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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you, Russell. There are some really interesting ideas out there, but I'm going to hesitate from doing anything that looks like micromanaging bins across the whole of Wales. I can take responsibility for some things, but not for every bin. But there are…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thanks, Joyce, and, yes, I join you in paying tribute to all of those volunteers—some of whom will be in this Chamber, I'm sure, who join those gangs of volunteers—who work with Keep Wales Tidy to do local clean-ups. It's really important, and it sets a…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you, Joyce. We continue to fund Keep Wales Tidy, who support communities and local authorities right across Wales. This includes conducting litter prevention trials and interventions, co-ordinating volunteer clean-up activities as well, working with…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Fair play. Fair play. Llywydd, I imbibed his words and I am drunk on his rhetoric. Well, well, well. Look, let me just begin by indeed congratulating Velfrey Vineyard in Pembrokeshire on once again being shortlisted for the Countryside Alliance awards. And I…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch, Sam. [Interruption.]—not personally. The Welsh Government is pleased to continue to support the Welsh wine industry through the Food and Drink Wales drinks cluster, together with the promotion of the protected geographical indication status for Welsh…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Well, I’m pleased, when we appeared in front of the budget analysis for NRW, we were able to identify specific lines of funding that are going into NRW for particular purposes. This isn’t one of them, because, as I say, there isn’t currently the demand to…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Well, you raise the right questions, because, ultimately, yes, NRW have a key role to play in this. So do our local authorities within the powers that they have. But if those companies are still in existence, then they clearly carry a responsibility for…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Delyth, thank you so much. And this really is something that we do need to address, and we need to address it in Wales, but also as a UK and wider global issue. The increasing awareness of this means we have to act. We know that PFAS, the forever chemicals…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you very much, and it is a truly great question, because I’m really pleased to say the cross-Cabinet approach to delivering exactly the outcomes you’ve said has resulted—and my thanks to my colleague sitting to my right, as well as to Rebecca as well…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you, again, for that question, Janet. There’s good cross-Government work in this space, both with the current Cabinet but also with predecessors in this role as well. We’ve long maintained—. Sorry, I should say as well that this is work that is…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Janet, thank you very much for that question. I can speak for Welsh Government and the pioneering work that we’ve done here in Wales, preceding my time here in fact, in the establishment of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015. That’s the…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
John, thank you so much indeed, and for the work you're doing in championing the water vole, and the importance of focusing on species is because from that species runs that protection of landscape scale and habitats as well. It really works. I think probably…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Mark, thank you very much, and for the work that you're doing in championing this iconic species. We can sometimes be really pessimistic that we can do nothing on species like this, but I mentioned, I think it was last week, in a debate here, that I was out…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you, Mark. The Welsh Government has now invested over £150 million in programmes like Nature Networks and Natur am Byth to restore our most precious habitats and our species at local and landscape scales. Indeed, Curlew Connections is one project that I…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Carolyn, thank you very much indeed, and also for writing to me, and also for relentlessly championing this important matter. And there are others in this Chamber as well who have also been very outspoken on this issue as well. As you know, we fairly…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you, Peredur, and also thanks to you and other MSs for your engagement and for championing this, because of the too many eventualities that we have had that have been terrible incidents, and they still happen, so we do need to address this. And you are…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch, Peredur. I attended our annual responsible dog ownership and breeding summit on 24 October. This collaborative work involves multiple stakeholders, including enforcers and campaigners for dog welfare and for public safety. Can I say I'm very grateful…
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Debate: Natural Resources Wales's 'Case for Change'
Now, the next phase is due to start in early February. It'll involve a competitive selection process for roles against which multiple staff have been matched. Staff who've not secured a role by the end of this stage will be offered priority access to express…
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Debate: Natural Resources Wales's 'Case for Change'
It's not to do with specifically the staff working in the centres, bearing in mind that I'll come to the point that we're not getting rid of everything that's happening on these sites; it's the retail and the catering. Actually, there's a process going on to…
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Debate: Natural Resources Wales's 'Case for Change'
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm pleased to respond to this debate, and thanks to all Members who've raised their points eloquently, either on behalf of their constituents or on behalf of relevant matters to these important facilities and sites in some of our most…
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Debate: Natural Resources Wales's 'Case for Change'
Formally.
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Legislative Consent Motion: The Water (Special Measures) Bill
Strengthening the powers of water sector regulators, which is the fundamental objective of this Bill, will contribute to achieving our goals. It'll bring positive changes. So, in putting this forward today, on balance, because of the way the water sector…
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Legislative Consent Motion: The Water (Special Measures) Bill
No, sorry. There were lots of questions raised.
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Legislative Consent Motion: The Water (Special Measures) Bill
It is absolutely true, and we acknowledge this, that the Bill has been developed at pace. We've continued to scrutinise the proposed measures and consider all the potential impacts for Wales throughout the whole progress of this Bill in Parliament. We're…
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Legislative Consent Motion: The Water (Special Measures) Bill
Diolch yn fawr iawn. I'll try and address the many points that have been raised here. First of all, it is interesting to note in this debate that there seems to be a shared agenda on what we're trying to achieve here, through the outcomes of what this Bill…
