19 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
If I can do the normal and just ask Members to make sure that their mobile devices are switched to silent. We're operating through Welsh and English today and we have the normal interpretation available and, of course, the sound operator will help with the…
19 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome, everybody, to this afternoon's meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. We're going into public session this afternoon for our first week back after the recess. As per normal, we're in a virtual setting here today, and we're…
19 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome, everyone, and good afternoon.
7 February 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The health service
Let me begin by saying that, in recent months and, indeed, in recent years, I've seen the NHS at its very best and its very worst. I've seen the individual stories where I, like others, have had to contact the hospital, contact the health board, contact…
7 February 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Housing supply
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'll conclude by saying we need all sorts of models within the housing market, but I think we should be doing more—and you'd expect me to say this—on the co-operative and community-led models, because I think that can disrupt and…
7 February 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Housing supply
Can I begin my contribution, and I welcome this debate thoroughly, just by noting the £3.5 million of funding that was announced towards the end of last year for the Ewenny Road brownfield site? It's massive remediation. It's been empty for 10 years since the…
7 February 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Housing supply
One of the other things that happened under the late Baroness Lady Thatcher's tenure, of course, was the sell-off of council housing without actually replacing it. How does she now reflect on that, when it actually destroyed, decimated the affordable housing…
7 February 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Housing supply
Would you give way on that?
7 February 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
Thank you, Minister. I attended last Saturday the amazing production by Bridgend Youth Theatre of We Will Rock You in the Grand Pavilion Porthcawl in the constituency of my friend Sarah Murphy MS. After the standing ovation for those talented youngsters…
7 February 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
3. What engagement has the Minister had with Bridgend County Borough Council on the regeneration of cultural venues? OQ60643
6 February 2024 , Plenary
& 9. The general principles of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill
I thank my committee members and the clerks for their diligent scrutiny, as always. We came to two conclusions in our report and made 16 recommendations, some of which the Counsel General has touched on today. Can I just begin by thanking, as well, the…
6 February 2024 , Plenary
& 9. The general principles of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. I welcome the opportunity to participate in this debate on the general principles of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill.
6 February 2024 , Plenary
Debate: The Steel Industry in Wales
I will not repeat what I've said before on this matter in this Siambr. But I thank my neighbour and my friend David Rees for his continued and passionate championing of steel, including in the speech he made today, in which I and others are pleased to join…
6 February 2024 , Plenary
Debate: The Draft Budget 2024-25
Would you give the evidence—[Inaudible.]
6 February 2024 , Plenary
Debate: The Draft Budget 2024-25
I just want to clarify—we're all extremely concerned about things such as human trafficking and money laundering. You've just categorised, you've just specified, a series of business sectors, entrepreneurs, some of them, and classified them all as fraudulent…
6 February 2024 , Plenary
Debate: The Draft Budget 2024-25
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd, and I'm very glad, in my capacity as Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee, to contribute to this debate, following the contributions by other Members and indeed by other committee Chairs as well. I thank, as…
6 February 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister, and we're looking forward to having that bus Bill in front of us, because one of the greatest frustrations for us as representatives, but also for local people, is that they have no real say over where the routes run and at what…
6 February 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
2. What measures will the First Minister take to give greater influence over bus services to the people of Wales? OQ60642
5 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
So, on that basis, colleagues, if I can turn to item No. 9, which is to seek your permission under Standing Order 17.42 to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting so we can go into private. Are we happy to do that? We are. And we’ll go into…
5 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
We’ll go on, then, to the papers to note. Now, we’ve got several papers, but if I could suggest we take three items together for convenience, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3, because they are related. Within these items, we note the correspondence from the Counsel General…
5 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
So, we’ll move ahead, then, to item No. 7, which are notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement, and the first item on this section is item 7.1, where we have for us to note the correspondence with the Minister for…
5 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.7—previously considered
That’s good—good to hear. Okay, thank you very much.
5 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.7—previously considered
And then we move on to item No. 6, which is instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.7, which we have previously considered. We have one item here under item 6.1, SL(6)435, Part 8 code of practice on the role of…
5 February 2024 , 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
Diolch. We will turn now to the final—I said there were a couple; there are more than a couple—the final item in this section, item 5.3, which is SL(6)444, the Independent Schools (Prohibition on Participation in Management) (Wales) Regulations 2024. Again…
5 February 2024 , 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
I don't think we have a set time frame, although what we have done in the past is to seek clarification from the Ministers as to when the next available opportunity will be, and then make that transparent to the Senedd as well, so that they can make a…
