The Finance Minister has defended the Government's Covid-19 fund being used for a raft of different projects

The response and recovery fund was set up in May last year for emergency response to the pandemic, and supporting sectors who need it.

That includes events like the Olympics and Wilding Conifer Control Programme getting their share of the cash from it.

Grant Robertson says there's a broad range of reasons why the money could be handed out, and they're confident it's being used well.

He says if you take the Olympic one, there was a significant cost on the delay of the event from last year to this year.