, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Renewable energy generation in Wales - evidence session 2
That's fine, no problem.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Renewable energy generation in Wales - evidence session 2
Chair, do you want me to ask about local authority capacity?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Renewable energy generation in Wales - evidence session 2
Okay. Well, I think we'd love to hear more about that, but perhaps in writing, with some detail of what that means for Wales.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Renewable energy generation in Wales - evidence session 2
They're not fully worked up yet within Wales, are they? We're still scoping out where they'll be, how they're developed?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Renewable energy generation in Wales - evidence session 2
Thanks, Chair. I'll try and do this really quickly and skip over the areas we've done already there. Can I just ask you for your view on the contribution of what we now know as constraint management zones? They're a feature of every electricity provider in…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Renewable energy generation in Wales - evidence session 2
Thank you, Chair. Look, my apologies if I'm being absolutely dense here, and that's not beyond the realms of possibility, but I've heard all this stuff before. We've been through this before—better engagement, better community engagement, lining up all the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Renewable energy generation in Wales - evidence session 2
Yes, thank you, Chair, and it is directly related to this point. You touched on the fact that, over the years, one of the major constraints on enhancing, strengthening the grid capacity through mid Wales, and mid Wales to west Wales, has been local…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Renewable energy generation in Wales - evidence session 1
That's great, Chair, and I think I can help because a couple of the areas have already been touched on there. But, just to say, I'd really welcome any further written correspondence to the committee, Chair, on the issues of how we can look at not simply the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Renewable energy generation in Wales - evidence session 1
Thank you, Chair. Chair, if you'll excuse me, I have a couple of points on this, because I think it's a really important issue. I'll declare that, in the 20 years that I've been an MP, my constituency in Ogmore has been one of the—well, it depends which way…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Renewable energy generation in Wales - evidence session 1
Sorry, Chair, it's not specifically to do with the grid point, but it's a point that Rob mentioned. I'm happy to delay it and come back in a moment if you want to.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Renewable energy generation in Wales - evidence session 1
Thanks.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Renewable energy generation in Wales - evidence session 1
Thank you, Chair. It's only a brief supplementary because I know we'll be going into a lot of detail further into this session. But one of the things we don't talk as much about nowadays is the issue of energy security, curiously, and the role that renewables…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Making Saint David's Day a bank holiday
Thank you for giving way, and I associate myself with the remarks you made in your opening remarks as well, as I'm sure we all do. Would he be interested to know that on 1 March 2016, a Bill was presented on the floor of Parliament by Mark Williams, who was…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Making Saint David's Day a bank holiday
Will the Minister give way?
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Subsidy Control Bill
Our first report expressed our concerns with the Bill. We consider that the subsidy control proposals could have—and we say this in our report—a pernicious impact on devolution and the exercise of devolved functions, particularly in ways that could limit the…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Subsidy Control Bill
Thank you, Llywydd. We have published two reports on the memorandum laid by the Welsh Government on the Subsidy Control Bill, the first in December and the second last week.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
In which case, that brings us now to the motion under item No. 9: under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting, so we can continue our business in private. Are we happy to move into private, colleagues? We are…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
That's brilliant. Thank you, Gareth. We'll return to that in private, then, if Members are happy.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
And then we have some papers to note under item 8. I'll go through these fairly quickly, and Members can shout out there if there's anything they want to pick up at this rather than when we get into private. So, first of all, we have correspondence from the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional Relations Agreement
That takes us on, then, to item No. 7—again, a familiar one for those who follow us either on our Senedd.tv or in the transcripts of this meeting. We turn our attention to the inter-institutional relations agreement, and the first aspect of this we're going…
, 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
Thank you for that. Any comments from Members, or are we happy to note that? We're happy to note. Thank you very much. Thank you, Gareth.
, 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
We'll go on to item No. 6, instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 that we have previously considered. The first of these is item 6.1, which is SL(6)148, the Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.7
And then we move on to item No. 5, which is instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.7. The first of these is a draft negative resolution instrument, SL(6)153, which is on the code of practice on the exercise of social services…
, 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. I think we'll be happy to note those points.
, 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. I think people watching in on this will note that, in our role as critical friend as legislation and regulations pass through, we don't just pick up when things are poor; we pick up when things are good as well and remark on those to…
