, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
4. What plans does the Welsh Government have to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the launch of the Wales coast path? OQ57994
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Item No. 8, then, we get to that point now where, under Standing Order 17.42, I ask committee members whether they're happy to exclude members of the public now so that we can go to the rest of our business in private. Are we happy to do so? We are. We'll go…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Okay, and then we move on to item No. 7, which is our papers to note. As per normal, I'll run through these at breakneck speed unless there's something that Members want to flag up, but we can of course return to these in private session as well. So, the…
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Inter-institutional relations agreement
Okay, and then we're on to item No. 6, our regular update on the inter-institutional relations agreement, and the first item on this part of the agenda is item 6.1, correspondence from the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd in respect of…
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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's brilliant. Thank you very much for that. Really helpful. Are we happy, then, with those observations, to note the fact that we've had the Welsh Government response to the report? Yes, we are.
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
Okay. Well, that's excellent. And we would be hopeful, if we've raised that informally, of some response from them as to whether they're going to adjust that.
, 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
Aha, right.
, 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
It takes us on to, then, item No. 5, instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 that we have previously considered. And the first of these is item 5.1, SL(6)175, the Renting Homes (Deposit Schemes)…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Okay. And I note that we have a former agriculture Minister here sitting on the committee as well, who's had great involvement with this. Okay, so we will wait for the analysis of the Government response, then, in next week's meeting, but, for the moment, are…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Ah, right, okay. And I wonder, do we know how often these are normally updated? We've had a two-year gap now. Is it normally annually?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
That would be brilliant. Go ahead, please.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Okay. That's great. So, we will bring that back, and we will bring that back to the next meeting for discussion, yes?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
On to item No. 4, instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3, and the first of these is a made negative resolution instrument, item 4.1, SL(6)190, the Agricultural Wages (Wales) Order 2022. And we have, in our…
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Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
No. Thank you very much. So, if we're happy to note and agree that—we are—we'll then go on to item 3.2, SL(6)199, the Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2022. Again, we have no points that our lawyers have…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Croeso nôl, welcome back, to this afternoon's session of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. We've just finished our session, just before the break, with our witnesses, but we now turn to our normal business, and we've got quite a bit ahead…
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Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Is there anything else that any of our witnesses would want to add? No. And, colleagues, are you content with that? Well, thank you very much, the Rt Hon Lord Lloyd-Jones, Professor Emyr Lewis and Dr Nerys Llewelyn Jones, as well. Thank you so much for your…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Well, we will definitely take up that and respond positively to that suggestion.
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Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Thank you, Alun, very much. Could I just, then, as we close, in thanking you for coming in front of us today—and it really has been a very informative session—just ask you how you want to keep the wider sector, but also the public and interested parties, up…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Diolch yn fawr. Alun, just before we wrap up this very useful session, is there anything else that you wanted to add to this?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Very interesting. Rhys.
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Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
That's very interesting. And do you see this—? I'm going to bring Rhys in in a moment, but does this reflect a model you would see elsewhere within the UK?
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Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
No, that's fair enough.
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Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Thank you, Peter. Before I hand to Alun, I'm very taken with the relationship of this discussion to some of your opening remarks, where you stressed that very much the law council would want to develop its work as an independent voice from Government, but…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Thank you, Alun. Thank you very much. We've probably got just short of 15 minutes remaining. I wonder if we can move on to the area of the economic importance of the legal sector and what the legal sector can do to actually support the economy as well. I'm…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Law Council of Wales—matters in relation to justice in Wales
Alun, are you happy with that? Do you want to go through any other areas as well? If you want to, by all means.
