, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Okay. In terms of—. I'm grateful to you for that. But, in terms of that preparatory work, I'm interested, therefore, in how you will demonstrate the place of the TCA in the Welsh experience. I use that word in its widest sense, because the Cabinet Secretary…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
You have.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Now, there is the opportunity, of course, to open that up if there's goodwill on both sides of the table. Would you wish to see a wider, more fundamental review of the TCA, of the operation of the TCA, or would you prefer this sort of narrower approach?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Okay. So, in terms of developing your thinking on the TCA, at the moment, there is a sense that this is a review, as you've said, of the implementation. So, quite a narrow-based review of it.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Yes, yes. But you're not leading a thought process on that at the moment.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
But you are taking the lead, yes?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Yes, but you're taking a lead, I imagine, yes?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
No, that's—. It's interesting that you're thinking in those terms, Cabinet Secretary. But we do then have a period—. Because we're not expecting the new EU structures to be in place much before the autumn—or, in fact, they won't be before the autumn—at the…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Yes. The collapse of the political leadership of the United Kingdom Government is clearly an issue for all of us. The descriptions of relationships with UK Ministers is not the historical experience, of course. It's something that is very different at the…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Thank you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Okay. Thank you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
So, how many meetings have there been at a ministerial level? Maybe it's easier for you to write to us with this information, but I just want to understand—and I do understand what you're saying—how that looks in practical terms. How many ministerial meetings…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Yes.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Yes. You have described the situation as it is and the structures that do exist. Whether we like it or not, I understand that. But, there is a role for Welsh Ministers here to knock on the doors of the Ministers in Westminster and to tell them clearly what…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: The future of farming in Wales
I very much welcome your appointment, Minister. I very much welcome the way in which you've hit the ground running. The announcement that you made today, I think, demonstrates a real willingness to move forward, but to do so in conversation with people…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Our national mission—delivering on Wales’s education priorities
I welcome very much the statement you've made this afternoon, Minister. There are two issues I would like to raise with you this afternoon. First of all is additional learning needs. You will remember that I was the Minister who was responsible for taking…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Can I say I think this is an appalling way of legislating? It really is poor—250 amendments at such a late stage in the process. I think it demonstrates the dangers of the sort of joint legislation that we see between the two Parliaments. This, and the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
I was going to say that I think somebody, whichever is the appropriate committee, should look harder at this, because I think there is a great deal left unsaid in the memorandum of understanding, and I'm not convinced that this memorandum of understanding…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
I found it quite a curious memorandum of understanding, because it does give high-level structures, but I'm unclear as to how those structures will work in practice and how they'll be managed in practice. I'm unclear as to who in this place would hold the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
Can I raise an issue?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
I think we should revisit.
, Plenary
Short Debate: Soaring high: Reintroducing the white-tailed eagle to Wales
The last time a white-tailed eagle was logged in Wales was in Port Talbot, of all places—the Deputy Presiding Officer takes the chair just at this moment—in Kenfig, in fact, in 1888. Our landscape has been bare of white-tailed eagles for over 150 years. It's…
, Plenary
Short Debate: Soaring high: Reintroducing the white-tailed eagle to Wales
Thank you very much. The Presiding Officer, I'm sure, will agree with me that one of the most beautiful sights as you drive along the A470 and the A44, as we've both done on many occasions, is to see the red kites flying high and seeing them returning to…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Cap on political donations
I'm grateful to you for that. I'm grateful to the First Minister for establishing this review—I think it is important. Carwyn Jones, of course, who's leading it, has already said he's going to investigate a cap on donations, and I think we look forward to…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Cap on political donations
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