Although McKenzie resigned over an undisclosed sports club membership from one of the recipient clubs, she maintains there was no wrongdoing in her administration of the scheme.
On Friday McKenzie was asked about nine late changes made to the list of projects approved in the third and final round of grant funding – changes made after the government had entered caretaker mode on 11 April 2019.
McKenzie noted that she had already refuted “false claims” that she had backdated a brief signed 4 April, explaining she had signed it on that date but changes were later made to the attached list by unnamed staff.