Former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro has been asked to appear before a parliamentary inquiry into his controversial appointment to a plum trade role based in New York.

He has been invited to front the committee on Monday, August 8. 

The parliamentary committee has been under pressure to call Mr Barilaro to give evidence.

Mr Barilaro on Monday gave an interview after footage surfaced of his involvement in an altercation with a news camera operator while on a night out in Manly on the weekend.

"Call me to the inquiry because it's you that's causing this intrusion and harassment," he told Nine Radio.

"It's you, the Labor Party. It's Chris Minns as leader and Penny Sharpe in the upper house who are turning this inquiry into a circus." 

But the Opposition maintained the NSW government had not handed over all the documents requested under a parliamentary order, which it insisted were needed to put to Mr Barilaro as evidence.

Labor said the documents had now been handed over and also the paperwork, deemed secret, would be made public.

Shadow Treasurer Daniel Mookhey said this was "a victory for the public's right to know".

"And it's a defeat of the government's attempt to cover up these documents and the information they contain." 

It has also prompted the calling of Mr Barilaro to the inquiry.

"We've always said all along that once we have the documents that we are in a position to resume the public inquiry," Mr Mookhey said.

The government agreeing to make the documents public has also resulted in the Opposition withdrawing its request to recall parliament in the upper house tomorrow. 

Labor MLC John Graham said the threat to recall parliament worked. 

"We make no apologies for holding the government to account," he said.

"Keeping the government under extreme pressure here to make sure this has happened."

The parliamentary inquiry also plans to call the Mr Barilaro's former chief of staff, Siobhan McCarthy, and ask bureaucrat Amy Brown, who oversaw the recruitment process, to appear again before the committee. 

Mr Mookhey, who is part of the committee, said the inquiry also planned to scrutinise Trade Minister Stuart Ayres's role in the appointment process.

"We will be focusing on the role of Mr Ayres in the selection processes," Mr Mookhey said. 

"Mr Ayres has some very serious questions to be answering here."

Mr Barilaro successfully applied for the New York job after leaving politics last year.

However, last month he announced he would withdraw from the job, which comes with a $500,000 annual salary package, following intense scrutiny over the recruitment process.