13 October 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Welsh in Education Strategic Plans (WESPS): Evidence session with Welsh medium early years, post-16 and adult learner provision
Good morning. Welcome back to this session of the committee this morning. We move straight into item 5, but, before we do so, I'd like to thank Alun Davies for chairing the committee this morning, and I'd also like to welcome Sioned Williams and Buffy…
11 October 2022 , Plenary
Debate on the General Principles of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill and Motion to agree the financial resolution in respect of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Minister. Plaid Cymru has campaigned for years to ban single-use plastics. I first called for a ban in 2019. This is an important step forward, and something that is very much to be welcomed. Because plastics have become an intrinsic part of our…
11 October 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being: 'Together for Mental Health' Strategy and Next Steps
Minister, I wanted to ask about the mental health impact of miscarriages. There's still this strange societal expectation that we don't talk about miscarriages, and people grieve for the little lives that were part of their world for a short time. They mourn…
5 October 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Thank you for that, Minister. Recent data from the Wales Governance Centre paints an extremely worrying picture of racism within the justice system. As this information was not publicly available, they gathered it through freedom of information requests. They…
5 October 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
6. Will the Counsel General provide an update on the Welsh Government’s efforts to reduce racial discrimination within the justice system? OQ58495
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Thank you. Picking up that point about confidence and people's behaviour and trying to nudge people into things, coming back to the carrot, Andy, you were saying earlier that one of the big challenges here is that people just don't want to do this, because…
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Chair, I know that we're going to be coming back to behavioural barriers, and we'll come back to that in a moment, if we could, because that is the really, really difficult element—well, the most tricky element of this. But just one final point before, I…
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
I like that you are extending this metaphor—that's good.
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Andy, is there anything you wanted to add?
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Diolch, Gadeirydd. I'll try and be as succinct as I can. Morning to you both. If you were listening in on some of the evidence we heard earlier, you will have heard that we were talking a lot about what the carrots and what the sticks are in trying to…
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Quickly, are there any alternatives to energy performance certificates that you think would work? If we had a Wales-specific system, how would that sit alongside a UK-wide EPC monitoring system?
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Diolch, Gadeirydd. Bore da. Thinking about what ways in which carrot-and-stick approaches can be used in trying to accelerate action towards decarbonisation in the sector, what effect or what impact do you think minimum energy efficiency standards have had?…
4 October 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Biodiversity
Diolch, Gweinidog. I'm glad that the Welsh Government is now, I hope, moving towards a more ambitious agenda when it comes to addressing the nature emergency. The debates on this area that we've had in the Chamber, I think, have shown that each and every one…
4 October 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
The people of Blaenau Gwent and across the Valleys have suffered disproportionately from Tory misrule. This is a direct consequence of the failure or, rather, the deliberate policies of successive UK Governments that continue to funnel wealth and investment…
29 September 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
And just to tie up this section with a rather large question, how does the Welsh Government intend to use this Bill to supplement or as part of its legal challenge to the internal market Act?
29 September 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Minister, how would you assess how this piece of legislation—the internal market Act—would impact on future amendments to the prohibited items list, please?
29 September 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Janet touched on this point earlier, the fact that, at the moment, there isn't a requirement to consult with or to take advice from stakeholders when amending the list of prohibited items. I take the point that you made, Minister, earlier…
29 September 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. I think that's gratifying to hear that there will certainly be willingness from the Government to look again at that. So, thank you.
29 September 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch. Yes, on the point you were making, Minister, about the wet wipe on your compost heap, I think it was in a previous evidence session where—forgive me, I can't remember who it was—someone pointed out to the committee that almost anything could be…
29 September 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
And it's always really difficult to get the plastic off the cucumber. [Inaudible.] I will mute myself— sorry.
29 September 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Minister. My bugbear on this, comparable with—. It's not the cold foods—well, that is also a bugbear—but it's when the fresh fruit and fresh vegetables have plastic around them, especially fruit. Why? Anyway—sorry. Diolch, Gadeirydd.
29 September 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
This reaches on immediately from what you were just talking about with the Chair. Could you explain, please, the reasoning for why you have included carrier bags and oxo-degradable products in the Bill, because it wasn't in the original consultation? And as…
29 September 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Minister, it's lovely to see you. I hope that you're feeling better, although I know that you've now got a cold, so I hope that you get over the cold quickly as well.
29 September 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session 6
Thank you, both, for that. So much of what you were saying there, and what you were saying earlier as well, seems to come under this gap, or the nebulous area, between what is being provided for in the wording of the Bill, and then there's this gap, and this…
29 September 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session 6
I think Craig wants to come in on this point as well.
