11 May 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Okay, thank you. Josh, are you in agreement with that?
11 May 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Okay, that’s interesting. Christine and Joshua, the same question about WHO targets. Does it need specific referral on the face of the Bill? Christine?
11 May 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Thank you, Chris. Chris, I wonder if I can just ask you one question that I'll put to the others as well there, which is whether you have a view, whether the Road Haulage Association has a view, on whether the WHO guidance that you referred to should…
11 May 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Thanks very much. Chris, I'm going to come to you now and give you the floor on the questions I asked before, if you want to touch on them as well, but particularly on this issue of targets. And I wonder as well, Chris, if you'd touch on some of the evidence…
11 May 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Thanks, Christine. I'll come to Josh, and then I'll come to you, Chris, as well. Josh.
11 May 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Okay. Thank you both. Chris, I haven't left you out; I'll come back to you in a moment on air quality targets, and, if you want to add to anything you've just heard, please feel free there. But I wonder if you have, Josh and Christine, anything that your…
11 May 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Thank you, Josh. And Christine.
11 May 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Thank you, Chair; good morning, everybody. I wonder—. I'm going to turn to the issues of air quality targets in a moment and dwell on them for a little while and get into some of the detail. But, Chair, I didn't mention at the start, because I'm never quite…
10 May 2023 , Plenary
Short Debate: Are salmon facing extinction from the rivers of Wales?
Let us ensure a clean Wales, a prospering Wales for our children and for their children. Thank you very much.
10 May 2023 , Plenary
Short Debate: Are salmon facing extinction from the rivers of Wales?
Current research attributes around 40 per cent of the salmon's reduced survival to freshwater impacts, so we must, therefore, do what we can to prioritise our actions on this element. And we note the interlinkage with other Welsh Government priorities—so, for…
10 May 2023 , Plenary
Short Debate: Are salmon facing extinction from the rivers of Wales?
A recent report from Natural Resources Wales on 'The identification and characterisation of small salmon populations to support conservation and management' is nothing short of alarming. It states that the species is indeed under threat here in Wales. And, by…
10 May 2023 , Plenary
Short Debate: Are salmon facing extinction from the rivers of Wales?
We as Members, as the people of Wales, need to work together to ensure a future, hand in hand, or hand in scales, with salmon.
10 May 2023 , Plenary
Short Debate: Are salmon facing extinction from the rivers of Wales?
Diolch, Llywydd, and just to confirm, I've agreed to give a minute of my time to Joyce Watson and to Cefin Campbell in this debate. So, today's debate addresses the paramount importance of salmon to the ecological balance and sustainability of rivers across…
10 May 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Petitions Committee Report—'From Five to Four? P-06-1247 Support trials of a four-day week in Wales'
One of the things, of course, that the social partnership looks at, and the overall procurement framework that we have in Wales, is ethical and responsible employment beyond those who are within the public sector, but those who trade with the public sector…
10 May 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Petitions Committee Report—'From Five to Four? P-06-1247 Support trials of a four-day week in Wales'
Will the Minister give way on that point?
10 May 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Petitions Committee Report—'From Five to Four? P-06-1247 Support trials of a four-day week in Wales'
Thanks for giving way. I just wonder what your thoughts would be on Sony Pencoed. Sony Pencoed don't operate a four-day week—they operate a four-and-a-half day week. They finish early on Fridays, and always have done for years, because they've seen the…
10 May 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee Report—'Annual report on the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales—2022-23'
But before I begin entirely, just to pick up on the points made by my fellow committee member Janet Finch-Saunders on independence, because it is touched on in the report. The commission here, like several organisations, receives funding from Welsh…
10 May 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee Report—'Annual report on the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales—2022-23'
Just to make a few comments, picking up on some of the observations made by our excellent Chair of this. It is a very short report, it doesn't have any recommendations within it, because we didn't feel—. This is very much a work in progress, but it was a…
10 May 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Bridgend and Rhondda Cynon Taf continue to be home to some of the most deprived areas in Wales, based on the Welsh index of multiple deprivation. There are significant differences in life expectancy between the most and the least deprived areas. There's been…
9 May 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
In which case, colleagues, could I ask you whether, under Standing Order 17.42, you're now happy to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting and we'll go into private? We are. If we can move into private, please.
9 May 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Okay. So, then we move to our normal item, item 6, papers to note. You'll be please there are no papers to note today, beyond those we've discussed already.
9 May 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
That takes us on, then, to item No. 5, notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement. Under this we have, first of all, item 5.1, a written statement and correspondence from the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales…
9 May 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 - previously considered
That takes us on then to item No. 4. Item No. 4 is instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 that we've previously considered as a committee. The first of these on our agenda today is item 4.1, SL(6)341, the…
9 May 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Okay, so while we're awaiting the response, are we happy to agree those points? We are. Excellent. Thank you, Kate.
9 May 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Okay. So, we're waiting for Welsh Government's response. Any comments, or happy to wait on that? In which case, we'll agree those reporting points. Thank you, Kate. That takes us to item 3.5, the last in this section, SL(6)352, the Education Workforce Council…
