, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
Christine, yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
I'll allow Christine or Josh to make any succinct points if you wish to add anything, and then we'll need to move on.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
Yes, okay. Thanks.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
Josh.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
Okay. Shall we start with Christine this time?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
Yes, okay. Lots of challenges there. Thank you. We'll move on to Joyce next.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
Thank you, Josh. Right, okay. Christine, there's a lot to pick up on there, but also, of course, mindful of the original question around key priorities and challenges.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
That would be really useful. Thank you, Scott. That would be really, really really useful. Josh, and then we will come to Christine.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
Josh. Oh, sorry. Scott first, then, and then Josh, sorry. Yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
Okay, thank you. I see that Huw wants to come in; I will come to you, Christine. Let's hear from Huw first and then we can go to Christine.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
Thank you, Scott, and if I could just pick up on a couple of points in relation to buses particularly, because I’m picking up issues around sufficiency of workforce as well. I saw a statement from Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council yesterday, I think…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
Okay. Diolch, Josh. And some of those points we will be exploring further as we go along in this session. Scott, would you like to pick up on a few things?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 1 - Transport
So, we move on to the proper work of the committee and today we're taking a number of evidence sessions looking at the committee's priorities for the sixth Senedd and focusing this morning on transport, and specifically in this first session on active travel…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning and welcome all to the meeting of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee at the Senedd. Of course this is the first meeting of the autumn term, so I welcome you all and everybody who's joining us. This is a bilingual meeting…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you for your answer. The B5605 at Newbridge near Wrexham, as I'm sure you will have guessed I was going to raise, was swept away, of course, by a landslip caused by storm Christoph recently. It isn't a rural back road, as you know. It's quite an…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
4. What discussions has the Minister had with the Minister for Climate Change regarding repairing roads in north Wales that were affected by flooding this year? OQ56817
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Following the saga of Geronimo, the alpaca, and all the fuss about culling one alpaca when there are 10,000 cattle being culled for the same reason in Wales every year—there are 10,000 Geronimos killed in Wales every year, to all intents and purposes—do you…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
In the hope, of course, that there will be a gear change in terms of how quickly these issues are solved, because, as you say, there are problems and there are pressures that we need to deal with, as well as the structural questions that are more long term…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Well, yes, thank you for that. Perhaps we don't know how much will come to Wales, but we know that there will be a significant cost for employers and local authorities. That's one aspect of the public sector, of course. You can multiply that across the rest…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you very much, Llywydd. We know, of course, that local authorities have suffered increasing cuts over the past decade—cuts of around 22 per cent in real terms since 2010. Now, we also hear what the implications of that are in terms of services, and in…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) to resolve to exclude the public from item 9 of today's meeting
On that note, I will therefore suggest that we move into private session. So, I propose in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(vi) that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of today's meeting. Are Members content? Yes. Diolch yn fawr…
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Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Environment Bill: scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
It does indeed. And given the time has come to an end—the allocated time for our session as well—I think having that in written form would be useful. Thank you, Minister. We're out of time, unless there are any pressing issues that Members wish to raise or…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Environment Bill: scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
No. Okay, we'll move on to the other area of questioning that you wanted to pursue, which is our final set of questions. Joyce needs to be unmuted. There we are.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Environment Bill: scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, good. Thank you for that. Joyce, did you want to come in on water as well?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Environment Bill: scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
—but certainly give us an outline. We're waiting for Eifiona to be unmuted. It should happen automatically. There we are.
