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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Minister, I hope you enjoyed your visit to our excellent schools in Ffaldau and Llangynwyd last week.
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
In addition to the laudable target to achieve 70 per cent of Wales's electricity demand from renewable sources by 2030, of course by 2035 we're aiming for 100 per cent renewable generation. But we also have to find, and it's within your plans there, a…
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& 6. The general principles of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill
Will the Minister give way on that? I don't want to push this point but, curiously, actually, it's quite reassuring to hear the words on record and to hear the words in front of committees, but that, you recognise, is not quite the same as having on the face…
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& 6. The general principles of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. I'd like to open my contribution this afternoon by thanking the committee members and our clerking team, but also by emphasising that one of the key questions my committee considers is whether a Bill is fit for purpose as a piece of law. As a…
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Debate: The Draft Budget 2023-24
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd, and I'm speaking in my capacity as Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee, although, if I have time at the end, I have just one other point to add, taking that hat off. Our committee laid our report on the draft…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
In which case, we will go into private session to deal with correspondence and other matters we have in front of us this afternoon. So, under Standing Order 17.42, can I ask if Members are happy to exclude the public now for the remainder of the meeting? And…
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Papers to note
If you're happy to note that, we'll then go on to item 4, which are, indeed, papers to note. So, under this item, we have, first of all, item 4.1, correspondence from the First Minister in response to our letter of 21 December 2022 regarding the second…
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Inter-institutional relations agreement
We move on, then, to item No. 3, having disposed of those two instruments. Item No. 3 is notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement, and, in this item, we have the correspondence from the Minister for Finance and Local…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thank you very much, Kate. Any comments from colleagues? No. In which case, I think we're happy to agree the reporting points.
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thank you very much, Kate. Are we content with the reporting point there? We are. So, we'll move on to item 2.2, which is SL(6)314, the Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) (Wales) Order 2023. And we have a draft report. This Order sets out figures for…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
So, we move directly to item No. 2. Item No. 2 is instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 and 21.3. And we have here, first of all, item 2.1, a made negative resolution instrument, SL(6)313, the Education (School…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to this virtual meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. Just as a reminder, we are broadcasting this live on Senedd.tv, and the Record of Proceedings will be published as normal. Apart from procedural adaptations for conducting…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good afternoon. Welcome to you all.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good afternoon.
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. We laid our report on this LCM on 23 November 2022. We drew two conclusions and made three recommendations, and we’re very grateful to the Minister for his response to our report. As the Minister has said, the Bill amends procurement…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Interim Report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
I note the commission’s conclusion that there are, 'significant problems with the way Wales is currently governed', and that it has identified 10 immediate pressure points on the current settlement. Now, it’s interesting that these mainly relate to 'relations…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Interim Report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
I welcome this debate this afternoon. It will not come as any surprise that, as Chair of the committee with constitutional matters as a core part of its remit, I am contributing today. As a committee, we have not considered the report in detail, but we have…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
And with that, under item No. 7, if Members are happy, I'll put the motion, under Standing Order 17.42, to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting. Are we happy to do so? We are. So, we'll move into private, please.
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Papers to note
And then we have some papers to note under item No. 6. First of all, we have correspondence from the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd in respect of the Animals and Animal Health, Feed and Food, Plants and Plant Health (Amendment)…
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Inter-institutional Relations Agreement
Item 5, notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement. So, under item 5.1, we have correspondence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution on the inter-ministerial group for elections and registration. A…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
Great. Excellent. Unless Members have any comments, we'll agree that, then.
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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, instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3, which we have previously considered. We have one item here. It's SL(6)308, the Education (Student Loans) (Repayment)…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Okay. Thank you. With those points, I think we're happy to agree those reporting points.
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
But, as we develop new legislation and regulations, then it should be correctly—
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
I think so. Colleagues, any comments on those, or are you happy to agree those? They may be technical, but they are key to what we do, so—. Alun, yes.
