20 September 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, in your engagement with the new Prime Minister, when that happens, could I ask you to raise the pressing issue of clarification on the issue of fracking? Now, fracking is unsustainable and untenable environmentally and in respect of the…
13 July 2022 , Plenary
Finance Committee Debate: The Welsh Government's spending priorities for 2023-24
I welcome this opportunity to speak in this Finance Committee debate on the Welsh Government’s spending priorities for 2023-24, and drawing on the committee’s experience of its first ever budget scrutiny on the 2022-23 draft budget. The reason I'm speaking is…
13 July 2022 , Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Basic Income and the transition to a zero-carbon economy
Jane, thank you for giving way so generously. Would you note as well that there is actually a small but significant voice in the Conservative right that actually supports UBI on the basis of freeing people and giving them the ability to be entrepreneurial, to…
13 July 2022 , Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Basic Income and the transition to a zero-carbon economy
It's only to make a very simple point in terms of manifestos: manifestos are for the term, the duration of a whole Senedd, not for delivery on day one. Although I have to say, five of the key points that we had in Labour's manifesto have already been…
13 July 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Can I just ask a short follow-up? It links back to an earlier question. In moving more towards the White Paper proposals, franchising bus services, a more joined approach, CJCs, regional partnerships, a more co-ordinated approach to it, does that offer hope…
13 July 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Thanks very much. As somebody whose part of the metro has one hourly train coming from Maesteg—and I missed it by one minute this morning, so I had to wait for the next one—we don't feel fully embedded. If north Wales doesn't, Maesteg doesn't feel quite fully…
13 July 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
I guess what I'm asking, Chair, is what would the WLGA's view be, what would local authorities' view be on the approach that should be taken by Welsh Government. Should they stipulate that we have not just high aspirations, but that this will be the approach…
13 July 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Just a very quick follow up, and it goes to the heart of Delyth's question. Do you think that in the White Paper there is sufficient clarity to ensure that everybody—no matter where they live in Wales, what community, how currently isolated they are—will have…
13 July 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Thank you, Chair. Can I ask whether you think, on that basis, that we should in Wales, with some top-down direction from Welsh Government, apply exactly that normative approach to public transport planning, where you say the values we expect to have from…
13 July 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Chair, rather than asking everybody to reply, could I just ask you how good do you think we've been at promotion and marketing of public transport, community transport, and alternatives to the car before the pandemic? And how good do you think we are…
13 July 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Thanks, Chair. Very briefly, if we pull all this together—nudges, tackling the supply-and-demand issues, technical fixes to make it easier and more convenient to travel by bus and less convenient, I think we have to be honest, to travel by car, and make that…
13 July 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
A very short supplementary, thanks, Chair. Is there any difference between those areas where the operators, such as a municipal authority in Cardiff, have higher wages, and other operators, in terms of that driver shortage? Is there a difference, where there…
12 July 2022 , Plenary
Debate: Stage 4 of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
Thank you, Minister, for giving way. One of the reassurances the Minister could give to the Senedd today, in the collaborative way that she has taken forward these changes to the existing legislation and proposals for what comes forward—. In those proposals…
12 July 2022 , Plenary
Debate: Stage 4 of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
Will the Minister give way on that point?
12 July 2022 , Plenary
Debate: Stage 4 of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
Diolch yn fawr iawn. He raises an important point that the LJC committee raised, but, actually, we looked to the Minister to make amendments to this piece of legislation now in order to be able to deal with issues that have already been taken forward in the…
12 July 2022 , Plenary
Debate: Stage 4 of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
Llyr, will you take an intervention?
12 July 2022 , Plenary
The Plant Health etc. (Fees) (Amendment) (Wales) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2022
Diolch, Lywydd, and for the final time today, Minister. [Laughter.] We considered these regulations yesterday afternoon, and our report contains two merits reporting points. While we have not sought a Welsh Government response to those points, our second…
12 July 2022 , Plenary
The Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
Diolch, Llywydd. Far from the weighty policy matters here, we've got some technical and merits points to raise in terms of making Welsh law accessible first. The Order is made in exercise of the power in section 81(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984…
12 July 2022 , Plenary
, 8. & 9. The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Housing Association Tenancies: Fundamental Provisions) Regulations 2022, The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment of Schedule 12) Regulations 2022 and The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment) Regulations 2022
Thank you, Minister, for your kind comments about the work that we've done and the engagement that you've had with us on this. In respect of your opening remarks, we do love 'technical and complex'. The suite of regulations today is part of the third tranche…
12 July 2022 , Plenary
, 8. & 9. The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Housing Association Tenancies: Fundamental Provisions) Regulations 2022, The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment of Schedule 12) Regulations 2022 and The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment) Regulations 2022
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you, Minister. We considered this suite of regulations during our meeting yesterday and laid our report straight after.
12 July 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: 10-year Welsh in Education Strategic Plans
I simply want to come in on the back of Luke's comments there, because there is a fair degree of confidence that the Minister has expressed in Bridgend, and also in the Rhondda Cynon Taf patch of my constituency as well, in their WESP plans going forward. But…
12 July 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: 10-year Welsh in Education Strategic Plans
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer; I apologise.
11 July 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
And that does bring us now to item No. 8, our regular motion under Standing Order 17.42 as to whether we're happy to exclude the public for the rest of the meeting so that we can discuss things now in private. Are we happy to do so, colleagues? We are. In…
11 July 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
That brings us on then to item 7, papers to note, beginning with item 7.1, and, again, shout at me, colleagues, if you want to pause on any of this. But the first one is correspondence from the Minister for Social Justice, noting the committee's request for…
11 July 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
We move on to item No. 6, notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement. The first of these is item 6.1, where we have correspondence from the Minister for Economy that informs the committee that a meeting of the…
