, 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'm always delighted to hear the word 'dialectical'.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
Yes.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
Okay, and it would be useful if you could write to us on that.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
Yes. I accept that.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
Okay. Write to us on that.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
Right. This doesn't need to be so difficult. So, by how many—? What are the numbers involved here?
, 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, you didn't have, but now you do have.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
Of course it is, and in any Bill team, you'll have that; I accept that. I've got no issue with that. But the question was a different one. Do you have sufficient legal resource, enough lawyers, working in the Welsh Government to deliver on the requirements…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
Yes, I understand that, 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
Sorry, I wanted the Permanent Secretary, if I could—. I want to understand the situation. Do you have enough lawyers?
, 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 find myself in a curious situation here. People come into politics for many different reasons, don't they, but I never thought I'd go into politics to demand more lawyers. It appears to me, and I've sat on this committee for many more years than I can…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
Sorry, I want to pin you down on this because it's an important—
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government
Sorry, can I stop you there? A core that is higher than the number of individuals that you have. So, you need more people is what you're saying.
, 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 you appreciate that sometimes we find some of the responses from Government somewhat unsatisfactory? The Counsel General has just said that the people who are required in order to staff these functions are highly specialised—I think that's what you said…
, 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, is it your job to make sure the resources exist in other to deliver that?
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport, and Chief Whip: World Heritage in Northwest Wales
Deputy Minister, the culture committee visited Llanberis and the National Slate Museum in the spring, and we received presentations from people there about the work that was being done to support the world heritage status and how that's going to be built…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: The Cymraeg 2050 Annual Report 2021-22
I thank the Minister for the statement this afternoon, and I also thank the Minister for his leadership in this policy area. I spent some time in the Eisteddfod over the summer, and I was very impressed with the way in which you led the discussion, but also…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: Regional Economic Development
I’m grateful to you, Minister, for the statement. I'm also grateful for your continuing commitment to Tech Valleys and your previous commitments to the programme and its budget over future years. The macro situation we’re facing in Blaenau Gwent and elsewhere…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I'm grateful to the First Minister for that. At one level, of course, it's possible to ridicule the chaos that exists in Westminster at the moment: a Prime Minister that models herself on Margaret Thatcher—the lady who is not for turning is spinning like a…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
2. What assessment has the Welsh Government made of the impact the UK Government’s fiscal statement will have on people in Blaenau Gwent? OQ58496
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
I very much welcome the Government's robust interpretation of these matters. Thank you.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Okay. I'm grateful to you for that. Can I, finally, return to one of the points that Huw Irranca-Davies opened with and that Rhys ab Owen pursued, and that is the relationship between this Bill and the internal market Act on the subject of single-use carrier…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
I would expect any manufacturer to tell me if I'm putting plastic in my tea or not, and I think there's an issue there, perhaps, for another committee rather than ourselves. Can I return to human rights legislation? Because you do have a power here that…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Sorry, I'm—. In listening to your answer, I think it's—. I'm a bit concerned about having all that plastic in my tea.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
I'm very grateful to you for that. One of the issues that we came across—I was on the committee on single-use carrier bags at the time—was that of the public understanding, which I don't think, in retrospect, was there when we introduced it; I don't think we…
