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Legislative Consent Motion: The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Thank you. Probably not for the first time, Vaughan Gething has made my points for me far better than I made them myself. I think that if we are to accept this LCM this evening, then we will provide Members here with an opportunity to have those further…
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Legislative Consent Motion: The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
But voting against it will not achieve that objective. I've supported the extension and deepening of our democracy in this place. I supported the expansion of this democracy. I've supported, as other Members know, greater time to be spent on these matters…
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Legislative Consent Motion: The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Of course, we're not discussing this Bill, and that is the key issue for us tonight in this debate. It is a difficult debate for all of us, and all of us will be coming to it from a different perspective, with our own personal experiences and beliefs. I think…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: Welsh-speaking Communities
I welcome the Cabinet Secretary's statement this afternoon. I think it is crucial that we do discuss these issues. When I launched the 'Cymraeg 2050' scheme almost 10 years ago now, I think, I was clear in my own mind that we needed change and that generating…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: Local Growth Fund Investment Plan for Wales
I am coming to my point. By the mechanisms you've described, how will you ensure that there is a means for us as Members to have some confidence that this will be able to deliver for the people we represent?
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: Local Growth Fund Investment Plan for Wales
It’s very clear from your statement this afternoon, which I very much welcome, that Wales has lost out by many hundreds of millions of pounds as a consequence of Brexit. We've also lost out on our ability to shape how these funds were created, structured and…
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Questions to the First Minister
I'm grateful to the First Minister for her kind words earlier, and it is to the nation of sanctuary that I wish to return. The mark of any good Government is how it treats people. I'm grateful for the unity across this Chamber. I'm grateful to Darren Millar…
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Dissolution is determined in law, I think. But I don't think we—. We can come back within Easter recess, but there's only a week of Easter recess before dissolution, isn't there?
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No, that's not the case, Mike. We are able to come back in recess, but not after dissolution.
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Thank you.
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Could I ask that Gareth be asked to do that?
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Sorry, Gareth. We're testing you here now. I apologise for that.
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Is there a procedural means by which a Member or Members may seek leave of the Presiding Office that this debate be postponed to an alternative date, to a later date?
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I think it's a serious problem, but I am persuaded that we need to vote on this matter before dissolution. That is clearly the case, given the collision of different timetables with ourselves and Westminster. So, I am persuaded that we need to vote on this…
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I've got some sympathy with the Government on that matter. It does seem that these amendments are more procedural issues to slow down progress, rather than to actually improve the legislation. But the LCM, of course, is a technical process by which consent is…
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That's no problem at all. When I've challenged Government on this, the Government line, the Government position, has been that the date of the discussion of the LCM is of little relevance, because the substantive amendments left to be debated in the Lords do…
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If it was my question, there were a couple of questions there.
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Can I raise a point? I agree with other Members; I think there's unanimity on this committee on this matter. I have raised this with different people, and the advice that I expect the Government to follow in the Chamber tomorrow is that the timing makes…
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Group 8: Biodiversity targets: targets under new section 6B of the Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendments 40, 4, 5A, 5, 54, 6, 31, 42, 43, 45)
You haven't seen my amendments to this, but I think you've heard the contribution that I've made in a very considered way over a number of years. And the problem is, Llyr, when I've talked to members of Plaid Cymru about it, they agree with me in private, but…
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Group 8: Biodiversity targets: targets under new section 6B of the Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendments 40, 4, 5A, 5, 54, 6, 31, 42, 43, 45)
I look at the amendments, and I was reading the Bill before coming here this afternoon, and I'm very concerned—and the Deputy First Minister is aware of my concerns on this matter—that we are setting targets that will simply never be met. We are setting…
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90-second Statements
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. This month marks the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of a White Paper, 'University of the Air', which led to the establishment in 1969 of the Open University. The vision, of course, was driven by Jennie Lee, the…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Of course, one of the biggest challenges facing apprenticeship providers has been the impact of Brexit and the loss of European funding. In terms of the regional development funds that you referred to in your initial answer to Andrew R.T. Davies, I'm…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, I very much welcome the clarity of your statement this afternoon, that the Welsh Government supports the devolution of policing. It is important—[Interruption.] You always know you're right when Plaid Cymru and the Tories are shouting at you…
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Yes. I think this is, I’m sorry, not an adequate response to the questions that are being asked here, because I think simply saying decisions on the centre are for the UK Government is not good enough, because the whole purpose of this women’s centre was to…
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Inter-institutional relations agreement
In terms of this, this is quite an important group in terms of the ongoing negotiations with the EU, following the agreement last year. It would be useful, rather than just having this far too brief outline here, to understand where those negotiations are at…
