, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
So, what about Government and Government decisions?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with culture bodies (6)
I've enjoyed the conversation this morning. I've tried listening to your different perspectives on these issues, but I want you to convince me of something, and this is what it is: to what extent is this simply a financial crisis that you've been describing?…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
I don't have any further questions.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
The committee's very happy to take written evidence if witnesses wish to give this greater consideration.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Okay, I'm grateful to you for that. So, you've identified that conditionality, if you like, in terms of taking this forward, mainly in terms of resource availability and the ability to build over a period of time. I accept all that. So, are there any changes…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Okay, fine, so—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
What does that mean, Amanda—'very, very challenging'? Tell us what it means.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Okay, thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
I think incrementalism is quite important, actually. It does build up a sense of momentum, but you've outlined funding and funding alone. So, funding is the key issue for you, rather than any other barrier.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Yes. I was interested in both the answers to that previous question from Vaughan, but also the context of the answers to an earlier question from Lee on the target of a million. In answering that first question from Lee, everybody was very positive, but it…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
That's great. We'll leave it at that. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Okay, can you quantify that?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
So, the pathway exists, it's just not sufficient?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
And I assume, from your answer, that the pathway, if you like, of resource, in its widest sense, doesn't exist at the moment. That pathway doesn't exist, which is why we don't have either the teachers or the resources to deliver the education that we want to…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
It doesn't exist. So how do we get from where we are today, where the capacity doesn't exist, to where we might be, say over the next decade, where that capacity might exist? And where would you like to prioritise the development of that capacity?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
So, yes or no? Do you think it exists or not?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
I'm grateful to you for that. And one of the themes I think that is developing in some of the evidence we've received as a committee is concern about capacity and the ability of education providers, in the wider sense, if you like, to actually deliver on the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Okay, so the balance at the moment, from what I've interpreted from that response, is that you're looking towards increasing the teaching, if you like, through the medium of Welsh rather than the teaching of Welsh as a stand-alone subject.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
So, how would this legislation actually impact upon what you're already planning to do?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
I'm just trying to follow what you've just said. In terms of where we are today, there's clearly a job of work to be done in the post-16 sector, and I presume that Medr has plans to do that notwithstanding this legislation, yes?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
But it's important that those amendments are made at Stage 2, I would suggest, so that this committee can then look hard at those things, and when we give it to the Senedd as a whole, at Stage 3, that there's a Bill that has resolved the issues and the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
I'm very interested in your evidence on this element of the legislation. You said in your introductory answer that you hadn't had that much engagement with the Welsh Government over the development of the Bill, and in your answer to the second question you've…
, Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
I'm grateful to the Llywydd for that response. We are living in fractious times, but one thing that has united Members on all sides of this Chamber is support for the people of Ukraine. We are now looking at potentially three years since the invasion of…
, Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
1. What action is the Commission taking to demonstrate the Senedd's support for the people of Ukraine? OQ61703
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
I’m grateful to you, Cabinet Secretary. Now, I’m the proud owner, of course, of a Transport for Wales concessionary card, and I’ve been making great use of this card. Now, were I to run to Ebbw Vale and catch the train that’s leaving in about 10 seconds from…
