, 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 excellent. Thank you, Gareth. Any comments? Are we happy to agree that reporting point? We are. Thank you very much. We move on, then, to made affirmative resolution instruments. Under item 3.7, we have SL(6)138, the Non-Domestic Rating (Multiplier)…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Okay. Thank you. So, all seems satisfactory there. Are we happy to agree that as a reporting point? Thank you, Gareth. We move on to item 3.6, SL(6)144, the Corporate Joint Committees (Transport Functions) (Consequential Modifications and Transitional…
, 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. In that case, colleagues, are we happy to agree that? We are. Thank you. Which brings us, then, to affirmative resolution instruments. We'll start with item 3.5, which is SL(6)142, the Plant Health etc. (Fees) (Amendment) (Wales) (EU…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
With those points, then, I'm assuming, colleagues, that we're happy to agree that report. Thank you. Item 3.4, SL(6)147, the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2022. These came into effect from 6 a.m…
, 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. With that being the correct way to proceed, are we happy to agree those reporting points? We are. That brings us to item 3.3. Again, we're very familiar with these, as they come through this committee every time. It's SL(6)145, the Health…
, 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. It's good to note when we have a clear and lucid explanation that backs up those assessments, so thank you for that, Gareth. We don't only make critical points when things aren't quite what we'd expect; we do note when they are good as…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
We go on to item 3 quite swiftly, which are instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under the same Standing Orders, 21.2 or 21.3. The first of these is a made negative resolution instrument under item 3.1. It's SL(6)140, the Education…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
As per normal, the first things we turn to are any instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. We have under these an affirmative resolution instrument under item 2.1, which is SL(6)143, the South East Wales Corporate Joint…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Welcome to this virtual meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. The normal reminders: we're broadcasting the meeting on Senedd.tv, and the Record of Proceedings will be published as usual after our committee deliberations this…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Good afternoon and welcome, everyone. Welcome to this committee meeting.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Water quality and sewage discharges - evidence session 2
Thank you, Chair. Look, that's a really interesting pointer for us as a committee, and I think we do recognise, when you look at this fairly, this is not entirely or even primarily able to be fixed by the water companies alone. We absolutely get that. There's…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Water quality and sewage discharges - evidence session 2
Chair, do I have time for one short follow-up?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Water quality and sewage discharges - evidence session 2
Thanks, Janet, for that. Well, look, in that case, let me ask what I asked in the previous panel. I think it's the right way forward, the idea of stakeholder engagement and bringing forward some really good, intelligent, well-worked plans that work from the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Water quality and sewage discharges - evidence session 2
Okay. Well, look, Chair, I know somebody—. I think one of my colleagues wants to come in on this area as well, and it may be to do with that issue, to do with the stakeholder engagement in some of the plans going forward on these water basins and how far we…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Water quality and sewage discharges - evidence session 2
Well, look, before I bring the others in, I really welcome that response, the positivity around it, and perhaps, before bringing the others in, can I expand this to suggest that one way to take this forward, not least for the cost of the monitoring, is (1)…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Water quality and sewage discharges - evidence session 2
Thank you, Chair. Let me come back to Steve first of all, because you were very frank there on the challenges, but also seemed to be optimistic about some more opportunities in terms of data. So, before I turn to the CSO monitoring, which there's been massive…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Water quality and sewage discharges - evidence session 2
Chair, I'm happy to wait, don't worry.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Water quality and sewage discharges - evidence session 2
Yes, thank you, Chair. Steve, I wonder if I can ask you to go a bit further on this. Natural capital accounting has been around for at least two decades. Fifteen years ago I was sitting down with people like Dieter Helm, talking through this and how this…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Water quality and sewage discharges - evidence session 1
Okay. Just very briefly, we'd like, as a committee, an update on when we're going to see publication on the next round of river basin management plans. That's fairly straightforward as an answer. But can I just ask you: what do you feel is the state of play…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Water quality and sewage discharges - evidence session 1
Chair, we're over time, but do I have time for just a short one to finish off here on the river basin management plans?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Water quality and sewage discharges - evidence session 1
Can I just flag, before Mark answers and tails off there, that if we do this—? Because, Siân, what you're saying there gives me some cause for optimism that this is on the table being looked at, being explored, how much further we can go with data, with…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Water quality and sewage discharges - evidence session 1
Mark and Siân, when you come back, I wonder if you could deal with those two things that flow from David's comments there. One is how much further we can go on data monitoring, not just with CSOs, but generally in terms of river pollution and also the wider…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Water quality and sewage discharges - evidence session 1
Thank you, Chair, and I hope my broadband stays up. I'm going to rattle through some areas, but I really want to get into some detail on this. In fact, one of them flows from the comments David has just made. We know that there's been a massive increase in…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Water quality and sewage discharges - evidence session 1
Chair, if you're happy, that's fine. I'll return to this later if we've got time.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Water quality and sewage discharges - evidence session 1
Okay. Sorry, Chair. It's a very poor connection. I'm hoping that you can hear me as I ask this question. I just want to push a little bit further on this. The issue of at what point you actually take action on lower-level incidents—so-called lower-level…
