Question - City Services

1. Given that, on 27 February 2025, Veolia announced that (a) it won the ACT tender to build and operate the new resource recovery facility and (b) the contract was worth more than $850 million over 20 years, and that the ACT Government previously reported an ACT Government contribution of $16 million for construction and a Federal Government contribution of $10 million, what is the total value of that contract over 20 years.
2. How much of the contract is for an annual service fee to operate the facility and how much is to build that facility.
3. What will be the total contribution from the Federal Government for the facility.
4. Is the contract based on recovering high-value packaging material that is either cheap or profitable to recycle.
5. What will happen to low-value packaging material that is not cheap or profitable to recycle.
6. Has the contract been put together on the assumption that national product stewardship/extended producer responsibility will mean that soon, all packaging material will either be recovered at the cost of industry or will be cheap or profitable to recycle.
7. Is there flexibility in the contract to deal with the situation of what happens if national product stewardship/extended producer responsibility is not made mandatory for packaging or otherwise does not deal with most of our packaging.
8. Is the contract on the contracts register; if so, what number is it; if not, when will it appear on the register.

Please see attached PDF for a copy of the answer to question on notice No 308.