,” the party leader Bernard Grech said in a short post on social media reacting to the report.

Grech announced that he would be tabling a motion in Parliament for it to demand that Cutajar refunds the money she was “undeservedly” paid.