Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
- Started
- 13:30
- Contributions
- 5
- Words spoken
- 645
Opening of the meeting
The committee met in the Senedd and by video-conference.
The meeting began at 13:30.
1. Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Good afternoon and welcome, everyone.
Welcome to this meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. We are meeting in public before we go into a private session later on this afternoon.
The normal housekeeping rules, just to remind everybody, are that this meeting is being broadcast live on Senedd.tv and the Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. Apart from the normal procedural adaptations for conducting proceedings remotely and today, indeed, in hybrid form at some point, particularly when we go into private, all the other Standing Order requirements remain in place. We have no apologies for today's meeting; we have everybody here in person and it's lovely to see you all here—this is slightly unusual. So, I'm looking forward to this session today. If we do have a fire alarm today, just leave the room by the usual marked fire exit, following instructions from the ushers and staff. We do not have any tests forecast for today. And if you can ensure that all your devices are switched to silent. As per normal, we're operating through the medium of both Welsh and English and there's instantaneous translation received. There might be a slight delay as you switch from one to the other if you're using that translation facility. There's no need to touch any of the buttons on the microphones as these can actually disable the system, so we'll try not to do that, and just ensure that your red light comes on up here before speaking. So, interpretation is available on channel 1 and verbatim on channel 2, and we're expecting Senedd officials to join us remotely when we go into private, as I mentioned.