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Welsh Labour Debate: The M4 around Newport
Well, can I just say, Darren, that you and I would both agree that what happened on the road to Damascus with Saul, who became Paul, was one of the greatest things that ever happened in world history? [Interruption.] So, I wouldn't go criticising that, but…
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Welsh Labour Debate: The M4 around Newport
Can I just ask you when the Nazzano method was put forward? I don't remember anybody apart from me having mentioned it. I envisage only widening the tunnels and two short lane carriageways either side. There are other methods—I mean, in Japan, they have the…
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Welsh Labour Debate: The M4 around Newport
If we were starting from scratch now, the M4 would stretch from the bridge over the Severn estuary to Fishguard. The motorway would be three lanes wide for the whole of its length. There would be fewer junctions, and they would be further apart. It was built…
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Members' Legislative Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): An NHS first Bill
Can I thank Gwyn for bringing this before us today? I'm a member of the Socialist Health Association, and committed to a publicly funded and publicly provided health service. The NHS, despite the waiting times and financial pressures, is supported by the vast…
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Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Can I thank the Minister for that reply? Perhaps I ought to say that I used to be a governor at Tycoch and my grandchild goes to Bryn Tawe, so I've got an interest, though not necessarily a financial one. I thought I'd bring that up for the record. One of the…
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Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
2. What is the Welsh Government doing to improve further education provision in Swansea? OQ64724
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Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
It's because they have a Labour Government.
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Finance: An Update on Council Tax
All property prices do not move at the same rate; if they did, there would be no problem. No change is baking in unfairness. I've asked previously to base council tax on actual value. I've also previously asked, if we have to have bands, for more at the top…
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Business Statement and Announcement
We have a shortage of housing available for rent. Houses that were previously privately rented have been converted into Airbnb properties. This housing shortage is made worse by the growth of Airbnb properties. These Airbnb properties take business away from…
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Questions to the Counsel General
Thank you.
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Questions to the Counsel General
Thank you for that answer. I'm sure we'll return to that next month. What I'll also say, of course, on that, is that you've got approximately £200 million underspent, sitting there available, so you could be looking to use some of that. But I want to move on…
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Questions to the Counsel General
Diolch. Counsel General, last month, on level 7 apprenticeships, you said, 'What I can tell him, which may cheer him up slightly, is that level 7 apprenticeships at the bar and also solicitors are uppermost in this Government's mind. We are pushing forward on…
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Annual scrutiny session with the National Library of Wales
Well, I was in Oriel Môn on Saturday, and, yes, there are great exhibitions there. But what I'm saying is: couldn't more use be made—? And I did ask it last time; I don't think I asked it in such a way that there was only one answer to it, or two…
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Annual scrutiny session with the National Library of Wales
Sorry, I'd better unmute myself. Can I say how pleased I was to hear that you're using 10 galleries across Wales? Far too often, anything to do with culture is one big building somewhere, normally in Cardiff. What I was going to ask is: what is the…
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Annual scrutiny session with Amguedda Cymru
Diolch, Gadeirydd. Have you considered taking, for example, one room in the Glynn Vivian and keeping it there as part of a contemporary art gallery? If you know the Glynn Vivian, there are lots of rooms in there—actually having one of those rooms as part of a…
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Reform UK Debate: Local referendums on council tax rises
Do you want to go around telling elderly people they can't have home care support because you want to save money?
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Reform UK Debate: Local referendums on council tax rises
Well, we'll find out next May how few of you will survive in local government, and we'll find out in three years' time how few of you are here. Can I suggest you start looking at council by-elections and, if you go back, how long it is since you last won one?
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Reform UK Debate: Local referendums on council tax rises
I can understand—. I understand your position: you want to privatise everything. You want the parents to pay for everything. You want them to pay for everything and you don't want the taxpayer to pay for it. [Interruption.]
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Reform UK Debate: Local referendums on council tax rises
I've never heard people speak in a debate with so much ignorance. I will just respond to one thing. There's the Welsh purchasing consortium, where local authorities get together to buy things cheaply between themselves. Local government provides many of the…
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Welsh Labour Debate: Palliative and end-of-life care
I have visited Tŷ Olwen Hospice both as a relative and also as a Senedd representative of the area in which Tŷ Olwen is based. The issue that got me considering palliative care in detail, and hospices, was the assisted dying debate. The lack of adequate…
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Questions to the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport
Thank you very much for that answer. As you may remember, in November 2024, the then Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership, Jack Sargeant, took part in a landmark event in the Senedd to promote Wales's thriving esports industry and the…
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Questions to the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I want to raise a question on esports, which, as most people I think know, is short for electronic sports, which refers to organised competitive video gaming where individuals or teams compete in specific games for prizes…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Rural Resilience and Sustainability: Winter preparedness: Be flood ready
We've just had the warmest summer of the rest of our lives. According to public documents, we have had more flooding in the first 25 years of the twenty-first century than the whole of the twentieth century. Whilst flooding is not as annually predictable as…
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Debate: Fiscal Reform
Every local authority in Britain can move money into and out of reserves. This includes town and community councils and it actually includes school governing bodies, who can also move money into and out of reserves. No controls, no rules. It's their money…
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Business Statement and Announcement
I'm requesting a Government statement on its tourism strategy. A strategy is not saying that tourism is important to the Welsh economy and that we want it. Which tourism sectors does the Welsh Government think are important? How are they going to target…
