, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Sorry, yes. Okay. Janet, and then we'll come to Joyce.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
So, it might be different depending on the merits or otherwise of each individual application.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
So, how would there be clarity around which one has precedence?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
So, they may flip.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you very much, Jenny. Janet.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
But that would potentially mean, then, a change to the Bill at Stage 2 or 3.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Sorry, Jenny. I think Huw wants to—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Indeed, yes. Okay, thank you. Jenny.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Yes. There we are. Okay, thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. So, before we move on from resourcing, then, just for clarity, Minister, what you're saying is that your intention is to ensure that the scale of fees is high enough and sufficient enough to ensure that local planning authorities and other statutory…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Can we just hold that thought, and we'll take a question from Joyce as well, and then we'll respond to both at the same time?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. I have both Jenny and Joyce wanting to come in, so, very briefly, and I'll take you both together, and then maybe you can respond to both at the same time.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Huw, you wanted to come in on this.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
It's a fair comment.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. Thank you, Huw. And of course, all of this will come in secondary legislation. I suppose it illustrates the difficulty we're having in scrutinising what the landscape will look like as we deliberate the merits or otherwise of this Bill, but there we…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay, and we'll be drilling down into some specifics, obviously, as we go along. Thank you, Jenny. Huw.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
There we are. Okay, well that's positive, thank you. Jenny.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
So, we'll go on to the main focus of this meeting, because today we will be having our second evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change on the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill, and, of course, we will be bringing our scrutiny work for Stage 1 to an…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee here at the Senedd. Could I welcome Members to the meeting? This is, of course, a hybrid meeting. Aside from the adaptations relating to…
, Plenary
Debate on the Local Government and Housing Committee Report, 'Local Authority Library and Leisure Services'
Just a brief contribution from me, if I may. There is a consultation that is live at the moment in Denbighshire County Council on reducing the hours of the county's libraries. We discussed earlier this afternoon the financial pressures facing local…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Let's be clear what the leader of Denbighshire council has said. He said, 'I just want to clarify: in no way are we saying that Denbighshire is going bankrupt,' for the avoidance of doubt. 'What I wanted to stress was that what we've seen in England is…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Diolch, Weinidog. I want to highlight to you how a family, while grieving the loss of their father, have had a further exhausting battle to understand why he deteriorated so quickly when he was in care. Colin had dementia and he was getting one-to-one care…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
4. Will the Minister make a statement on the regulatory oversight of health and social care in north Wales? OQ60127
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
So, our first point of concern relates to the use of concurrent powers and the bypassing of Senedd scrutiny of planning data and environmental outcomes reports regulations made by the Secretary of State on behalf of the Welsh Minister. Now, this issue has…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. The Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee has published three reports on the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill, covering the first four memoranda. After being laid on 6 October, memorandum No. 5 was…
