, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
You mentioned your vision, which you're going to publish very soon, and also that the Welsh Government have talked about rail board project pipelines being published soon. Are they one and the same? Have you had conversations?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
I'm moving on to rail, and more specifically, rail infrastructure investment. We know that, this year, you've had £445 million, announced by the UK Government spending review, for rail infrastructure. I'm going to ask a silly question, but I'm going to ask it…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
Absolutely.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
I was really pleased to hear you mention safety, personal safety, as one of your top priorities. Moving on from that, I'm also pleased to hear that you've been getting out and about. In those board meetings, where you've said you've invited people from the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Government rail policy and rail reform - evidence session with Professor Mark Barry
Yes, I do. When we talk about the devolution of rail, there have to be pluses, pros and cons, in other words, and we've got very little time. We've heard a lot from you about the cons, if you like. But I want to hear how that balance goes and what we can say…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Government rail policy and rail reform - evidence session with Professor Mark Barry
That's not my understanding. So, I think, if we could have a note on that, because—. We need to be clear about these things.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Government rail policy and rail reform - evidence session with Professor Mark Barry
I just don't know.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Government rail policy and rail reform - evidence session with Professor Mark Barry
I just want to have some clarification around 'have regard' in the Bill, because I've sat through many Bills, and 'have regard' doesn't mean you have a choice. My understanding of the legal term in a Bill of 'have regard' puts an onus on the Government…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Government rail policy and rail reform - evidence session with Professor Mark Barry
But that's an opinion. And maybe it's the right opinion, but we're still trying to get to doing something. You keep coming back to devolution, and the fact is, in 2005, it was rejected because, 'You're taking over'. So, isn't there another piece of work…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Government rail policy and rail reform - evidence session with Professor Mark Barry
Could that be a recommendation that we have? Because that's what we're looking for. That the data is more readily available, so we can understand what we need to ask, because data will inform an ask.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Government rail policy and rail reform - evidence session with Professor Mark Barry
So, there's no further information on how to do it, because that's what we're trying to get. We're trying to get to the governance, and how we actually address that governance, so that we can make a recommendation. Rather than saying, 'It hasn't worked for…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Government rail policy and rail reform - evidence session with Professor Mark Barry
To bring us on to governance, we've had, obviously, Lord Hendy before us many times before, and I'm going to quote him. He said: ‘we're committed to ensuring that GBR remains accountable to Ministers across the UK, including in Wales and Scotland.’ You've…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Government rail policy and rail reform - evidence session with Professor Mark Barry
I was just struck by your rather bold statement, I thought, that Wales is deemed inconsequential, and how you've arrived at thinking like that, because it might seem like a throwaway statement, but it's quite loaded.
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, First Minister. I was pleased to see the recent completion of a new eco-tourism development in Cardigan. Fronteifi Nature Lodges reflect the beauty of the surrounding Teifi marshes, while being committed to sustainability and also social value. All…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
5. Will the First Minister provide an update on how the Welsh Government is supporting tourism in Mid and West Wales? OQ63759
, Health and Social Care Committee
Improving access to support for unpaid carers: evidence session with the Minister for Children and Social Care
That's fine.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Improving access to support for unpaid carers: evidence session with the Minister for Children and Social Care
It can just be peer support groups. It can be just having an out, away from—a little bit of respite, some back-filling. So, I wonder—and it's about delivery, isn't it—how that's being communicated down to those people who are closing some of those facilities…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Improving access to support for unpaid carers: evidence session with the Minister for Children and Social Care
And if I can, finally—. Of course, some of the provision for young people isn't necessarily high level.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Improving access to support for unpaid carers: evidence session with the Minister for Children and Social Care
Moving on, we heard particularly from young carers about better access to mental health support, and young people told us that they're constantly worrying about the person they leave at home. We just wanted to know, whilst a lot of good work has happened in…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Improving access to support for unpaid carers: evidence session with the Minister for Children and Social Care
Yes, and also, that there's a flag put up if that patient's going to be discharged to home, probably, usually, where the carer already feels that they're not able, and yet we're hearing it's happening.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Improving access to support for unpaid carers: evidence session with the Minister for Children and Social Care
When we took evidence, we heard quite distressing anecdotal evidence that people were being not listened to. They were trying to express the fact that they weren't able—not necessarily willing, but not able—to provide the care, only to find out the discharge…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Improving access to support for unpaid carers: evidence session with the Minister for Children and Social Care
You can, and I'm going to talk about the pressure on unpaid carers and the fact that some carers are just saying they've got no choice but to care, and yet the law says that they must be willing and able. Those two things are clearly at odds, so what measures…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Improving access to support for unpaid carers: evidence session with the Minister for Children and Social Care
Following on from their obligation, the one thing that would inform us about a local authority taking that obligation seriously is whether they've actually discussed it in any committee within a local authority during, maybe, the last year or even the year…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales
Thank you.
