, Plenary
Supplementary Legislative Consent Motion on the Environment Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. As the Minister has outlined, this debate follows on from the Senedd's decision at the end of December to consent to the UK Government's Environment Bill. We considered the supplementary memorandum and the correspondence related to it at our…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Net-zero Strategy
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Diolch and good afternoon, Minister. I fully welcome the statement today, particularly on the back of the launch of the Wales net-zero strategy. As you've said, it's a live document, but it shows a really high level of ambition, and it…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on COVID-19
First of all, could I ask the Minister to pass on my thanks to Transport for Wales and transport police in south Wales for a very effective response to my raising concerns about the decreasing use of face masks on local journeys by rail from Ogmore into…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
I ask committee members, if they're happy, then, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting so we can move into private session. Are we content? We are. Thank you very much. And we'll just pause…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
That's the only item under that particular issue of statutory instruments today, but we have several papers to note under item No. 4. Most of them are to note and we might be able to return to them as needed in private session. The first one is item 4.1…
, 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 brilliant. Thank you, Aled. That was extensive and in quite some detail. Are we happy to note and agree that report? We are. Thank you very much.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Okay, there we are; thank you, colleagues. We'll move on now through the next item of our public session today, now that Sir Wyn and colleague have departed. We're going to move on to item 3, instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the President of Welsh Tribunals—Third Annual Report
There we are. We will give you a couple of moments, both of you, to virtually leave the room, and then we'll recommence our public part. Thank you—diolch yn fawr.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the President of Welsh Tribunals—Third Annual Report
Thank you very much. Look, thank you so much for taking the time and sparing us a couple of extra minutes. They often say in hill walking that you've got to watch for those last few steps down the hill, because those are the ones you trip up on, but I think…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the President of Welsh Tribunals—Third Annual Report
Well, Sir Wyn, we've actually—thank you, Rhys—run out of time. So, it places me in the invidious position of either—we wanted to ask you a little bit about next steps, but we're happy to write to you about how we take this forward, unless you've got any brief…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the President of Welsh Tribunals—Third Annual Report
Thank you, Alun, and thank you, Sir Wyn. I think we've gone into quite some depth on that now and, as Alun says, we want to cover some other areas as well. So, we're going to go on now. Rhys, if you'd like to take us on, please.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the President of Welsh Tribunals—Third Annual Report
Thank you very much, Peter. Peter's gone quite deep there, Sir Wyn, into this, but it's such an important area. Please excuse us if we continue on this vein for a moment, because your thoughts going forward are important. So, we're going to turn to Alun…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the President of Welsh Tribunals—Third Annual Report
We'd really appreciate that, thank you. Thank you, Sir Wyn. I'm going to pass now on to my colleague Peter Fox, who’s going to dive a bit deeper into some of the areas you were touching.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the President of Welsh Tribunals—Third Annual Report
It would be fascinating, if there's anything else that comes to light on the reasons behind that, albeit, as you say, in a couple of the areas, it's picking back up again, but—
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the President of Welsh Tribunals—Third Annual Report
Thank you, Sir Wyn, that's a really, I think, frank and honest appraisal of the administrative necessities balanced against the access to justice. I think my colleague Peter Fox will pick this up further in a moment. I just have one further question in this…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the President of Welsh Tribunals—Third Annual Report
Thank you. That's really helpful. Let me just turn to a couple of final questions before I move on to colleagues, which are to do with access to justice and particularly that issue of the last 12 months or 18 months with the pandemic. We know that there has…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the President of Welsh Tribunals—Third Annual Report
You've given some really useful pointers there, even though you've laid out that many of these decisions are outwith your control. But you've set a clear direction there, which is really helpful. Before we turn to a couple of issues around access to justice…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the President of Welsh Tribunals—Third Annual Report
That's a really helpful initial set of reflections already. We'll return to some of those areas that you've touched on in a few moments. I wonder if I could just ask you: you've accepted the extension to your term of appointment, what's the rationale behind…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the President of Welsh Tribunals—Third Annual Report
Thank you, Sir Wyn. We appreciate that. Let me begin, just by way of opening, by asking you to reflect a little on your tenure as the first president of Welsh Tribunals. Looking back on it—not just the last year, but the whole scope of it—how have things…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the President of Welsh Tribunals—Third Annual Report
Now, we've got quite a busy session ahead of us, both in public and private today, and in our public session we begin with an evidence session with the president of Welsh Tribunals. We do this on the back of the Welsh tribunals' third annual report as well…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Prynhawn da, bawb. Good afternoon, everybody. Croeso i chi i gyd. Welcome this afternoon to this virtual meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. As normal, the meeting is being broadcast live on Senedd.tv, and the Record of Proceedings…
, Plenary
Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Constitutional Commission
So, we therefore look forward, in the spirit of building consensus, to engaging constructively with the commission and with the Welsh Government to ensure that our constitutional arrangements are fit for purpose. Thank you very much, Llywydd.
, Plenary
Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Constitutional Commission
Our predecessor committee's legacy report highlighted many issues that will be relevant to the work of the commission. It drew attention to the operation and the effectiveness of the Sewel convention and indeed the tensions that have existed between…
, Plenary
Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Constitutional Commission
Thank you very much, Llywydd, and thank you, Minister. Constitutional matters are at the heart of our committee's remit, and having questioned the Counsel General briefly about his plans for a constitutional commission in September, today's announcement is of…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
And with apologies to the public who may have tuned in to this today, we're now going to, with the will of the committee, go into private session to discuss some other reports in front of us, which will then, of course, come onto the public agenda next week…
