, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
There's part of me that sympathises with you when you say you don't wish to be too prescriptive, but, as a constituency Member, I'm aware there are a number of pre-applications in my constituency and it's extremely disruptive to the community because they…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
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, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
—in terms of conversations post the refusal of consent.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Yes. But it would be useful for us to understand the relationship that you're having—
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
So, it would be useful for us to see how that—
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Okay. I'm grateful to you. Chair, I don't have any further questions at the moment, but it might be useful if the committee asked or followed these matters up with the Minister. Because the issue around Sewel and consent is one of the themes that we've been…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
So, the Bills both fit together, effectively?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
I'm grateful to you for that. Of course, one of the advantages, ironically, of taking this amount of time is that you can take advantage of changes that take place in the legislative framework and landscape, of course, as you move forward, and one of those is…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
I understand that and we're not trying to catch you out. But we're trying to understand the work of the department and how that interacts with both the legislation and then the public responses to that legislation.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
So, you would have been ready to go prior to now?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Yes, I understand.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Okay. That's clear in my mind. I'm grateful to you. Is there a reason why it's taken so long, because five years is a long time to be developing legislation, particularly of this sort, which is, as you say, quite technical? Usually, time is taken in…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Okay. The consultation, I understand, took place on this Bill quite some time ago now, in 2018. It'd be useful for us to understand the timings. Because we're in the second half of 2023 in discussing this Bill. To what extent has the Bill developed, shall we…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
I don't think that we require that quite this afternoon, Nick will be pleased to hear. Okay, that's quite useful to know. It might be useful, Chair, if the Minister could write to the committee with an outline of the fields, rather than all of the different…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Give us the short version this afternoon, Minister. Be gentle with us.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you very much and good afternoon, Minister. The explanatory memorandum in the Bill states that the Bill will establish the aspirations of Welsh Government to take on further devolved policies. That's something I very much welcome; I felt that the last…
, Plenary
Emergency Question: Net Zero
This, of course, is populist politics at its very worst. It's the dog whistle of politics. It is a desperate last chance for a desperate Prime Minister and a desperate Government, and I've said to the Conservatives before and I'll say it again, don't be…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Green energy
Thank you. I can see she's coming to the end of her remarks; I wanted not to miss it. There are a couple of questions I asked you in my contribution about community benefit and about the intensity of development. I'd be grateful if the Minister, if she can't…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Green energy
Will you take an intervention?
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Green energy
I am coming to a conclusion. And by doing so, we have buy-in from community, buy-in from people who host developments, buy-in from the wider national community, and I hope that the sort of running away from responsibility that we're seeing in London today is…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Green energy
This is a Parliament, not a Government, remember. Let me tell you this: I've told Ministers in this place that they should be making statements here and not via the media. I've done that time and time again, where necessary. But I do not remember a single…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Green energy
It's quite something to be speaking in this debate at the same time as the Prime Minister is trashing the policy in London, and to do so in a way, a day after Parliament has risen for recess, to avoid scrutiny—now this is a Johnsonian school of governance…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
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, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
I'm grateful to the Chair of the committee for the report. Paul Davies has always led the committee with a determination to hold governments to account and he should be congratulated on his leadership there. But the fundamental issue here, of course, is the…
, Plenary
Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill
Minister, I very much welcome the statement you've made this afternoon and I very much welcome the legislation that you're bringing forward. And, Minister, I wouldn't be too disturbed by the Conservatives' opposition to this. They, of course, have fought…
