Catholic Schools NSW chief executive Dallas McInerney has been sacked days after giving evidence before the state\u2019s anti-corruption watchdog. <\/p>\n
The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption is looking into allegations Mr McInerney breached electoral funding laws by channelling funds through the peak school body to a secretive faction of the NSW Liberal Party seeking to bolster conservative and Christian voices in the party through branch stacking. <\/p>\n
In a statement, the board of Catholic Schools NSW said it had \u201cunanimously determined\u201d that it had lost confidence in \u201cDallas McInerney\u2019s ability to lead the organisation into the future\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs such, the board has now terminated Mr McInerney\u2019s employment agreement with Catholic Schools NSW,\u201d they said. <\/p>\n
Mr McInerney had stepped down after being named in the ICAC probe earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Catholic Schools NSW said interim chief executive Peter Yates would remain on an interim basis until a new chief executive was found. <\/p>\n
The organisation acknowledged that in her opening address, counsel assisting Peggy Dwyer SC indicated there was no suggestion Catholic Schools NSW was responsible for the conduct being investigated, or that members of the board were aware of Mr McInerney\u2019s alleged actions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe matters that are the subject of the inquiry are, though, of deep concern to CSNSW and to its key stakeholders,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe board will work constructively with them to ensure there is an externally conducted review of CSNSW\u2019s operations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Catholic Schools NSW represents 594 Catholic schools, educating about 274,000 students in NSW.<\/p>\n
The ICAC probe has been told multiple people \u2013 including former Reformers associated Dylan Whitelaw, who is not named in the probe \u2013 had done factional work while employed by Catholic Schools NSW. <\/p>\n
At the outset of his evidence, Mr McInerney indicated he wish to co-operate with the probe and to clear his name of any wrongdoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catholic Schools NSW chief executive Dallas McInerney has been sacked days after giving evidence before the state\u2019s anti-corruption…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[62574,79371,114786,114788,101119,59796,114796,39315,91236,37726,114784,8006,98996,114794,114783,37623,22,21,63753,71073,33169,114781,114790,4818,15710,114785,21210,50741,114782,33170,3115,101049,63755,114780,114792,10485,114791,114789,48271,114793,89073,66671,8137,114779,114795,114797,3593,37532,68439,10964,379,36688,114787,45653,63751,38186,42262,38131,37172,98098,39402,43639,68415,68405,49036,97334,37011,114778,63226,37964,36522,42261],"class_list":["post-77029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-s-ability","tag-s-alleged-actions","tag-s-catholic-schools","tag-s-employment-agreement","tag-s-operations","tag-000-students","tag-594-catholic-schools","tag-a-new-chief-executive","tag-a-secretive-faction","tag-a-statement","tag-about-274","tag-allegations","tag-an-anti-corruption-inquiry","tag-an-externally-conducted-review","tag-an-interim-basis","tag-any-wrongdoing","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-branch-stacking","tag-catholic-schools","tag-catholic-schools-nsw","tag-catholic-schools-nsw-ceo-dallas-mcinerney","tag-catholic-schools-nsw-chief-executive-dallas-mcinerney","tag-chief","tag-confidence","tag-conservative-and-christian-voices","tag-corruption","tag-counsel","tag-csnsw","tag-dallas-mcinerney","tag-days","tag-deep-concern","tag-dylan-whitelaw","tag-earlier-this-year-catholic-schools-nsw","tag-electoral-funding-laws","tag-evidence","tag-factional-work-while","tag-former-reformers","tag-funds","tag-her-opening-address","tag-his-evidence","tag-his-name","tag-icac","tag-icac-probe","tag-interim-chief-executive-peter-yates","tag-its-key-stakeholders","tag-loss","tag-members","tag-mr-mcinerney","tag-multiple-people","tag-newswire-news","tag-no-suggestion","tag-nsw-the","tag-one-state","tag-peggy-dwyer-sc","tag-the-board","tag-the-conduct","tag-the-future","tag-the-head","tag-the-icac-probe","tag-the-inquiry","tag-the-matters","tag-the-nsw-independent-commission","tag-the-nsw-liberal-party","tag-the-organisation","tag-the-outset","tag-the-party","tag-the-peak-school-body","tag-the-probe","tag-the-state","tag-the-statement","tag-the-subject"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}