Acting NSW minster for sport Geoff Lee will "look into" decisions made by predecessor Stuart Ayres, following revelations in Friday's Herald showing the Penrith MP pushed for $12 million of funding to go to the Penrith Panthers weeks before the 2019 election.

The NSW Office of Sport is still trying to find another department to administer the financing for Panthers Western Sydney Community and Conference Centre (WSCCC) which Mr Ayres committed to funding as a sporting facility just days before the 2015 state election.

Geoff Lee unveiled a $50.5 million new roof for the Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre alongside tennis great Ken Rosewall on December 30, 2019. Credit:AAP

NSW Office of Sport CEO Karen Jones said she had "no idea" why other government departments would not take on the administration of funding the conference centre at Panthers.

When the Panthers project morphed into a conference centre with no relevance to sport in 2017 it created "reputational risk for the office of sport and the government", internal correspondence reported by the Herald revealed.