, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
A plug for Barry.
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General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Leti.
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General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Tom, then Leti.
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General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Alun.
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Diolch yn fawr. Thank you. Leti, did you have something about Cardiff—connecting to Cardiff airport?
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General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Shav.
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General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
You can indeed. That's fine. I'm going to hand over to Kiera.
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General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Personally, I think that's something, because Shrewsbury is a key infrastructure on the route. Linking on, therefore, there is an odd thing that's been raised a few times also, which is concessionary passes—hugely popular throughout Wales. From Shrewsbury…
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General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
In terms of lobbying, that's quite important, because it links into the next thing I want to ask you. Is that something we should be doing as a committee, then, because if that's an issue—or add our voice to any lobbying?
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General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Janet has to leave the meeting. Thank you for that. Moving forward to rail services, as they say in Welsh, 'Pawb a'i fys ble mae'i ddolur.' I don't know how you'd translate that, but that's another thing. We've heard a lot about the Valleys lines. The…
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Leti, did you want to come in?
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General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Thank you. I'm sure we'll take that on board. We'll discuss it later, but I'm sure it would be the sort of thing we could have a consensus on, hopefully. Alun, did you want to come in?
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General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Okay. Diolch yn fawr. Can we move on to railways, because that's a huge field of responsibility also? Perhaps we'll deal with the strategic element of railways first, rather than the second part, on actual services and things. We've got the Railways Bill at…
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
No doubt this will be an issue we'll come back to over the coming months, I think.
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General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
We'll let the Minister respond.
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Tom.
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Okay. Kiera.
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Thank you. Tom, did you want to come in on that point?
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Yes, exactly. Can I bring Alun in, and then Kiera?
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Thank you. And no doubt we'll keep you under scrutiny.
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General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Thank you. Diolch yn fawr. Obviously, those are big projects, big announcements and are very important strategically. In the meanwhile, we've still got a large road network that needs upgrading and—well, basically, it needs to be up to standard…
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General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Diolch. Tom.
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Shav and then Tom.
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General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Can I bring in Janet—a north Wales Member, of course—who is online? Janet.
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And in terms of funding, especially the Menai proposal—. Obviously it's a new road, linking into Ireland. In terms of its wider impact, and just the immediate economy, and in terms of funding, will all those options be considered and discussions pursued to…
