, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Good afternoon and welcome.
, Plenary
The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations 2021
I note and welcome the response we have received from the Welsh Government on these points. While we appreciate the overall context within which these changes to the law are drafted, I remind the Welsh Government respectfully that the information provided to…
, Plenary
The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations 2021
I also thank my committee colleagues for their diligent scrutiny. We've noted what will now be familiar points in relation to the instrument's potential interference with human rights and the lack of formal consultation. We also noticed that there was no…
, Plenary
The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations 2021
Thank you very much, Llywydd. We considered these regulations at our meeting yesterday, and laid our report immediately afterwards to inform this afternoon's debate. I thank the committee's legal advisers for turning around their analysis so swiftly.
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Professional Qualifications Bill
It is vital that the Senedd pays close attention to their combined impact and can continue to play a full part in safeguarding Wales's best interests in the face of these new arrangements. Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd.
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Professional Qualifications Bill
In our report on the Welsh Government’s consent memorandum for the Professional Qualifications Bill, we have identified trends that are, unfortunately, already emerging quite early within this Senedd, and we've made nine recommendations to the Minister, and…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Professional Qualifications Bill
Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. Last week, I spoke to our committee’s report during the debate on whether this Senedd should give consent to the Environment Bill. This week, we’re discussing consent for the Professional Qualifications Bill, and…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Could I ask for a debate, rather than a statement, on the availability of free banking for charities and community groups? Unfortunately, HSBC is the latest of the banks to take the money and run, and they'll be introducing charges for the Women's Institute…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
And then, we're now going to move to private session, and as I always explain to anybody who watches this on recording, what we do now as a committee is go into private session to deal with some of those items of correspondence we've just dealt with, but also…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Okay. That brings us on, then, to item 3, which is, as normal, the papers to note. There are some interesting papers here that we have in front of us. Some of them are straightforward and some I think we might want to return to in private session, so I'll…
, 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 great, thank you very much for that. That's wonderful. So, if I could just flag one point that I missed earlier on when we were looking at item 2.3, I forgot to mention that the Plenary debate in respect of SL(6)050, the Allocation of Housing and…
, 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. If Members haven't seen it, that was a piece of supplementary information that came through this morning, or within the last couple of hours, which has been circulated to Members. I think it'll be of great—. It helps us in terms of our…
, 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. So, we've had the explanation, the response there. Are committee members happy to agree the reporting points? Thank you very much. Okay, we move on to, then, item 2.4, which is SL(6)053, the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No…
, 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 for that. Could I ask committee members—are you happy to agree the reporting points? Yes. Okay. Thank you very much for that. Thank you, Gareth. We'll go on to, then—. We go on next to the affirmative resolution instruments under item 2.3. And…
, 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 for that, Gareth, and for people watching in who might be curious as to why we're doing these retrospectively, that is what we do when we're dealing with these particular pieces of legislation, and we then make sure that they're properly…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Which brings us very neatly to the first substantive item—that's item No. 2. And these are—. We begin with instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. And we've got some made negative resolution…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
And if you do, we'll definitely have you back for more. So, if I could just ask Members to ensure that all your mobile devices are switched to silent. We're operating through both Welsh and English today, and interpretation is available during this…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Prynhawn da, good afternoon, a chroeso i chi i gyd—welcome to you all to this session today of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. Welcome to those who are tuning in to this, either live or on recording. As per normal, we're on Senedd.tv, and…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW)
Thank you, Chair.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW)
Okay. Well, simply in taking forward your role, if you are appointed—as the Chair has rightly said, if you are finally appointed, a lot of the theme of our discussion today has been joining up the issues of the climate change challenge, the nature challenge…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW)
Okay. In which case, could I ask you what your thoughts are on one in particular? And, Chair, I'd better declare my interest here as the salmon champion—the biodiversity link champion for salmon. I'm not a fisherman, by the way, but I'm very interested in the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW)
Thank you, Chair. And in looking forward to those priorities and the discussions you'll be having, you'll also be looking backwards to the priorities for potential future work that was outlined by the previous commission in their 2020 report. Have you had…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW)
Very good. Thank you very much.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW)
Okay. That's helpful. Thank you for that. I know, being new in the position, as well, you'll want to set out and scope the landscape first of all. One of the issues I wanted to ask on is that the Deputy Minister has made clear that he thinks there needs to be…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW)
Thank you, Chair. Even though you're only three weeks into the job, you've just given us a significant steer on your approach there, where you start by thinking, 'Well, do we need this infrastructure or not?' Now, that's quite a statement, I have to say—a…
