, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with environmental organisations
Okay. Could a costs incurred and income forgone payment methodology have unintended consequences for the environment—for example, if farmers do less to gain more income, as the payments are based on average values?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with environmental organisations
The farming unions are calling for a delay to the scheme until it provides the same level of stability to agri-food businesses as the current support. What would the implication of delaying this be, do you feel?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with environmental organisations
NFFN says many farmers are already delivering more for nature than the universal actions will support and will be disadvantaged by the delayed access to the optional and collaborative layers. The Welsh Government say interim schemes will continue ahead of…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with environmental organisations
Thank you, Chair. TFA Cymru is concerned that there is too strong an emphasis on stocking levels as opposed to grazing management, and that mixed grazing systems will assist in the delivery of both landscape and biodiversity within these important habitats…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with farming representatives
Wales Environment Link members would like to see the optional and collaborative layers of the scheme introduced within 12 months of the scheme launching, with information on payment rates for these published as soon as possible. It hopes this would then…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with farming representatives
Thanks, Chair. Welsh Government officials have said that less emphasis has been put on the optional and collaborative layers in a recent consultation to take account of farmers' concerns that there is too much change. These actions will be developed and…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with farming representatives
Yes, thank you. So, moving away from tree planting, what actions do you want to see in a scheme that would help achieve net zero and the 30x30 biodiversity targets, but whilst maintaining your own productive capacity?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with farming representatives
Great, thank you. And thanks for your honesty and frankness, because that's what we need in this committee. So, NFU Cymru, you have said the universal baseline payment must go beyond costs incurred, income forgone and incentivise the proposed actions. How…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with farming representatives
Yes, I'll just come back on those comments. For me, I feel that whilst this inquiry now that we're doing is more about the sustainable farming scheme, I feel this did trigger, certainly from the nitrate vulnerable zones, and then of course the bovine TB, and…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with farming representatives
Good morning and welcome. We know that the Welsh Government has been consulting on this scheme for years, and has carried out co-design exercises and has pulled together some specialist working groups. We know, as politicians, that the farmers are not happy…
, Plenary
Debate on petition P-06-1367, 'Fund the removal of quarry rocks and the restoration of sand and groynes to Llandudno North Shore'
The figures I've been given by the head of ERF are just under £10 million for the current scheme, and it's £19 million published in the scheme. So, that is not 14 times more. We're talking double.
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Debate on petition P-06-1367, 'Fund the removal of quarry rocks and the restoration of sand and groynes to Llandudno North Shore'
Point of order.
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Debate on petition P-06-1367, 'Fund the removal of quarry rocks and the restoration of sand and groynes to Llandudno North Shore'
You should have been there when the lorries were there, dumping.
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Debate on petition P-06-1367, 'Fund the removal of quarry rocks and the restoration of sand and groynes to Llandudno North Shore'
Oh, yes they did.
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Debate on petition P-06-1367, 'Fund the removal of quarry rocks and the restoration of sand and groynes to Llandudno North Shore'
The Naples of the north.
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Debate on petition P-06-1367, 'Fund the removal of quarry rocks and the restoration of sand and groynes to Llandudno North Shore'
In standing, I wish to thank the Chairman, Jack Sargeant MS, and Members of the Petitions Committee, and to include Rhys ab Owen MS and Joel James MS for speaking up on this, helping it to come to Plenary. I do feel very passionate about this issue. Indeed…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you. So, the shortage of specialty positions for our doctors is causing us to lose valuable and committed professionals to other health boards across the UK and, more concerning, to overseas destinations, such as America and Australia. More doctors are…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
8. How is the Minister addressing the rising competition for medical specialty training in Wales, given the fixed number of training posts and the rising number of graduating doctors? OQ60862
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Minister. I'm really proud, because I'm the harbour porpoise champion in Wales. Three sites off the coast of Wales and south-west England have been identified as important areas for these sea mammals. They have a combined area of 16,477 km, with…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
8. What measures is the Welsh Government taking to monitor and protect harbour porpoises from threats such as entanglement in fishing nets, chemical and noise pollution, hunting, boat traffic, and lack of food? OQ60865
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
As a result of the climatic changes and inclement weather, we've seen in the Conwy valley, in the year to December 2023, 178 trains cancelled. Out of the cancellations, 36 were due to unit shortages, while the other 142 were due to flooding. The A470 trunk…
, Plenary
Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Andrew R.T. Davies.
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Group 9: Part 8—Supplementary functions: Infrastructure policy statements (Amendment 20)
Yes. I'll move. And I'll take this opportunity, because I obviously don't know what's going to happen with the Cabinet, to thank you, Minister. We've worked on some interesting legislation coming forward, and it's really good when we can work cross-party like…
, Plenary
Group 9: Part 8—Supplementary functions: Infrastructure policy statements (Amendment 20)
I would like to thank the Minister, nevertheless, for her co-operation on this amendment. Where Welsh Ministers publish a new infrastructure policy statement under section 125, Senedd Members must be notified. As the Minister said in Stage 2, 'I agree the…
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Group 8: Part 6—Infrastructure Consent Orders (Amendments 31, 17, 18, 19, 3, 2)
Move.
