, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Remit of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee
We move on therefore to the second item, which is to note a paper that sets out the remit of this committee. Is everyone happy to note that paper? Thank you very much.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to you all to the inaugural meeting of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee of the sixth Senedd. Welcome to the Members who make up this committee to our first meeting. Could I formally thank you for the privilege of chairing…
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Debate: Priorities for 2022-23 Budget Preparations
May I welcome this debate, and thank the Minister for bringing forward this debate in the absence of the fact that the Finance Committee wasn't established in time to do so? The first thing I want to say and what I want to do is to echo what I said in the…
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Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2021-22
Can I start by acknowledging the challenging circumstances faced by Government over the past few years, with the absence of comprehensive spending reviews and assurance in terms of the funding to be provided, and the ad hoc funding coming from Westminster?…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
Thank you, Llywydd. What I wanted to do was draw the Minister's attention to plans that are afoot to create a cycle route from Ruthin to Denbigh through the vale of Clwyd. Now, this route, of course, would link the towns for local residents, in terms of…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
Thank you for that response. I want to draw your attention to a campaign that's afoot to put plans in place for a cycle route from Ruthin to Denbigh through the Vale of Clwyd. That would not only link the two towns for local residents—
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
2. Will the Minister make a statement on the promotion of tourism in Denbighshire? OQ56749
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Questions to the First Minister
I'm pleased to hear you talking about a resilient future for the sector, because tourism is a key sector for us in north Wales, as it is in other parts of Wales, of course. But striking that right balance between tourism that brings benefits to our community…
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Questions to the First Minister
3. Will the First Minister make a statement on the sustainability of the tourism sector in north Wales? OQ56750
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Business Statement and Announcement
I have two requests to Government, related to the same issue. First of all, I would kindly ask the Trefnydd to ensure that the First Minister writes to the Football Association of Wales to congratulate the national squad on what they've achieved at the Euros…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for that response. I would be very pleased if you could confirm that those funds are all open and live at the moment. I have been contacted by some communities, including Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch and Cyffylliog in Denbighshire, who have agreed to…
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Questions to the First Minister
3. What additional support will the Welsh Government provide to enable communities to access better broadband services? OQ56711
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Nominations for Committee Chairs
Thank you, Llywydd. I wish to nominate Delyth Jewell to chair this committee.
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Well, if you expect local authorities to do this voluntarily, I think you're kidding yourself to some extent, Minister. I think that the Government needs to be proactive in encouraging the local authorities to adopt this new system. So, do you agree with, for…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
3. How will the Welsh Government ensure that local authorities adopt the single transferable vote as a voting system as a result of the coming into force of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021? OQ56641
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Whilst recognising the clear challenges of the inadequate and deficient settlements that we've had from London, the committee does set a challenge to Government to do what it can to invest in our public services in order to deliver the ambitions of the Act…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
'Legislation which requires public bodies to plan for future generations is more difficult to implement properly if budgets are guaranteed for as little as one year at a time.'
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you. The Government hasn't formally responded to the report as of yet. I think the intention was to ask the current Government to respond because the report was published at the end of the last Senedd. And given your key role now in the context of local…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
You've perhaps touched on this in your previous response, but perhaps you could tell us what partnerships and structures you anticipate being made redundant over the ensuing period. And, indeed, the suggestion then is that the intention is to merge many of…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
'in the longer term, we would envisage some of those...partnerships, some of those other structures, becoming redundant, actually, because the CJCs will be taking a much more powerful overview—and a much wider overview as they settle in—that will begin to…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Of course, this point has come about as a result of the Public Accounts Committee, a cross-party committee, at the end of the last Senedd, which looked at the implementation of the well-being of future generations Act. The committee said that the…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Well, lucky Alun Michael, I say. There we are. I'm sure there'll be others that you will be talking to.
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you very much, Llywydd. May I take this opportunity to congratulate you and put on record my formal congratulations to you on your appointment as Minister in the current Government? I look forward very much to shadowing your work during this Senedd…
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Business Statement and Announcement
It's four years now since the Children, Young People and Education Committee of the last Senedd held an inquiry into perinatal mental health in Wales. Now, among the recommendations accepted by the Government was that the Government, in light of the fact that…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Motion under Standing Order 17.2 to give instructions to a relevant committee in relation to the all-Wales NVZ
I'm very pleased that Plaid Cymru co-submitted this debate this afternoon and that this is a joint motion from the opposition parties, which does show how strongly feelings run on this issue. But from my perspective, of course, this is a motion laid in a…
