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Speeches and questions in Plenary and in committees, newest first. The Llywydd's and deputies' chairing of Plenary is left out.

5,385 speeches and questions

15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
We do. Well, I can't speak for everybody, but yes.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
There we are. Okay. Let's see if we can get a couple of areas in very, very quickly with questions and answers here. One is in respect of the part of the Bill that refers to the smoke control orders. It's taken our notice that you haven't mandated the…
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. We're into the last few minutes, but, James, go ahead.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. James, could I bring Alun in just for a moment? Alun.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Thanks, Pered. James, take us on, then, to a different area here.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay, okay. Thank you. That's helpful. Pered, take us on to timescales.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay, okay.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay, okay.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. Okay. That's brilliant.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
So, let me work then to the next question, which is, if I accept that, if we accept that as a committee, then why not, actually, put a duty to bring those targets forward, rather than a discretionary power?
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, okay, I accept that.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Which comes back to the way that the Bill is devised, in terms of balancing the socioeconomic and so on.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay, but you could put those WHO ones, even if you'd want to go further, perhaps, in some areas—you could put them into the Bill now and amend them subsequently by regulations. I'm just intrigued.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
It does raise the question of what targets are actually in place now. Are those not meaningful at all?
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Right, and Olwen is shaking her head as well.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
So, the targets you've put on at the moment, you're not convinced would be meaningful and the right targets.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay, thank you. Peredur, are you okay? Peredur, before we come back to you, can I just ask a couple of things, just following on from Alun there? There is a contrary argument, in terms of where you put targets, because you could have chosen to put targets on…
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Go on, Olwen.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. Alun.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
We'll leave it for the Counsel General's next consolidation Bill.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. Sorry, James.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. We get it. You made a choice on the way to proceed there. It leaves something of an untidy statute book behind it at a UK level. We'll have to come back to that at some point.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
You're going to commit the resources to tidying it up, then.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
The converse of this, then, is that there is a job of work to be done with the UK Parliament in tidying up their statute book now, because some of this is, you would argue, redundant, if this Bill proceeds.
15 May 2023Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. That's great. James.