, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you, Minister. I'm looking through Part 5 of the Bill. You've just said, in answering Vaughan, that you would expect the learning Welsh institute to facilitate the language in the community. I don't see anything here…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
That's clear.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
So, you don't want statutory provision in this area.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
I'm interested in what the politicians have got to say about what the Welsh Government are doing, in fact, in terms of the approach taken, because when the Minister is sitting in your seats in a few weeks' time, you know and we all know what they're going to…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
Do you think that Cardiff should have an additional element of grant from the Welsh Government because it’s the capital city? That's the argument you're using—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
You're picking on me every time. [Laughter.]
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
But they're also about Cardiff's—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
All of those services and service areas that you've described are essential elements of what local government will provide to the population. I've got no issue with any of that. But you didn't use that language when you were talking about culture and arts and…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
Can I just finish?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
I don't disagree with you about the issues you face, by the way. I'm not going to challenge you on any of that at all. But the question I asked was quite a discrete question, in fact, about the language and tone and approach, if you like—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
It's the language rather than the facts that I'm interested in.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with local government representatives (8)
I'm interested, Huw, in the language you've used in answering that question. The language was all of subsidies and losses and business. It wasn't about service. And I'm interested as to why you chose to use that approach. Why employ that approach?
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: UK Government Budget
If you have the analysis that supports that, I will support you, but, in 15 years in this place, I've never seen the analysis that actually delivers that sort of conclusion. [Interruption.] Show me the analysis, Darren, and I will support you, right. But you…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: UK Government Budget
As I tried to say in my introductory remarks, Rhun, wait for the budget before you condemn it, right. Now, I do believe—[Interruption.] I do believe—. I will carry on, if you don't mind, because we also need to look at the future of the shared prosperity…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: UK Government Budget
I think it was Willie John McBride, wasn't it, the 1974 Lions, who advised us to get our retaliation in first, and it's certainly good to see Plaid Cymru registering their disappointment at a budget that hasn't yet been delivered. I would certainly advise…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: UK Government Budget
It's not a very good one, is it? Come on.
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: UK Government Budget
We don't know why.
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
I'm grateful to you for that, Cabinet Secretary. The Cabinet Secretary will, of course, be aware of the Goldworks development, which has just been opened in Blaenau Gwent, and I should take the opportunity, of course, of inviting her to Blaenau Gwent to go…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
8. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on economic development investment in Blaenau Gwent? OQ61746
, Plenary
Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery: The Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
I'm grateful, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I welcome very much the publication of this Bill—I'm probably one of the few people who has actually really enjoyed reading it since it was published—and also the way in which you've answered questions this…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Could I ask for two statements, leader of the house? First of all, on banking hubs, the Government was elected with a commitment to create a community bank. Now, we understand that that can't be taken forward for many different reasons, but the reasons for…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: evidence session
I'm satisfied with that. The Minister, in responding to this question, of course, has challenged the committee, and there's a Bill that's coming in front of the Senedd tomorrow that deals with how we deal with subordinate legislation, and I do think that…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: evidence session
You make a fair point and you make it very powerfully, and I agree with it, as it happens. But when it comes to this committee and other committees scrutinising the Bill as it currently stands, when so many regulations come after that, and powers for…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: evidence session
But without the scrutiny, that's what we're talking about here.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: evidence session
And that's the question I have. If we look at section 23(9), that creates a power, if I understand it correctly, to make amendments through regulations, not by legislating. So, you're changing legislation created by the Senedd through an order, through the…
