Questions on rail worker strikes, teacher shortages and John Barilaro’s controversial appointment to a New York office will be fired at NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet when he rounds out a fortnight of parliamentary scrutiny into his government.
Mr Perrottet will be accompanied by his top bureaucrat at budget estimates on Wednesday, amid increasing pressure to resolve disputes with teachers, nurses and rail workers.
Nurses want patient-to-nurse mandates and three in five educators are planning to leave the industry within five years.
Meanwhile, Mr Perrottet’s tough talk to get the rail union to end industrial action has resulted in train station ticket gates being fully activated again and no more planned strikes.
But the sides are still at loggerheads on pay and conditions, with the fight now with the Fair Work Commission.
MPs are also expected to quiz Mr Perrottet on the government’s appointment of former colleague John Barilaro to a plum New York-based trade role.
Mr Barilaro, the deputy premier under Perrottet predecessor Gladys Berejiklian, was controversially announced NSW’s agent-general to the US after the recruitment process for the $500,000-a-year New York-based role was run a second time.
The former Nationals leader denies any impropriety.
The lowdown will also be sought on the fallout from NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler’s resignation letter in July.
Mr Chandler, who was later talked out of leaving, had noted a problematic relationship between him and the fair trading minister, Eleni Petinos.
He also raised concerns over a relationship between Ms Petinos and a property developer, which briefly employed Mr Barilaro.
Mr Barilaro met Mr Chandler in May to discuss a stop work order issued at the group’s Merrylands development, which was lifted in July, three days before Mr Chandler sent his resignation letter.
While the minister was sacked hours after Mr Chandler’s letter was forwarded to the Premier’s office, Mr Perrottet has said it was not the reason behind the sacking.
The letter was also sent to Department of Premier and Cabinet secretary Michael Coutts-Trotter, who will join Mr Perrottet at the hearing on Wednesday.
Other officials, including the electoral commissioner, will be questioned later in the afternoon.
-AAP
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