, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 3: marine planning and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Yes, okay. No, that's a clear message. Emily wants to come back in and I'll give Claire Stephenson a chance as well, if you wish to add anything, and then we'll go back to Huw. So, Emily.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 3: marine planning and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Sorry, before the others come in, we did hear from Natural Resources Wales, of course; they were reminding us that it isn't that there's no provision for beyond the 12 nautical miles. There are systems and things in place if there are issues or developments…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 3: marine planning and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Emily then. Go on. Thank you, Emily.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 3: marine planning and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Okay. Who wants to take that first?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 3: marine planning and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Yes, okay. Janet, over to you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 3: marine planning and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Okay. And Emily.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 3: marine planning and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Welcome back to the committee, and the fourth item on our agenda is to hear the third evidence session as part of our work looking at the marine environment, and, specifically in this session, marine planning and MPAs. I'm very pleased to welcome our…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
There we are. I'm sure you would. Yes. Okay, can I, therefore, thank you so much, David and Jess, for the evidence you've given us? It reminds us of how much work there is potentially that needs to be done, and, certainly, our initial work today on the wider…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
[Inaudible.]—Delyth, I'm sure, but—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Okay. Well, I was offering you the last word on all of this, just to respond to Jenny and to bring the session to an end.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Yes, okay. Thanks, David. So, the last word, then, to Jess. Jess, did you get that?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Jenny wants to raise something before I bring Jess in, and maybe we won't be far off concluding our session, then.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Yes—relevant and beneficial, I suppose, isn't it? David, do you want to take this?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Excellent. Okay, thank you very much for that. We move on, then—we've got about eight or nine minutes left, so we move on to Delyth.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Jess, you were a bit more hesitant.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
David is nodding. Jess isn't as convinced.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Excellent. Okay, thank you. I wasn't sure whether Joyce wanted to come in on this line of questioning before we move on.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Yes, and bringing everything together. Jess.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Okay, shall we go to David first, then, just to make the points he wanted to make and then we'll allow Jess just to conclude on this section?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Huw wants to come back in, and I think David, you want to pick up on something as well, but we'll go to Huw first, and then maybe you can come in then.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Okay. Are you into maps, Jess? [Laughter.]
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Thank you. Before I bring Jess in, Huw wants to interject.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
David, maybe, first of all, on this one.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Okay. Thank you. There's a clear message there. Fine. We'll move on to Janet, then.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Thanks for that, David. We were told it was the first three years funded at risk by NRW themselves, but now it's got to a point where they're really looking to Government to help them. Because, as you say, it isn't just carrying on with what they have; they…
