, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Issues facing Welsh Businesses - Focus on Hospitality, Tourism and Retail: Evidence session 2
Thank you, Chair. I’ll keep it brief. David touched about the green recovery there and the importance of it, which is something I wanted to touch on as well. Also, just regarding the economic contract, how has this driven behaviour change, if it has so far?…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Issues facing Welsh Businesses - Focus on Hospitality, Tourism and Retail: Evidence session 1
Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Issues facing Welsh Businesses - Focus on Hospitality, Tourism and Retail: Evidence session 1
Perhaps you could share with the committee what you have requested from the Welsh Government to make the contract more clear to businesses. Could you provide that in writing, please? Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Issues facing Welsh Businesses - Focus on Hospitality, Tourism and Retail: Evidence session 1
I just wanted to make a comment about the skills shortage. I talked to Coleg Llandrillo and they said that they offer courses for hospitality and tourism, and very often, there isn't always the market here in Wales for someone to move on. So, that's just…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
Yes. If we can store the wet liquid or rainfall for the drier periods, that would be fantastic. Okay, thank you. Sorry, thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
Thank you. Because concerned as I am about flooding, I'm also concerned about very dry spells as well with the changing weather patterns, so—
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
I just think that, if they're going through this process, if they've got the machinery there, going through the process, unless the aqueous is maybe looked at, is it worth doing—you know, the investment, which is a significant investment and takes time as…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
I visited a farm, and they were using a new machine, which had been funded by Welsh Government, a slurry separator. It separated the slurry, the liquid from the dry product, but the end product is still categorised as slurry. So, it still can only be spread…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
Okay, thank you. Can I also ask another question?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
So, would you be making these recommendations to Welsh Government, that using modern technology and predicting weather, that that could be or should be a way forward?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
Okay. So, it sounds like there is some flexibility there within the current guidance—or not?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
Thank you for that response.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
Thank you. At the moment, slurry spreading is prevented between October and February. Are you looking to review this, because we've got changing weather patterns now? I know that, last year, or this year, we had terrible flooding in March, and if you're a…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
Okay. Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
No, thank you. I think that that's okay. It's the same with every public body at the moment as well, though, regarding recruitment for any new legislation and duties. But I understand the importance of having the resources as well. Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
I could imagine that recruiting and training up people would be an issue as well, so—.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
Thank you, Chair. What are NRW's duties under the new regulations and have NRW been provided with sufficient resource to undertake these duties? Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
I always declare that I'm a councillor, just in case.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Language Commissioner’s Annual Report 2020-21 and Assurance Report 2020-21
Okay, so just a last question: what evaluation, if any, has been given by the commissioner in relation to the impact of Iaith Gwaith—I hope I pronounced that right—Working Welsh since its inception 15 years ago?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Language Commissioner’s Annual Report 2020-21 and Assurance Report 2020-21
Thank you for the detailed response. That was really good. What is the current progress status of the commissioner's five-year report? The annual report makes—sorry, notes—that the five-year report will be published in summer 2021. So, I guess with everything…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Language Commissioner’s Annual Report 2020-21 and Assurance Report 2020-21
Diolch. Just going back to the cyber attack on the commission's ICT systems, what were the cost and resource implications in order to rectify the commission's services? And to what extent are systems now secure for the future?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
No, that's fine. Thank you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Okay, thank you. Could you give me details of the current programme for introducing standards for the Welsh language, and also regarding regulations for, say, utility companies, such as water suppliers, regarding standards, and also regarding Transport for…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you. The funding to expand Welsh-medium provision in early years has been really welcome. Would you look at the Learner Travel (Wales) Measure 2008 as well, to see if you could change that and maybe make some funding available? When there are choices as…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
I am a councillor at Flintshire County Council.
