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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
That this is normal in legislation. This is a normal way to deal with things. It's normal. Well, it's not normal, is it, to ask whether you're a woman or not a woman? Usually you would ask whether you're a man or a woman, wouldn't you?
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
Sorry, Victoria. You said that this is 'normal' in legislation. Is it normal to ask someone whether they're a woman or not a woman, rather than, 'Are you a man or a woman?' Because I think this is the only example I can find, globally, of that question being…
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
And, of course, we need more ethnic minority men in the Senedd as well, don't we, which this Bill also won't deliver. Can I just turn, then, to this issue of gender? Because there are two things, it seems to me, that are most contentious about this Bill. One…
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
Well, there's no guarantee on the face of this Bill that any women have to be selected as candidates who are from ethnic minority backgrounds. Nkechi, do you want to respond to that? You seem to suggest that the Bill would require parties to take some…
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
How do you know? How do you know it's going to include ethnic minority women?
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
Thank you, Chair. Can I just pick up on this issue of this being a start of further diversity measures? These Bills come around very rarely. This is the first Bill of its kind in the 17 years that I've been in the Senedd to try and advance diversity in the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Thank you for that response, Minister, and welcome to your post. I'm absolutely delighted to be a supporter of the National Library of Wales. I paid a visit there just last week with my colleague Sam Rowlands. We undertook a tour of the new Wales broadcast…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
5. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the future of the National Library of Wales? OQ60948
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport: Priorities for Transport: Listening, partnership, making change
You've already answered the points that I was raising, if I may say so.
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport: Priorities for Transport: Listening, partnership, making change
It was a question that I tabled, actually.
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport: Priorities for Transport: Listening, partnership, making change
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Dirprwy Lywydd. Minister, can I ask you about the A494 in Pwll-glas and in Llanferres? You mentioned the need for appropriate speeds on appropriate roads. Clearly, the speed limit of 40 mph through both of those villages is inappropriate…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Can I call for two statements today, please, Trefnydd, with, first, an urgent statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Health on the prevention of future death reports in the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board? As you may know, the health board recorded…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister, for that response. Like others in this Chamber, I have been very concerned about the increase in antisemitism, and, indeed, in anti-Muslim hatred, since 7 October, even on our streets here in Wales. Now, one of the things that the…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
Thank you.
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
Thank you. And any comments from other witnesses about that? Yes, Professor Krook.
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
It's the next woman on the list—
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
Just one final question, if I may, and it's back to what you said earlier on, Larissa, about vacancies. So, there's nothing in the Bill here that would require—. At the moment, if there's a vacancy in the Senedd, with the other reform Bill that's currently…
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
Okay, no problem. That's me done, Chair.
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
Okay. Any comments from—? Oh, we've lost—
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
Aren't you? Okay. I do apologise.
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
Professor Gomes.
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
Vertical and horizontal is important in order to achieve that parity. Because, obviously, it's interesting—when I've looked at the evidence of where quotas are in play, obviously, even where there are quotas on candidacy, very often it's still a…
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
Any other comments about very similar—? Yes, Professor Krook.
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
And can I also ask—? You mentioned Mexico just there; we know that many countries obviously use quota systems. Are there any that are similar to the one that's being proposed by the Welsh Government here?
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
Professor Krook.
