Hello and welcome to our live coverage of today’s ICAC hearing, I’m state political reporter Jessica McSweeney and along with the Herald’s senior writers, we’ll be bringing you all the latest news from the corruption inquiry as it happens.

Today we are moving on to a new witness, Catholic Schools NSW CEO Dallas McInerney. The ICAC is investigating if consultant contracts between the schools body and companies linked to Liberal Party figures were not for genuine consulting work, but actually a way to disguise political donations.

First let’s recap what we covered yesterday:

• Jeremy Greenwood paid for his friend Jean-Claude Perrottet to stay in Fiji for two weeks to avoid a 2023 parliamentary inquiry, and gave him $25,000 in loans he hoped Jean Nassif would pay for.
• Private security was arranged by Jean Nassif’s employee Sharangan Maheswaran to help Greenwood avoid that same inquiry.
• Jean-Claude Perrottet said in text messages he was in contact with upper house MP Chris Rath during the 2023 inquiry, and that Rath would pass on information to him from a committee meeting while Perrottet and others avoided giving evidence.
• Greenwood paid Jean-Claude Perrottet half the amount received from a Catholic Schools NSW contract because he helped Greenwood secure the client, not for any ongoing work, Greenwood said.
• Greenwood and Jean-Claude Perrottet met at a pub after the former gave confidential evidence to the ICAC in 2025, and was warned not to discuss it with anyone. The pair left their phone on a different table, the commission heard. Greenwood said he could not recall if he discussed his evidence.
• In a heated portion of evidence Greenwood snapped at someone in the hearing room “don’t give me that look” prompting a swift warning from presiding commissioner Fabian Gleeson that he be respectful.
• A text to Jean-Claude Perrottet referring to “filthy schools money” was a joke, not evidence that his arrangement to pay his friend using Catholic Schools NSW money was bogus, Greenwood said.