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New Petitions
Thank you, Chair. Obviously, I declare an interest here in the sense that, being an RCT councillor—I just want to refer to something—I used to sit on the Welsh language steering committee there, and this caused no end of debate there, because what we were…
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New Petitions
Thank you, Chair, and it was just to touch upon what Luke said. I'm cynical maybe, but the thing that stuck out with me is that it says in the petition text, 'We believe parachuting of candidates from outside of Wales, into the Senedd, undermines the quality…
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New Petitions
Yes, thank you, Chair. I'm conscious you mentioned the two of them being linked together, with the next petition. I'll be honest, I don't particularly like petitions like this, because I've never felt that where someone lives determines how good you are as an…
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Evidence Session - P-06-1224 Design a 'Care Leavers Plus' Universal Basic Income pilot that includes a range of people
So they would have to open up their own individual bank account.
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Evidence Session - P-06-1224 Design a 'Care Leavers Plus' Universal Basic Income pilot that includes a range of people
Yes. Thank you, Chair. It was just to touch upon that, really, and obviously I was thinking about it when Jonathan was answering, as he mentioned there the hope that UBI would help women escape abusive partnerships. How would that come down, in the sense of—?…
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Evidence Session - P-06-1224 Design a 'Care Leavers Plus' Universal Basic Income pilot that includes a range of people
Thank you, Chair. It was just to touch upon what Jonathan said, because I know he specifically referenced the Finnish trial there. Now, I was under the impression, from reading the reports there, that it was considered sort of a failure in Finland, because it…
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Evidence Session - P-06-1224 Design a 'Care Leavers Plus' Universal Basic Income pilot that includes a range of people
Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Jonathan, for attending today's Petition's Committee. I just wanted to quickly ask you a brief question, because I know last month there was the Welsh affairs select committee, and part of that was Charlotte Pickles, who is…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Spiking
I'd like to start by thanking my colleagues for all the valid and important points they've raised so far in this debate, and to pay tribute to my colleague Joyce for raising her own personal experience. The issue of spiking drinks in pubs and nightclubs has…
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 19) Regulations 2021
Thank you for allowing the intervention. I wanted to intervene mainly because you mentioned in your argument—you phrased it as selfishness, the nature of it, why we're opposing that. I'm opposed to these proposals, but ultimately if they go through it's a…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Wales and Africa
Thank you, Minister, for your statement. It's great to see that the Wales and Africa programme continues to benefit some of the poorest nations in the world, and that another round of small-scale funding has been launched. This has been a crucial source of…
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Further discussion on the signature threshold
Thank you, Chair. I agree with what Luke said, really. I think the key thing is to get that balance where you're not necessarily stifling debate or stifling access to democracy, but I think a 250 threshold would be a suitable number, really. I note from the…
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Updates to previous petitions
Thank you, Chair. I suppose the only route that's left for the committee now is to close the petition, but one of the things I'd just like to highlight is that we see a number of these, where people have petitioned to save certain buildings, and it would be…
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Updates to previous petitions
Yes, thank you, Chair. I agree with that, and I think it would be a good idea to write to the HCE for an update on discussions on a permanent home for the archive, but also whether or not we could seek clarification if they've ever tried previously to look…
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Updates to previous petitions
No, no comments.
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Updates to previous petitions
Thank you, Chair. Just as before, I know the petitioner. If I'm honest, I think this idea is quite innovative and I think it would have been good if we were able to do something to see it come through, but I think I met with McDonald's a couple of weeks ago…
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Updates to previous petitions
Thank you, Chair. Unfortunately—. It's quite a serious and emotive issue, but unfortunately I don't know what more we could do now as a committee. I note from the report that it's been discussed quite a few times in the Senedd Chamber now, and even if we were…
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Updates to previous petitions
I am.
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New Petitions
Thank you, Chair. I know the petitioner, in the sense that I held an informal unpaid carers forum a couple of weeks ago, and Mike was the main instigator of that, really, to help with setting that up. I agree with the purpose of the petition, to be fair, in…
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New Petitions
Thank you, Chair. I believe I was contacted by the individual at the start of the term, and we did a little bit of digging in to this as well. I'm not 100 per cent certain now of the response, but I think the response we had was that this doesn't happen in…
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New Petitions
Thank you, Chair. Just for transparency purposes, just to say, as you know, I'm a member of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation. I agree with Luke about writing to the RSPB about this, but I was wondering whether or not there is scope for us…
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New Petitions
Yes.
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New Petitions
Thank you, Chair. Just for the record, I've been contacted by the petitioner about this issue, and I've been helping him and the family. I note from the report that there's a possibility of maybe the committee meeting with him and his family to discuss this…
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New Petitions
Thank you, Chair. I’ve got some experience of this with my council hat on. We’ve got a number of estates that the council haven’t adopted and so the original developers have set up a management committee. In those instances it’s not that the council refuse—…
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New Petitions
Yes.
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New Petitions
With that in mind, I know that we’ve held petitions open until the outcome of things that we’ve been waiting for. Could this be another one where we just wait to see what the commission comes back with? Or do you think it would just be too long to wait?
