, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Papers to note
So, item 4 is papers to note. So, they have been circulated to Members in advance of the meeting and are in your packs. Is everybody content to agree the papers to note? Lovely. I don't see any dissent.
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Wildfire resilience in Wales - evidence session with local authorities and Natural Resources Wales
I think in some areas that may be possible. In others, it's not. Because the people who've taken over those areas, certainly in Gower, a lot of them are holiday lets now, a lot of them have just gone beyond even local people being able to live in these…
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Wildfire resilience in Wales - evidence session with local authorities and Natural Resources Wales
The suggestion was given that, possibly, the people that had taken on those commoners' rights, maybe some unknowingly, who have acres of land, would allow the land to be used, because the animals would need to be taken off the common if and when something…
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Wildfire resilience in Wales - evidence session with local authorities and Natural Resources Wales
Okay. The issue is, obviously, as we're saying, the need to have more and varied animals on higher levels—the horses, the cattle, and the sheep, all doing slightly different jobs—getting rid of the bracken naturally. To do that, I think the point has already…
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Wildfire resilience in Wales - evidence session with local authorities and Natural Resources Wales
I think I'll question you a little bit on that. I'm not sure if you are aware of what's happening in Gower.
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Wildfire resilience in Wales - evidence session with local authorities and Natural Resources Wales
No, that's fine.
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Wildfire resilience in Wales - evidence session with local authorities and Natural Resources Wales
I was fortunate enough to speak to one of your colleagues a few months ago, probably just before the worst of all this happened, and I'd actually managed to speak to him on one particular issue, which was completely the total opposite of where we are now, in…
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Wildfire resilience in Wales - evidence session with the Fire Brigades Union
No, I understand. Okay, thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Wildfire resilience in Wales - evidence session with the Fire Brigades Union
I totally agree that there is an immediate issue that needs to be looked at, but obviously there needs to be a much longer term solution as well. Would that fit in? Is it something that you noticed in those areas, that the land was actually contributing to…
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Wildfire resilience in Wales - evidence session with the Fire Brigades Union
Yes. There were conversations with Natural Resources Wales, and when we were up in Builth Wells, it became increasingly evident that the quality of the land had been degraded, causing much greater problems. It's how the land is treated, how it's farmed—…
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Wildfire resilience in Wales - evidence session with the Fire Brigades Union
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Wildfire resilience in Wales - evidence session with the Fire Brigades Union
So, every bit of capacity was totally—
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Wildfire resilience in Wales - evidence session with the Fire Brigades Union
Prior to going up to Merseyside, if you had help from neighbouring areas, were the fire brigades reacting and coming from mid Wales, north Wales as well?
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Wildfire resilience in Wales - evidence session with the Fire Brigades Union
Geographically, it seems, in south-east Wales—.
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Wildfire resilience in Wales - evidence session with the Fire Brigades Union
I have a really quick question. Realistically, how far away could you rely on support coming from other places, in terms of engines or support?
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy: Update on the National Energy Strategy
I will. What consideration has the Cabinet Minister given to such a turnkey Government-supported approach to community energy? Thank you.
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy: Update on the National Energy Strategy
Diolch, Lywydd. Thank you, Minister. Wales's economy is, and always has been, one of extraction. It's an economy designed to export our resources for little or no reward, while private companies, mostly from the other side of the bridge, rake in the profits…
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Findings of the statutory review of the Control of Agricultural Pollution Regulations - scene setting session
Okay, thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Findings of the statutory review of the Control of Agricultural Pollution Regulations - scene setting session
They should be made to get involved, not just working with them.
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Findings of the statutory review of the Control of Agricultural Pollution Regulations - scene setting session
I'll add a little bit to what Anna was saying. At the minute, it looks as if the buck stops with the farmer. But you've got a supply chain, you've got the collectors, you've got the creameries, you've got the supermarkets and, ultimately, the individual. So…
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Findings of the statutory review of the Control of Agricultural Pollution Regulations - scene setting session
Thank you. I'll make it quick, because I know Vikki wants to get hers in.
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Findings of the statutory review of the Control of Agricultural Pollution Regulations - scene setting session
This is one thing to that: at what point does that become profitable, where you can turn it into something that can be commoditised?
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Findings of the statutory review of the Control of Agricultural Pollution Regulations - scene setting session
No, I understand.
, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Findings of the statutory review of the Control of Agricultural Pollution Regulations - scene setting session
A lot of the question I was going to ask, you've actually answered since I thought of the question. But, just to add to that, you said that, obviously, it's the relationship between producers, so it's an opportunity with the big companies, who need the…
, Plenary
Reform UK Debate: Regional rugby
The Welsh Rugby Union are at risk of destroying all this. The only ones who can change it are us here today in the Chamber. So, I hope all of us realise that that's what we need to do.
