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Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
Heledd, Peredur and Sioned have clearly set out the facts—the official facts, facts from the Westminster Government's, and clear statistics showing that people will lose their right to vote. I second the comment made by Jane Dodds in praising the work of…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd. I think Darren Millar said four times he was disappointed with my contribution. It reminded me of being a four-year-old again, back in the headmistress's office. When it comes to constitutional matters, if I'm disappointing Darren…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
At a time when turnout for elections is low, with general elections sitting at around 60 per cent, and with the Senedd struggling to reach 50 per cent, why would we want to limit people and dissuade them from sharing their voices and their opinions with us?…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
Experiments with voter ID just show that it leads to fewer people voting. In the Westminster pilot in 2019, of the 1,000 that were rejected because they didn't have ID, 338 of them—a third of them—didn't return. In another pilot, where it was possible to show…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
On top of this, it erodes the independence of the Electoral Commission. Clause 12 sets out the commission needs to follow the strategy and policy statement of the Westminster Government. This sets out priorities on electoral matters and principles that the…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
My colleagues Heledd Fychan, Peredur Owen Griffiths and Sioned Williams will discuss the impact of this Bill on the citizens of our nation. I would like to focus on the impact on our Senedd. Although the Bill doesn't directly impact devolved elections, the…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
Or will you only bark when Boris says, 'Bark'? Forget Dilyn, the No. 10 Downing Street dog, for a moment; it's their leader in the Senedd, that's Johnson's poodle, even though they don't know his name. But at least he had a prize yesterday for being a good…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
This is your opportunity, colleagues, to say, 'Enough is enough.'
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
At least the Scottish Conservatives have questioned their leadership in Westminster, but the Welsh Conservatives say nothing. They sit on their hands, no whine, no whimper, and remain totally anonymous and totally irrelevant in the eyes of their masters in…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
Or, to use the words of Gerallt Lloyd Owen, 'a man who never caught the tide.'
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
One conviction of voter impersonation in 2017; zero in 2018; none in 2019. They are willing to disenfranchise millions of our own citizens, their own voters, to stop one account of voter fraud. If ever the overused adage of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
The Conservative Members here can shake their heads as much as they like. You can argue that the aim of Boris Johnson and his crew is to protect democracy, but I very much hope that you have enough sense and integrity to realise how unnecessary the…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
Look at the evidence as a whole, at the Tory Government's action on the whole. They want to restrict protest, they want to strip people of citizenship without providing any justification. They want to stop our courts from quashing secondary legislation that…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
We need very detailed scrutiny before any limitations on the right to vote are introduced, such as the introduction of ID. You need robust evidence that is properly analysed. Certainly, there's no place for ideology in influencing any decisions. The…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
Voting is the foundation of our democracy, Dirprwy Lywydd. It's where extraordinary possibilities become reality through a mere cross in a box. It has led to the foundation of the national health service, the creation of the welfare state and the…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government's Elections Bill
Thank you very much, Deputy Llywydd. From the Chartists to the Suffragettes, people have literally given their lives to ensure that we have the right to vote on these islands, and, across the centuries, the great battle was to gain more rights, and that…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you very much. As a son of the capital city, it's been wonderful to see the growth in the use of the Welsh language and to hear the Welsh language around me as I walk the streets of the capital. As you said, one of the highlights of the social calendar…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
7. What steps is the Welsh Government taking to make the Welsh language as accessible as possible in Cardiff? OQ57508
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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Minister, last week, my team arranged a very interesting meeting between the residents of Gwaelod-y-garth in north-west Cardiff and Rod King—I'm sure you're familiar with him—an expert on road safety and the founder of 20's Plenty for Us. Now, Mr King was…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Legal Aid and Access to Justice
Counsel General, we both know from our legal careers of the close link between social justice and the justice system, so I'm pleased to see the joint statement between you and the social justice Minister. Factors such as poverty, health inequalities and…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Legal Aid and Access to Justice
Llywydd, I'm very grateful to the Counsel General for this important statement in an area that is not devolved to Wales, but it does show how serious the Government is in dealing with the huge problems that the people of our nations are currently facing. It's…
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Questions to the First Minister
Prif Weinidog, I was also glad, like you and Mr Skates, to read the review of inter-governmental relations last week, and the setting up of independent dispute resolution. As we know, such a process is needed to effectively combat a Westminster Government…
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Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Thank you very much. I've lots more I'd love to ask, but I'm looking at the time, so I'd better pass back to the Chair. Diolch yn fawr.
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Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Thank you, Counsel General. Just finally, I want to deal with remote and physical access to hearings. We heard evidence from the president of the Welsh Tribunals about the relative success—generally, the success story of the Welsh Tribunals adapting to the…
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Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Thanks very much, Mr Gerard. With regard to criminal courts, Counsel General, I see the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill—one of the positive things in that infamous Bill is the enabling to set up problem-solving courts in criminal cases, which is…
