1 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
The pressures that we discussed earlier, on BBC and S4C in our context in Wales, are still great. Nigel.
1 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
Look, I fully understand any commercial operator would not want limitations on what they can negotiate and their negotiating position. I completely accept that. I have no issue with that at all. But the £20 million figure you quoted is a figure that, at the…
1 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
We're pleased you did.
1 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
I completely accept the points you make. I was in Brussels last week, so I wasn't able to be here, but the impression I've gained, reading the paperwork, and watching what's gone on over the last year, is that you're right, there has been a significant change…
1 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
I completely accept that. I've got no issue with that. I've no issue with the argument you're making either, as it happens. I think the tension there is clear, and it is a part of the negotiation, and I think moving the six nations onto a list of protected…
1 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
Okay.
1 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
Is cricket a warning?
1 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
But you're in danger—. Yes, I think, obviously, the money is important—and I think Abi's letter yesterday was a very important letter and I've got no issue with any of that—but the price you pay is the loss of those icons and the loss of that place in our…
1 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
Yes, I just want to come back on something that Nigel mentioned, the correlation between access to sport in terms of the viewers and also their participation and the rest of it. And that's quite an interesting correlation, isn't it? Because you're right, and…
1 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
I accept that; I accept that.
1 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
Yes, exactly.
1 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
—when it papered Saturday, the build-up and all of that sort of stuff, breathless people walking along streets talking to other breathless people. It's not the same, is it?
1 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
No, but we all saw the decline of the FA Cup from the days that we will remember, growing up in the 1970s—
1 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
The FA Cup would be on its knees if it wasn't for the BBC and ITV broadcasting it, wouldn't it?
1 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
I watched super Newport on Sunday.
1 February 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
It's not true of sport, is it?
31 January 2024 , Plenary
Short Debate: Heart Failure—Innovation is saving lives
I'm grateful to the Member for Bridgend and Porthcawl for bringing this debate this evening. I think it's really important and essential that you've done this, because as one of the 3 per cent of people in Wales who survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest…
31 January 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Six Nations rugby broadcasting
Give me five, and we'll do a deal. The five nations, the six nations, is a part of who we are. It defines us. I remember people who wouldn't normally be watching rugby or sport would be tuning in because they'd want to see how Wales were doing, they'd want to…
31 January 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Six Nations rugby broadcasting
I'm grateful to you, Presiding Officer. I think rugby's played a central part in Wales for over a century. In many ways, it defined us as a nation. Many of the images of Wales would have been associated with rugby, and it's something that we all remember, in…
31 January 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee Report, 'Behind the scenes: The creative industries workforce'
It is important and it is impossible, in my view, to pretend that we can have a culture strategy that doesn't involve the people who work in the sector. You simply cannot. Culture is about people. Culture is about who we are as a people. A strategy should be…
31 January 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee Report, 'Behind the scenes: The creative industries workforce'
I very much agree with the final point that was made by Heledd Fychan. I, like others on the committee, am very much grateful to the Welsh Government for accepting most of the recommendations, but profoundly disappointed that the Welsh Government has not…
31 January 2024 , Plenary
Topical Questions
I think we will all, in all parts of the Chamber, welcome this week's agreement to restore devolved Government in Northern Ireland. I suspect that many of us will appreciate that the people of Northern Ireland have suffered enough as a consequence of the DUP…
31 January 2024 , Plenary
Topical Questions
2. Will the Counsel General make a statement on the implications for Wales of the agreement to restore devolved government in Northern Ireland? TQ974
31 January 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales inquiry: Panel 1 - Welsh Perspective
And so must opposition parties and the media.
31 January 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales inquiry: Panel 1 - Welsh Perspective
So, going back to my original point about culture within the public sector, there is that need for a more entrepreneurial—I don't want to put words in your mouth—culture within the public sector to actually deliver on the ambition and potential of the…
