13 Mai 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i ofal plant: Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar waith Gweinidogion
You'll be aware, I imagine, that our child poverty report recommended that there should be one Minister for children, because of the fragmentation of responsibility. For their part, we know that parents and people who are providing childcare find the system…
13 Mai 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i ofal plant: Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar waith Gweinidogion
Thank you very much. I'm going to start off with looking at the early childhood play, learning and care plan, which was published in March. The committee's heard evidence that there's a need to really clarify the vision and purpose of the Welsh Government's…
13 Mai 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i ofal plant: Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar waith Gweinidogion
I'd very much like to welcome the new Minister for Mental Health and Early Years, Jayne Bryant. I wonder if you could just introduce your officials.
13 Mai 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyflwyniad, ymddiheuriadau, dirprwyon a datgan buddiannau
Good afternoon. Welcome to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. We're now about to conduct our final session on the follow-up inquiry into childcare. I've had apologies from Joel James and from Julie Morgan, and I'd like to welcome Buffy Williams, who…
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad: Yr Economi Werdd - Darparwyr Sgiliau
They're all male-dominated areas of development as well. Where's the degree apprenticeship in the caring industry, which is a huge concern and responsibility we have?
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad: Yr Economi Werdd - Darparwyr Sgiliau
Okay. How does this link in with giving technical skills the parity that academic skills have? What role do degree apprenticeships have, given that they are actually very limited—the ones that are actually funded by the Welsh Government?
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad: Yr Economi Werdd - Darparwyr Sgiliau
Okay. I was going to say something else there—it'll come back to me in a moment.
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad: Yr Economi Werdd - Darparwyr Sgiliau
Yes, that may not be suitable for everybody.
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad: Yr Economi Werdd - Darparwyr Sgiliau
Okay. Thank you.
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad: Yr Economi Werdd - Darparwyr Sgiliau
So, how do you work with secondary schools and colleges to ensure that people aren't becoming NEET, and they are going into the training, based on a suite of options, depending on what their interests are?
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad: Yr Economi Werdd - Darparwyr Sgiliau
Thank you. Is there anything you wanted to say on these other two aspects, as you're—?
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad: Yr Economi Werdd - Darparwyr Sgiliau
Okay. So, I have two things that I'm not clear about. One is: how do we interface with the young person's guarantee? Because so many people don't seem to know about this who are young people—or their parents. Why are we not ensuring that every young person is…
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad: Yr Economi Werdd - Darparwyr Sgiliau
So, how closely do you work with industry? Because there are several sector-leading green energy companies in Cardiff that I happen to know about, because I represent a Cardiff constituency. They obviously make it their business to know the latest innovation…
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ymchwiliad: Yr Economi Werdd - Darparwyr Sgiliau
Hello, I'm sorry I was a little bit late. I had to go and do something else. It isn't just the next generation that we've got to upskill, it's the existing workforce, because everything is changing so quickly as a result of the climate emergency and…
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Y Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy - Rhanddeiliaid eraill
Thank you.
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Y Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy - Rhanddeiliaid eraill
There's always money in muck, though. Surely, this nitrate has a value. Guano—
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Y Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy - Rhanddeiliaid eraill
Public procurement?
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Y Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy - Rhanddeiliaid eraill
Okay, I just wanted to pick up on the issue of these people who are already organic because they're on the uplands. The WWF laid on a seminar here last week, and we had two upland farmers, both of whom had increased their profitability by reducing their stock…
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Y Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy - Rhanddeiliaid eraill
Thank you.
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Y Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy - Rhanddeiliaid eraill
Okay. So, is this something that the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences and other people in the network, like you, are doing work on?
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Y Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy - Rhanddeiliaid eraill
This is the UK Government, is it?
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Y Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy - Rhanddeiliaid eraill
But we do have the odd heavy goods vehicle and public transport vehicles running off green hydrogen, so this is something you are hoping could be spread to the agricultural sector as well, for these heavy vehicles.
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Y Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy - Rhanddeiliaid eraill
And it doesn't advance the case unless it's green hydrogen.
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Y Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy - Rhanddeiliaid eraill
But it could run off hydro or solar—
9 Mai 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Y Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy - Rhanddeiliaid eraill
Okay. All right, so this is one to think of for the future. Moving on, you are arguing that we need to address the amount of emissions from agricultural machinery if we're going to actually meet our objectives. Could you elaborate on that, because it's not…
