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Questions to the First Minister
8. What discussions has the Welsh Government had with Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board following the publication of the Holden report? OQ57257
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Statement by the Minister for Rural Affairs, North Wales, and Trefnydd: The Bovine TB Eradication Programme
Thank you for your statement, Minister. I wasn't really intending to respond to the statement, but I've been sitting here listening intently to what you've had to say, and, fundamentally, nothing has changed, has it, really? You could have delivered that…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate adaptation
So, that concludes the public part of our meeting this afternoon. Our next meeting, of course, is on 25 November, when we will be scrutinising the Welsh Government's net-zero plan; the Minister for Climate Change will be before us. We will move off-line for…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate adaptation
Well, yes. Thank you very much. Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate adaptation
Excellent. Well, thank you so much, Baroness Brown, for your evidence this afternoon. We've run slightly over time, but I really am grateful to you for being with us and joining us and sharing your knowledge and expertise, and the work that you've done with…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate adaptation
Well, I think a clear message to us from this session is that mitigation is important of course. It's crucial, but adaptation as well is just as important isn't it, and I think that's certainly something that we'll take with us in our deliberations from now…
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Climate adaptation
Sure. That's fine. Although, I'm sure we'd all want to see it sort of maxed out, as it were, and as much of it happening as possible. Because that is one, of course, practical reality for us as a devolved administration, or as a Senedd, or particularly a…
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Climate adaptation
We've spoken about engagement with communities. There's another kind of engagement as well, I think, that some people feel is deficient at the moment, and that's enough working together across the UK Government and the devolved administrations. I'm just…
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Climate adaptation
Janet, then. Thank you. Janet.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate adaptation
Thank you very much. Okay. Janet, I know, is being very patient, in fairness, wanting to come in. Huw, did you want to pick up on anything in particular, or can I go to Janet and come back to you?
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Climate adaptation
A final question, yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate adaptation
Okay. Okay. I see. I see. Okay. Thank you. Joyce.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate adaptation
Thank you. Before I bring Joyce in, you mentioned an objective, and you mentioned that in your presentation—you referred to the Netherlands. Could you just give us a flavour of what that—
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Climate adaptation
Thank you, Delyth. Huw, and then we'll come to Joyce. So, Huw first.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate adaptation
Because the Office for Budget Responsibility I think have said that if we leave it a decade then the cost will double. So, that probably is another sobering thought, really, isn't it? Do Members wish to pick up on any particular points in the presentation?…
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Climate adaptation
Thank you very much, Baroness Brown. It made for some grim listening at times, I have to say. I'm so glad there was a cost-benefit ratio slide in there just to remind us that, as you say, there are opportunities when it comes to addressing some of those…
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Climate adaptation
We'll move on, therefore, to our second item, where we will be considering climate adaptation. As I mentioned, some of us have been in COP26 over the past 10 days or so. I'm one of them and other Senedd Chairs have also been in attendance, as have some other…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
A very warm welcome to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee of the Welsh Parliament. May I welcome all Members? Just to note that we have received apologies from Jenny Rathbone, but we will forgive her on this occasion…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The energy sector and the climate and nature emergencies
One area hasn't been touched upon, and I think it would be remiss of me not to refer to it. I, the Minister and others attended the launch this morning of a report by WWF Cymru, RSPB Cymru and Size of Wales that really drives home, I think, how tackling our…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The energy sector and the climate and nature emergencies
Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer, and thank you to everyone who's contributed to the debate. It's been a broad-ranging debate, and I think that reflects the breadth of the original motion, but also the amendments tabled to it. Many people have…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you very much. And of course, in the meantime, it's important that this Government does turn over every stone in order to create the revival that we all want to see. The Federation of Small Businesses, for example, is proposing a package of possible…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Well thank you for that. You've made the point for us, I think, that the UK Government has powers that we don't have in this place to respond to this. And once again, exceptional circumstances, as we're facing at the moment, show how few powers and…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Now then, Minister, if we can discuss some of the issues that are of real interest to the people of Wales—there are huge challenges facing a number of businesses in Wales at the moment, who are having to cope with a substantial increase in energy costs. And…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd. It's quite sweet, isn't it, to hear the whingeing from Conservative benches about Plaid Cymru tax policies when they can't even keep their promises when it comes to taxation on a UK level. And it really is a graphic illustration…
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Debate: Devolution of New Tax Powers
The failure of the current protocol is plain for all to see. It's been compared a number of times, hasn't it, to the old legislative competence Orders, which plagued the Senedd back in the late 2000s. They were very rapidly replaced because of concerns over…
