, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the cost-of-living crisis: evidence session 4
Some of our other witnesses, two weeks ago, talked about the 'new poor' joining the people who'd always been poor and this cost-of-living crisis is the latest challenge being thrown at them—that there was a new set of people who were feeling almost like a…
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Debt and the cost-of-living crisis: evidence session 4
I'd now like to welcome Susan Lloyd-Selby, who's the lead for Wales of the Trussell Trust network. Thank you very much indeed, Susan, for joining us. I just wondered if I could ask you the first question. I'm just going to get my notes. Could you just tell us…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
I'm also a member of the Bevan Foundation—recently reinstated—and I'm also a member of the Cardiff and Vale Credit Union. Are there any other declarations? I don't see any. Moving on, this is a bilingual meeting and simultaneous translation is available from…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Bore da, bawb. Welcome to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. We are continuing our inquiry into the impact of debt post the pandemic. We have had no apologies for today. All Members are present. Are there any declarations of interest? Sarah.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
I'll hand back to the Chair.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Perhaps you could just write to us with the numbers of organisations who took part in your diversity conference.
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
I appreciate that, in professional sport, ruthless decisions have to be made about putting forward the best team because winning is everything, but in community sport surely it's just as important to take part as to win, and therefore here it's much more…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
You personally have probably the strongest reputation in the sporting world for your work on inclusivity. How do you think you can use your personal reputation to encourage sport governing bodies to really now examine their processes and put their house in…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Just as you've mentioned selection, clearly that could be a way of demonstrating racism or sexism, depending on context, but obviously it could just be somebody who's not able to accept that somebody else is better than them, and sport is a competitive…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Given the damage to the WRU's reputation, and indeed the reputation of Wales, I just wondered whether Sport Wales had received reports about or allegations of inappropriate behaviour within other sports governing bodies in the last five years, and whether in…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Okay.
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Okay. Five months to get their act together before the whole thing blew up in their face.
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
You were giving them nearly five months to actually do something about the—
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
So, what did Sport Wales do after the failure to pass those new regulations in October?
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Okay, but if this hearsay had any cause for concern, clearly I understand you're not responsible for the professional rugby board, but were you not curious to make sure that whatever allegations were going around about the culture in the professional game…
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
As an organisation.
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Wales is a pretty small country. Everybody knows everybody in the sports world, I would imagine. So, when somebody as senior and high profile as Amanda Blanc resigned unexpectedly and there's hearsay knocking around, weren't you curious to find out whether…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: The Roads Review and National Transport Delivery Plan
—on the buses, because they are clogged up in the congestion created by cars, which is an absolutely vicious circle, and I wondered how we can make serious and rapid progress on that in order to make rapid progress there.
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: The Roads Review and National Transport Delivery Plan
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Thank you, Deputy Minister, for commissioning this roads review, which is going to help us align our net-zero obligations with our transport strategy, and it's clear that there's still quite a lot of work to do to ensure…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(vi) and (ix) to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Could we agree under Standing Order 17.42 to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting?
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Papers to note
We now have some papers to note, two bits of correspondence. Can we agree to note these two?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 3
Thank you very much. Thank you very much to both of you for your evidence. Obviously, some of the ground we've covered relates to the Welsh Government's relationship with the UK Government and how we could have a more agile benefits system to encourage more…
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Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 3
Thank you. That's very useful information. Did you have any other questions, Sioned? No. Thank you. Just before you go, Nicola, I just wanted to ask you the same question that I asked Karen earlier, which is around where the civil enforcement industry is…
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Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 3
Thank you. Sioned Williams.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 3
Thank you. Okay. We're moving on to the really thorny subject of energy and the rising cost of living. Jane Dodds.
