Independent MP Rosianne Cutajar has insisted she did nothing wrong and denied the contents of a damning National Audit Office report which concluded that her former job as a consultant for the Institute for Tourism Studies was “fraudulent” and “irregular.”

Cutajar was questioned by Times of Malta outside Parliament on Tuesday, shortly after the report was published. She said that some of the Auditor General’s damning conclusions were “not true at all.”

Cutajar said she had not seen the report and would comment further once she did. She continued to insist she did nothing wrong, and that she worked for “every cent” that was paid to her.

The MP, when asked about the report’s conclusions, said that that was the auditor’s opinion, and it did not mean it was true, reiterating she had done the work.

The NAO’s damning report about Cutajar's former employment as a consultant by the Institute of Tourism Studies stated that there were "concerns of negligence in the disbursement of public funds by all involved in this contrived engagement.”

The report also found she was hired to do work she was not competent to do and that there was very little evidence to suggest she did any work at all, with the only evidence being screenshots of calendar events of two meetings, the fact that she was sent ITS’ organisational chart, and journal entries of four meetings of another ITS official.

Responding to questions outside Parliament, Cutajar said that it has been four years since the employment and had not held on to all documents from that time, remarking that people do not keep documents from four years ago if they do not need them today.

Cutajar continued to say that just because there is no evidence, it did not mean she did not do any work, having accounted for the work she did.

She said that she was not considering resigning as an MP, having already assumed “a lot of” political responsibility.

Cutajar also outrightly refuted claims that the ITS contract was backdated “by at least one month.”