Former New South Wales minister Ian Macdonald has told a corruption inquiry his eyesight is too poor for him to have picked out a prostitute from a nearby table during a dinner with developer and accused murderer Ron Medich.

The state's Independent Commission Against Corruption this morning completed its seven-day public hearing into allegations Mr Macdonald accepted gifts and favours in return for helping Mr Medich.

The ICAC has been examining a dinner between Mr Macdonald and senior executives from Energy Australia and Country Energy in Sydney's inner west at the Tuscany restaurant in Leichhardt in July 2009.

The inquiry has heard the dinner gave Mr Medich a chance to lobby the executives for business for a company he had invested heavily in, Rivercorp.

An associate of Mr Medich, Lucky Gattellari, told the ICAC earlier this week he was asked by Mr Medich to organise for a collection of women to sit at a nearby table at the restaurant.

It is claimed the then energy and resources minister selected one of the women as a reward for organising the meeting.

After the dinner Mr Gattellari's driver took one of the women, an escort known as Tiffanie, to the Four Seasons Hotel in The Rocks and paid for a room.

Mr Medich then dropped Mr Macdonald at the hotel.

Today Mr Macdonald continued his evidence, telling the inquiry in response to questions from his lawyer that he probably was not wearing his glasses on the night of the dinner.

The former minister said he needs glasses to see anything at a distance, but often does not wear them for reasons of vanity.

Mr Macdonald told the ICAC he would only have been able to make out shapes when looking at another table at Tuscany.

Yesterday the former Labor MP said he went to the hotel, but only after asking Mr Medich to organise a remedial massage for a sore neck.

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He said once in the room he immediately fell asleep.

Tiffanie told the inquiry last week she undressed and expected to have sex with Mr Macdonald in the hotel room, but instead they lay in bed and kissed.

She said she had no experience or qualifications to give a massage, and was later paid $400 in cash for the encounter by Mr Gattellari.

Today Mr Macdonald also told the inquiry he was stressed during the night in question because he knew there were moves within the government to have him sacked from cabinet.

The former minister said he was also angry and depressed because a Sydney newspaper was referring to him at the time as "Sir Lunch-a-lot".

Mr Medich told the ICAC on Wednesday it was a coincidence he was at the restaurant at the same time as Mr Macdonald, and he was reluctant to be at the dinner because he was "busy".

The millionaire businessman and Mr Gattellari are both facing murder charges over the shooting death of Michael McGurk in September 2009, two months after the Tuscany dinner.