5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
I would welcome that.
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
I've heard Ministers time and time again saying this is unique to Wales, it doesn't happen anywhere else in the world. Well, sometimes there's a good reason for that, of course. I'm not convinced that being unique is actually always a good thing just because…
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
No, fair enough.
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
I want to challenge that, because, yes, it is outwith the scope, perhaps, but you are the experts; you are the people with the expertise and the knowledge, and you keep these collections for us. I think, rather than waiting for the Government or some…
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
And there's a million people there.
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
I'm just challenging the—
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
There's a question mark at the end of it. It's not cynical at all; it's based on looking at this country as a country and not simply pretending that we're achieving things that we're not in reality, and I think we've got to challenge ourselves.
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
There was a question mark—
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
This is a Welsh disease all over, it's it? We're just going to give everybody a piece of jam and everybody's hungry. That's the reality of it. I've sat here for 16 years listening to these sorts of things, and ticking boxes so that we cover north, south…
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
—and to talk about your plans as organisations. I think that would be very good for us as a committee.
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
I agree with these touring exhibitions. I don't have a problem with that. I'm sorry to cut across again, but I do think that it would be beneficial, if possible, Chair, for the committee to be able to visit the museum and the national library to see the work…
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
But the truth is, when you distribute these things, you don't distribute them across the whole of the nation, because people aren't going to travel from Blaenau Gwent to Anglesey or Pembrokeshire in order to see something as part of a wider exhibition, but…
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
Well, that's not the question, with all due respect, Kath. The question is the ability for a parent to take a child to see our national collections during the school holiday or with a school trip, or for me to do so, when I've been working in town and I can…
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
I'll be asking them too. But when I look at the collections that we have—. I took my son to the national museum over the past holidays. I wanted him to see La Parisienne and the impressionists and so on, and it's gorgeous and it's a beautiful space, walking…
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
You're very agile there. Pedr, what about the national library?
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
It sounds to me as though you're using a definition that allows you to select what you show.
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
—because 'contemporary' usually relates to people alive today, not people who were alive 80 years ago.
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
But it's not the usual definition—
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
That isn't the usual definition, though, is it?
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
So, how would you define that?
5 July 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
National contemporary art gallery: evidence session 1 - delivery partners
Thank you. I'm reading this report, which was published around five years ago now, or something like that, and I'm not entirely sure whether I understand. One of of the advantages of being a politician is that you can ask quite stupid questions, and I don't…
5 July 2023 , Plenary
Short Debate: The military's footprint in Wales: The armed forces' importance to Wales’s identity
I'll add my gratitude to Samuel Kurtz for tabling this debate this afternoon. It is a fact, of course, that something like 12 per cent of all of our armed forces are from Wales. It is important that we see this reflected in our own country, and in the bases…
5 July 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee Report—'The legislative framework that supports Welsh-medium education provision'
I enjoyed this inquiry, as it happens. Very often, committee work can be very difficult, and I hope the Minister will be pleased to hear that there was a great deal of agreement among our witnesses. Everyone, more or less, agreed that the WESPs had already…
4 July 2023 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Procurement Bill
I welcome you to the committee that you just referred to. I disagree with the blanket policy of opposing every LCM, but do you agree that this doesn't reflect the problems of the Welsh Government, rather it reflects that Westminster is developing policy…
4 July 2023 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Procurement Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. The committee considered memorandum No. 6 at our meeting yesterday and laid our report immediately afterwards. We drew three conclusions and made four recommendations. We agree with the Welsh Government's assessment that the provisions…
