9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 3: marine planning and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Thank you, Chair. Chair, I know that Janet wanted to come in, I think, on this as well.
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 3: marine planning and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Thanks for that. We'll go to Clare—Clare's got her hand up as well. Could I ask you also to deal with the question, Clare, of what is a marine plan and subsequent tiers underneath it of spatial planning—what's the purpose of it? Is it to enable sustainable…
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 3: marine planning and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Good morning, everybody. Can I start by asking what might seem a strange but obvious question, which is: what is your view on why we need marine planning, spatial planning? And what would be your ambitions for marine planning in Welsh…
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
But that contribution of itself might be tiny, but it's not insignificant when you pool it alongside other developers and other sectors.
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Thank you. I mean, really interesting answers, and as you say, the maps and the spatial planning are only as good as the data that underpins them, and we're a million miles away from having that right system that can provide that data. It cannot all rely on…
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
—proper marine planning.
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Certainty, clarity, spatial planning—
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
—the climate change crisis. The planning system, whatever we put in place, and it is early days in the marine environment, needs to actually achieve net biodiversity benefit, not just stasis. Now, would you agree with that? And, if so, from a developer's…
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
I guess the question is, Chair: if not SRAs as part of marine spatial planning, then what? If I can put back to you and maybe to Jess, the environmental organisations out there push very heavily now on the basis of the biodiversity crisis, as well as—
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Yes, David, I'm just interested in your comment there, which you passed over fairly quickly, on the strategic resource areas. I picked up from your facial expression then some reservation about it. What's the issue here?
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Sorry, Chair. I wonder whether I could extend Delyth's question further, then. Based on what you've said about Scotland—and bear in mind, I'm impartial; I'm genuinely coming at this from an unbiased view in my putting this question—would it be of advantage to…
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Chair?
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Yes. If I can ask the corollary to Delyth's question: is there anything in the current structure of the Crown Estate within Wales that causes difficulty and challenge for you, or are they an energetic partner in taking forward consenting?
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
But you agree with us, with Joyce, with the line of questioning, that if you fail to complete this final stage of it, then all the work you've done is wasted.
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
And that was exactly my short question: can you just tell us where you are seeking those resources from and can we be of any help?
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Sorry, Delyth. So, in the absence of data and in the absence of the green light for additional funding to get that data and to have the analysis and the analysts—the marine science analysts on the ground—would it be NRW's approach not to consent because that…
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Thanks, Delyth. I just wanted to ask, because this flags up some major concerns, obviously, in terms of the drive towards sustainable exploitation through marine renewables and so on, which is accelerating at a pace, the gaps in data we already know and the…
8 December 2021 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Food poverty
Population growth? [Members of the Senedd: 'Oh.'] Unbelievable.
8 December 2021 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Food poverty
Just tell us. Just tell us why.
8 December 2021 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Food poverty
Could you simply explain to me, who has seen the rise in foodbanks—? And I commend the volunteers and the people who donate, I really do. But could you just explain to me and my constituents why those crisis moments have exponentially exploded since 2010?
8 December 2021 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Food poverty
Would you give way on that?
8 December 2021 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Food poverty
I speak in support of the main motion, backing the right to food. The right to food was set out in the United Nations international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights, which the UK Government ratified way back in 1976, and it says: 'The right to…
6 December 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting and from Item 1 of the meeting on 13 December 2021
In which case, that brings us to item No. 10, which is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting and, for anybody watching in, from item No. 1 of the meeting on 13 December, which will be taken in…
6 December 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
And then we have several papers to note. Item 9.1 in your pack is correspondence from the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee of the Scottish Parliament in respect of the inquiry into the use of the made affirmative procedure during the coronavirus…
6 December 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
We also have, under item No. 8, the inter-institutional relations agreement, and we note with that the letter from the First Minister that notified the committee of a meeting of the British-Irish Council that took place on 19 November. And just to note, the…
