12 September 2023 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Energy Bill
Thank you very much, Llywydd. I find myself in a rather curious position today, contributing to this debate when the climate change committee has not had an opportunity to consider the LCM or an opportunity to report on it. We had intended to consider the LCM…
12 September 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Those are the words that she used, with the strong suggestion that there would be need for cuts this year—that is, in-year cuts—in the current budget. So, can you confirm whether the Government will ask health boards—and Betsi Cadwaladr health board, of…
12 September 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
'You ain't seen nothing yet.'
12 September 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
You are entirely right, of course—the pressures are huge. At the NHS Confederation dinner yesterday evening, your Minister for health said, in the context of cuts:
12 September 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
2. Will the First Minister make a statement on the financial situation at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board? OQ59880
12 July 2023 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The Crown Estate
Would you take a short intervention?
12 July 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Well, there have been recent outbreaks, and it is of huge concern. It's something I raised with the climate change Minister last week, and I was effectively referred to you on this, so I'd like to ask what additional support and advice is being given to…
12 July 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
4. Will the Minister provide an update on the Welsh Government's response to cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza? OQ59844
12 July 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Isn't assuming that the money will come from the UK Government playing a rather dangerous game, because the UK Government does have form in this respect, where they have reneged on promises made in the past to fully replace EU funding to Wales post Brexit?…
12 July 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd. Minister, you told us yesterday that you hadn't had any kind of definitive assurance of funding from the UK Government for the implementation of the sustainable farming scheme. How, therefore, are you factoring funding uncertainties…
12 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
To be critical of the process. We need to change the process to reflect the situation, that we are dependent on Westminster.
12 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
Yes. I think that the nature of the Finance Committee's letter is very robust, I think, and I think there has been concern expressed. That is, there are wider questions in terms of the fact that the system doesn't work, because it's never been used as it…
12 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
—on the letter from the Finance Committee on a proposed timetable for scrutinising the budget? I don't know if the committee would like to write to echo the concern that, once again, there has been a restriction on the scrutiny period allowed, because this is…
12 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
Could I raise something on 3.6—
12 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of Amgueddfa Cymru
Diolch.
12 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of Amgueddfa Cymru
Unfortunately, that was a better note to finish on than the question I'm going to ask, but there we are. I was just looking at some of the comments that you made in the papers, and you say that you want to be visible in and around the organisation. Obviously…
12 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of Amgueddfa Cymru
Diolch.
12 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of Amgueddfa Cymru
But there is a very adversarial culture when you have chief executives around the table and so on, and moving to a situation where you have trustees who aren't paid but who are there, perhaps, because the incentives are different. So, how are you going to…
12 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of Amgueddfa Cymru
Can you expand a little bit on some of those challenges, some of the things that you've had to deal with?
12 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of Amgueddfa Cymru
'I was presented with a number of key governance challenges on appointment'.
12 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of Amgueddfa Cymru
Thank you. I was going to ask why you felt that you are well suited for this role, and I do still want to pursue that line of questioning. But you've just started talking about some of the experiences that you've had. Just looking at the material that has…
11 July 2023 , Plenary
Debate: Welsh Government Annual Report—Delivering the Government’s priorities and legislative programme
So, what you're saying is: let the electors of England decide our fate.
11 July 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd: Government response to the second phase of the sustainable farming scheme co-design
It's disappointing that you're not able today to tell us about this funding gap between the end of the basic payments and the beginning of the sustainable farming scheme. For the sake of a couple of days, I think it would have been good for you to share that…
11 July 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd: Government response to the second phase of the sustainable farming scheme co-design
Thank you to the Minister for her statement. I look forward to scrutinising the detail of the sustainable farming scheme. Despite the discussion that there's been on the Agriculture (Wales) Bill, I think we're now getting to the detail, and if the Bill was…
7 July 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
North Wales
Just one final question, because there was a report last year from the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data that pointed to potential tensions in looking at the Welsh Government approach to the north Wales growth deal, where you encourage…
