3 May 2022 , Plenary
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…
3 May 2022 , Plenary
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…
28 April 2022 , 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…
28 April 2022 , 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…
28 April 2022 , 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…
28 April 2022 , 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.
28 April 2022 , 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…
28 April 2022 , 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…
28 April 2022 , 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…
28 April 2022 , 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…
28 April 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2
I thought so. It's an unfair question.
28 April 2022 , 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…
28 April 2022 , 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.
28 April 2022 , 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…
28 April 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
Thanks, Chris.
28 April 2022 , 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…
28 April 2022 , 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…
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…
