, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
And on that co-production, just one final question—we could go at this for ages, and it's a fascinating area, but the scale of this is immense there. The delayed taxi and private hire legislation, I assume you'll say that's been delayed as well, so, possibly…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
That brings me really neatly to my next question, and I'm deliberately pushing you hard on this because I want to know. These massive changes that we're talking about, do we have the capacity, the expertise, the willpower within our public sector to deliver…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
We've had the conversation, yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Okay. Well, I'm—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Yes, but from everything you're saying in powerfully arguing that case then, any restructuring, any legislation that comes forward, has to go hand-in-hand with realigning the economics that underpin this. We have to invest significantly more in allowing…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Okay. Thanks. I appreciate your honesty. I'm pushing you hard, and you're pushing back hard, because of the scale of the challenge that we absolutely have to meet here. Can I turn to the issue of bus franchising, the legislation that might be coming forward…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Not unless you're an alpine cyclist.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Tell us where the remaining political challenges are within making this happen. I agree with you; with the things you're putting in place already, you're driving this agenda. Are people coming with you? Are politicians throughout the land coming with you? Are…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
There can be no doubting that you've got the plans, you're working with the evidence, to make these changes. The question is, can we absolutely drive this at the pace you want to see, and that we need to do? Let's deal with some practical things. There's no…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Everything you're doing at the moment, Minister, everything Government is doing on this issue, is pushing against the grain, as you say, of decades of established thinking, and taking the public with us, as well as changing officials within every…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Thank you, Chair. I want to turn to public transport. There are some exciting things coming down the pipeline, we understand, from Welsh Government and so on, but let's try and unpack these a little bit. First of all, everything we've heard suggests we need…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
—to give us some of that real data.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
I'm wondering whether you could ask your team—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
It's very short. In terms of the leaseback programme that you've talked about, which I think is a great initiative, are you able to give us anything that shows how that is going? I'm thinking particularly in terms of mapping it by local authority uptake, but…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
I think I've probably thrown this at you before in some setting, but are you tempted by the Scottish model, where they're setting in place strict qualifications around the assessment and that anybody who goes into the home—? So, that doesn't mean that an…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
It's a really short one. It's not to do with the insulation, or the right technology being applied in a particular circumstance, it's to do with the quality of the assessment and the training, or lack of, that we're giving to that. Because there are many good…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
I absolutely get that. This Government hasn't been afraid of taking some quite radical decisions in terms of environmental matters, sometimes controversially. If that deep dive of experts would come forward and say, 'Well, actually, we consider the baseline…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Yes. Minister, you just mentioned the biodiversity deep dive on two occasions, and I know it's important to you to see the outcomes of that. Can I just ask on a point of overarching principle: are you seeking, in your marine planning, and the biodiversity…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Cost-of-living Update
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. One of the defining characteristics of much of the support that Welsh Government has provided to date is how well targeted it is at those who are most in need. So, whether we look at the fuel voucher scheme, the heat fund, the healthy…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I think the First Minister's response describes well the tsunami now that is affecting people right across Wales, from Ogmore north, south, east and west, and it really is happening, and it's not hidden away—we're actually seeing it now evidently every single…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
7. What assessment has the Welsh Government made of the impact of the rising cost of living on the people of Ogmore? OQ58193
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Well, colleagues, unless there is anything else, and to the great disappointment of the crowds who are watching this on our Senedd.tv there, under Standing Order 17.42, can I ask if you're happy to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting so that…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Okay, so we'll go on, then—rattling through the business here in public session today at the moment—to item No. 5. We have several papers to note. First of all, under item 5.1, we have a response from the Minister of State to the chair of the Constitution…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
We'll move on to item No. 4, then, which are the inter-institutional relations agreements. Now, under this, item 4.1, we have a letter from the Counsel General informing the committee that he intends to give consent for the UK Government to make the European…
