, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
We'll go on, then, to item 3, which, as normal, is instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. The first of these we have in front of us—we've got several here with us today—is item 3.1. It's made negative…
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Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
We're fully quorate, so we'll proceed straight to the first substantive item, which is item 2, instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. We have two items in this section, the first of which is a made negative resolution…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to this virtual meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. The meeting is being broadcast live on Senedd.tv and the Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. Apart from the usual procedural adaptations for conducting these…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome, everyone, and good afternoon.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd. Minister, in between the festivities over the recess, I spent the Christmas and the new year period visiting GP practices and community pharmacists throughout Ogmore and seeing first-hand—. And I thank them for the time they…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
Minister, unlike the Conservatives, I'm not crying crocodile tears about the lack of funding for arts and culture in Wales, when they will not will the means to actually provide that through the UK Treasury budget, and at the same time they decry every…
, Plenary
Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2024-25
The majority of our funding continues to come directly from the UK Government as a block grant. We cannot ignore the fact that if our budget, as has been pointed out by Carolyn a moment ago, had kept pace with the growth of the economy since 2010 we would…
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Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2024-25
There are never easy times in budgetary decision making and setting priorities, but these seem to be the most difficult and possibly the most painful in all of the devolution years. But it isn't just a devolution issue—far from it. If we look across the…
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Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2024-25
You make an interesting point, which you consistently make. But one thing I would ask you to reflect on, and for your thoughts on, is the track record of previous Labour Governments. Because the same applied when Gordon Brown came in in 1997 as the Treasury—…
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Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2024-25
Will you give way on that very point?
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Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2024-25
Would you give way?
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
This request has been raised before, but I make no apologies for raising it again, because it's an ongoing issue. I wonder if we could have a statement on the co-ordination of what's known as food waste, but it's actually food surplus, collection…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, I’ve had discussions with representatives from ColegauCymru, and I’m sure Luke has as well, and I thank him for the way he’s presented this question, cognisant of the real financial perils that we are currently in, which the First Minister has…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Item No. 9, then. We've got a little bit of business to take forward in private session, so, under Standing Order 17.42, can I ask if you're happy to exclude the public now for the remainder of the meeting? We are. We move into private please, and, Gareth…
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Motion to elect a temporary Chair, under Standing Order 17.22, for agenda item 11
Brilliant. Thank you very much. So, it all changes; the subs bench—we bring the whole subs bench on for that.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion to elect a temporary Chair, under Standing Order 17.22, for agenda item 11
Diolch, Sam. Adam, content to second that? Thank you, Adam. Brilliant. So, Alun, you're duly in charge for item 11. Thank you for taking charge of that. And just to confirm that also, for that particular part of the meeting, Luke Fletcher will be coming in to…
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Motion to elect a temporary Chair, under Standing Order 17.22, for agenda item 11
And item No. 8 is a slightly unusual one in the midst of a meeting, but it's one we have to do. It's a motion to elect a temporary Chair under Standing Order 17.22 for agenda item 11, which is later in private session. Just to explain, the reason we have this…
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Papers to note
However, he also states that any decision to report on provisional frameworks requires agreement across the four administrations, and the Northern Ireland Executive is, for obvious reasons, not currently in a position to provide this. He states that his…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Colleagues, we go on, then, to section 7, where we have papers to note. Again, by all means flag anything up as we go through these, but if not, I'll rattle through them so that we've got them firmly on record and what the main points of substance are. First…
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Inter-institutional relations agreement
Colleagues, in that case, with our thanks to our lawyers for their consideration over the Christmas period of these instruments coming forward, we're going to move on now to item 6. Beyond the instruments now, we're onto the notifications and correspondence…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
That's great. It's well worth raising that, and it falls in line with a lot of our consideration of other instruments and legislation that have come through. Thank you, Kate.
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
That brings us on to our last instrument to be considered today. This is under item 5, where we look at instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Orders 21.2 or 21.3 that we have previously considered on the committee. We have…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.7
Thank you very much. Are we happy to agree that? We are.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.7
We're going to move on to the section now of instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.7. The first of these—there is only one in this particular section—is item 4.1, SL(6)424, 'Separate Collection of Waste…
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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, Kate. Do you have any points, colleagues, or are we happy to agree that? We're happy to agree. Thank you, Kate. We'll move on to the next item, but don't leave us, Kate, because we still need you here.
