28 April 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
No, because we'll come on to this. It just strikes me, from the conversation we're having, that social landlords have their hearts in the right place but they also have the benefit of having financial mechanisms lined up that steer them towards reconciling…
28 April 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
Yes, simply to ask Ed or anybody else, how do you reconcile, then—? Sorry, what would your advice be for policy makers on reconciling those sometimes conflicting tensions between different policy objectives? Because the danger is here that that becomes an…
28 April 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Appointment of temporary Chair
Can I nominate Delyth Jewell for Chair for today, please?
26 April 2022 , Plenary
& 13. Debate on the General Principles of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill and Motion to agree the financial resolution in respect of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
I'd like, in my opening remarks, to thank my committee members and the clerking team for the attention that they've put to this particular Bill. But I'd also like to thank the Minister for arranging a meeting with me and with the Chair of the Finance…
26 April 2022 , Plenary
& 13. Debate on the General Principles of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill and Motion to agree the financial resolution in respect of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
Thank you, Llywydd. I welcome this opportunity to participate in this debate on the general principles of the Welsh Government's second Bill of the sixth Senedd. Our report came to four conclusions and we made 18 recommendations.
26 April 2022 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Health and Care Bill
And I welcome the comments of my fellow Chair there on the issue of using this approach of LCMs for making legislation. Llywydd, I'll state for the record that our latest report should be read in conjunction with our earlier reports, some of which touch on…
26 April 2022 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Health and Care Bill
We have produced three reports covering the four consent memoranda that have been laid by the Minister on this Bill. Given that it was only at the beginning of the Easter recess that memorandum No. 4 was laid, our third report was laid just yesterday…
26 April 2022 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the British Sign Language Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. We considered the memorandum at our meeting of 28 March and we reported on the memorandum yesterday. We don't turn to the issues of a policy; that's been ably done by my fellow Chair Jenny Rathbone and her committee, but I agree with the…
26 April 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Planned Care Recovery Plan
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd, and I will keep my question very brief indeed. First of all, I do welcome the plan, because it does give hope, particularly with the targets, but those now have to be not only achievable but delivered as well. Because a lot of us who…
25 April 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
That brings us on now to item 9, which is our standard motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting so that we can discuss further matters in private. Are we happy to do so? We are, so we'll now move into…
25 April 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
And then, finally, we go on to some papers to note. Under item 8.1, we note the letters from the Minister for Education and Welsh Language in response to the recommendations made by this committee and the Finance Committee in their Stage 1 reports on the…
25 April 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Written statements under Standing Order 30C
It brings us then to item 7, written statements under Standing Order 30C, and the first of these we have is under item 7.1, the written statement WS-30C(6)007, the Organic Production (Amendment) Regulations 2022. We have a written statement in our packs and a…
25 April 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
Okay. So, we'll move now on to item No. 6, the inter-institutional relations agreement. Under item 6.1, I draw your attention to the letter from the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd confirming that a meeting of the inter-ministerial…
25 April 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Common frameworks
Thanks, Alun, and thanks for drawing this to our attention as well. And certainly, it's an issue that we've discussed, and you've raised before in committee, and I think when we go into further discussion in private session today, I think there might be a way…
25 April 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Common frameworks
So, in which case, if we are content with that, we can move on to item No. 5, which are your common frameworks, a regular piece on our agenda. We have, under item 5.1, a written statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution on common…
25 April 2022 , 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 to item 4, which is instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 that we have previously considered. Now, we've grouped together here items 4.1 and 4.2. So, we have SL(6)130, the Renting Homes…
25 April 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thank you very much. So, are we happy to agree that? We are.
25 April 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thank you, Gareth. So, with that explanation and those reporting points, are we happy to agree that report? We are. Thank you. Item 3.6, then, SL(6)196, the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 9) Regulations 2022. We…
25 April 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
That's really helpful. I think we're happy with that. Thank you, Gareth. That takes us on, then, to item 3.5, SL(6)194, the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022. We have a draft report, a letter from 8…
25 April 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
That's helpful. I can see Rhys is nodding. Are you happy with that, Alun and Peter? Yes. Okay. We'll do that, then, Gareth. Thank you very much. Item 3.4, SL(6)195, the Non-commercial Movement of Pet Animals (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2022. Again, we…
25 April 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thanks, Gareth. I can see colleagues nodding. Are we happy to agree those reporting points? We are. Thank you, Gareth. On to item 3.3, then, SL(6)188, the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2022. We…
25 April 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thank you, Gareth. Are we content with that? We are. Thank you very much. Thanks, Gareth. That takes us on, then, to item 3.2, SL(6)183, the Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022. Under paper 3, you have a draft report there as…
25 April 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Item 3, then, is instruments in the section that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3, and the first of these comes under made negative resolution instruments. It's item 3.1, SL(6)181, the Health Protection…
25 April 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
So, we'll go straight into business, because there's plenty ahead of us. Our first one is the standard item of business, which is the instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. We have several of these, which have come to us…
25 April 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome back to this session—the first session we have after recess—of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. We've got quite a busy agenda to get through today, because typically what happens is we have a bit of an accumulation of work when…
