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Debate: Human Rights
Thank you, Minister, for giving way to a brief intervention. There was a time, and I alluded to this previously, in the aftermath of the second world war, when there was a strong cross-party consensus on not just the importance of human rights, but…
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Debate: Human Rights
Well, because it's not only me saying them, Darren. In fact, it's not me—if it was me, I'd dismiss it entirely out of hand; I'm just the Member of Senedd for Ogmore. But, actually, the Equality and Human Rights Commission itself have looked at it, and they…
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Debate: Human Rights
I will indeed, Darren.
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Debate: Human Rights
Sioned chaired that group this morning, the cross-party group on human rights. It was fascinating, actually, listening to the discussion. And the points that I want to make—normally I'm restrained a little bit, Llywydd, in making these points, because…
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Debate: Human Rights
It's a great pleasure to follow Sioned.
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Debate: Human Rights
[Inaudible.]—withdraw the amendment. [Laughter.]
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Debate: Human Rights
It's simply to say I equally welcome the intervention there. Indeed, Darren has long championed that. If the Welsh Government does proceed in that way, and in the tone of the intervention from Darren, that makes it quite interesting, because we could end up…
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Debate: Human Rights
Would the Counsel General give way on that point?
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Debate: Human Rights
I wonder if the Counsel General will give way on that very point. One of the basic principles that even an A-level student will learn about human rights is that they are universal—they're non-negotiable, they are universal, apply to everyone. How then does he…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Update on Ukraine
Minister, everything you've said today in your statement reflects the experiences now of host families in my constituency. Some of these are—. They're just incredible families. They are living in terraced houses in my constituency, have not a great deal of…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 4
Yes, there are some interesting practicalities here, Mark. Sorry, Delyth, I know we're up against time. But if you have a situation where, let's say, as simple as, we suddenly have hydrogen boilers available. We have people who can install them. It's one job…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 4
Yes, there is another one and it links back to what we were talking about—the training that's needed for those people who assess the suitability of a property. Because I'm genuinely worried, both for the recipient of installations, but also for the installers…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 4
Thanks. I think you've covered what I was going to go on to, but I just want to ask two things. One is: have you been taken by the approach in Scotland with developing this idea of an installer matrix, where it has core modules that you can then build onto…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 4
Okay. Thanks. I won't pursue the one on remediation, Delyth; I'll leave that until later.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 4
So, Cat, let me just—. Sorry, Delyth, to pursue this further. Would you agree, then, that no measures should be taken at any property unless there is quality assurance at every stage of the process, and that includes the initial inspection to assess the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 4
Thanks, Delyth. Mark, I'll seen some brilliant installations over the years that have transformed people's lives for the better, and then I've seen some utter disasters that have ruined people's lives and livelihoods, where they've lost families and so on…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 3
Gavin, just to come back on that, everything you've described there describes the complexity of this and describes exactly the reasons why we've been unable to achieve this over successive decades. What is the thing that would transform, let's start with the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 3
Yes, thanks, Delyth. I'm still struggling to see—and this echoes a comment I made to the previous panel—the package of measures, sticks and carrots, that would give us the step change that we've struggled to achieve over years and decades within the private…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2
I thought so. It's an unfair question.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2
Yes. Well, okay, let me try this: Scott or Louise, on that basis, if Welsh Government were able to say, 'Well, we can look at that longer term rolling programme', but the obligation then, just speculating, was on you as a very powerful sector out there to use…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2
No, I'm going to shut up. I'll leave it until the private session afterwards.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2
Thanks, Joyce, and Delyth. I just wondered, if one of us was sitting there as a Minister at the moment, I guess one of my questions for you would be: well, at what point do we bottom out how we mainstream continual investment in social housing? Because we're…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
Thanks, Chris.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
If I could just follow that very briefly—if I've got time, I'll come back to this later on—one of the things that might hold this back, even if there was a will to start it tomorrow, is the capacity there in the workforce to actually deliver this. Because…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
Yes, thanks, Delyth. It's simply to turn to the issue of the home log books and this whole-house assessment that we've been talking about. Clearly it's being driven within the ORP, but, beyond the ORP, Chris, I wonder if you can tell us what discussions…
