, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Welsh Language Commissioner: Evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Well, I would be surprised, let's say.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Welsh Language Commissioner: Evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Thank you, Tom. I'm going to bring Sioned in shortly. I was very pleased with the way that you answered previous questions, because I do think that promotion is the great challenge facing us. You can create endless standards, but if people don't feel…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Welsh Language Commissioner: Evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Hefin, are you content with that? You are content. Tom.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Welsh Language Commissioner: Evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Thank you very much. Hefin.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Welsh Language Commissioner: Evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
You'll be leading, so you'll be making the decisions.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Welsh Language Commissioner: Evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
What do you mean by that, because the Measure is in place?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Welsh Language Commissioner: Evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Thank you for that. You say that you haven't had an opportunity to meet the office yet—I understand that. But what are your hopes for the post? We all make an application for these sorts of things. Hefin is going to come in in a minute, but I'd just like to…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Welsh Language Commissioner: Evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Efa, I'd like to welcome you to this meeting. As you know, we conduct these pre-appointment hearings for every public appointment. It's an opportunity for you to explain to us what your hopes, what your expectations are, and also for us to ask you some…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
May I bring the meeting to order? This is a meeting to discuss the appointment of the Welsh Language Commissioner. I'd like to welcome Efa Gruffudd Jones to the meeting this morning. I will be chairing the first four items on the agenda today, as temporary…
, Plenary
Voting Time
My screen said that I had permission to vote and that the vote hadn't been closed when you called the result of the vote. Does that mean that my vote wasn't recorded?
, Plenary
Voting Time
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, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you very much for that response, Minister. I very much welcome the statement that the Minister made some months ago, and it would be useful to hear an update from the Minister on the progress that's being made, to ensure that children and young people…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
8. Will the Minister make a statement on specific Welsh Government initiatives to narrow the poverty gap in student attainment following the pandemic? OQ58537
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you very much, First Minister. We woke up this morning of course to the news from the Institute for Fiscal Studies that there's an unfunded £60 billion hole in UK public finances as a consequence of decisions taken by the UK Government—not as a…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
1. Will the First Minister make a statement on the potential impact of the UK Government’s economic policies on public services in Blaenau Gwent? OQ58545
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
But that's what a parliamentary democracy does.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
I was thinking of the Fire Safety Bill, or Act, when I said that. But it's not true to say that you'd have to wait a number of years. The Standing Orders of the Senedd give the Government the right to expediate legislation to provide for emergency…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
That is not true—
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
I completely disagree with that, Counsel General, because you're putting law on the statute book without any democratic scrutiny, and that is unacceptable. It's always unacceptable. I can see where it happens. LCMs used to be—I'm too old nowadays I think—but…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
I disagree, you see—
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
But do you think it's our job to tell London about the United Kingdom and how the United Kingdom operates or is governed?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
Permanent Secretary, that's simply not true though is it? Devolution didn't happen last year; it's been in place for 20-odd years. If you are telling me that people have reached—. Most people in the civil service now, who've reached senior level, have been in…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
Can I stop you there? Because that legislation isn't just pulled out of a hat, it doesn't just appear like a Christmas present; it's been developed, it's been written and you've had policy instructions sent to lawyers, to council, to write that legislation…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
So, have you raised these issues?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
I wish you the best of luck with those inter-governmental arrangements. Can I ask the Permanent Secretary—I understand that all Permanent Secretaries meet on a weekly basis to discuss issues around aspects of Government—do you, or your counterpart in…
