Page 371 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 19 February 1991
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Mr Duby, can you advise the Assembly, or undertake to do the research to advise the Assembly, what checks are required before monthly progress payments are made? In particular, are checks undertaken to ensure that subcontractors and suppliers have been paid for the previous month, before the monthly cheque is passed over?
MR DUBY: I thank Mr Connolly for the question. It is exactly the same question that he asked last week. I told him then that, whilst I did not personally know of the various checks that are undertaken within the public works contract management area, I would agree to report to you, if I remember correctly, and that commitment still stands.
Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, given that the Opposition is reduced to searching last year's and last week's Hansard to ask the same questions again, I ask that any further questions be placed on the notice paper.
TRADE WASTE SERVICE
Ministerial Statement
MR DUBY (Minister for Finance and Urban Services), by leave: In the 1990-91 budget statement, the Chief Minister announced the Government's decision to offer the Trade Waste Service for sale as a going concern prior to 31 March 1991, or to cease its operation by that date. This decision was based on the Government's view that it should not compete with, or provide, services which are readily available to the community through private sector providers at a competitive cost. The Priorities for Improved Public Sector Management report released in May of last year also recommended this course of action.
Public tenders were called in early December for the sale of the Trade Waste Service as a going concern, or for the individual goodwill, trucks and hoppers components of the business. Eight offers were received in response to the tender. The subsequent assessment and negotiation process has led to the position where I am able to announce that the successful tenderer is Pacific Waste Management Pty Ltd. The formal sale agreement was signed and exchanged yesterday, 18 February 1991. Under the sale arrangements, Pacific Waste Management will purchase the goodwill of the business and the hoppers. The ACT Government has retained ownership of the trucks for separate sale. However, under transitional arrangements, the trucks will be hired to Pacific Waste Management. These arrangements provide the best return to the Government, and I am more than satisfied with the overall result achieved through the sale of the business.
Letters from both the Department of Urban Services and Pacific Waste Management are being forwarded to all Trade Waste Service customers, advising them of the sale and
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