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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
Can I just come in? Can I just come in? You're saying competency—thank you. That's not fair, okay. I've worked with highway officers as a cabinet member, and in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Flintshire, highway officers need to have black and white legislation for…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
No, that's—. No. I did say it's a complex issue. It took five years when we did a speed limit review locally, so it would just take too much time to start again, so we need to work with what we have now. So, a local road that is outside riding for the…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
We carried out a speed limit review when I was a cabinet member in Flintshire. You have to do them so often because of new developments, accidents and petitions, local petitions. It took about five years to do, drawing up plans, consulting, writing and…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thank you for the answer, Minister. This month, thanks to Welsh Government investment support, the new North Wales Medical School at Bangor University has welcomed its first intake of students, which includes a mix of school leavers and graduate entrants…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
1. How is the Welsh Government encouraging people to join the NHS workforce in North Wales? OQ61574
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Motion under Standing Order 26.79 to withdraw the Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill
I understand the reasons presented but would like to speak to the motion as a woman with 20 years in politics. My children were young when I started at community level, and I lobbied for the cohort that I belonged to—for play provision, childcare and…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales: A new partnership to transform our railways
I welcome the statement. North Wales relies on funding from Westminster for maintenance of the network, and many services are cross-border and Chester station is fundamental, I know, to north Wales. As a regular passenger, I can say that the increase in…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
I was pleased to be invited by Cruise Wales, along with other north Wales Members, recently to visit their Regent Seven Seas Navigator cruise ship in Holyhead during recess, alongside the Minister responsible for tourism, Jack Sargeant. It was really…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with environmental organisations
Thank you for that clarity.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with environmental organisations
Oh no. [Laughter.]
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with environmental organisations
Can I just ask this, just quickly? Are any of them on the—? There's an SFS working group or panel, isn't there? So, is WEL on that or—?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with environmental organisations
So, DEFRA has developed criteria to provide clarity on which areas could credibly count towards 30x30, and have mapped the areas. Do you think this is needed for Wales, to have that mapping?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with environmental organisations
I know. Sorry.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with environmental organisations
There's the local places for nature fund as well, isn't there, for local authorities. I think that's under scrutiny as well, creating nature corridors.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with environmental organisations
Yes, of course. The biodiversity deep-dive highlights that the first stage of the Nature Networks map has been completed. How far does this go towards co-ordinating data on protected sites and assessing the 30x30 target?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with environmental organisations
Have you any experience of the Nature Networks fund, and if so, what are your experiences of round 4?
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Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with environmental organisations
I saw a very good scheme of tree planting along a river's edge, which I think was the wildlife trust working with the landowner, and it was fenced off, as well, to protect it from livestock, from the cattle, which was—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with environmental organisations
Alex, you said earlier about making sure that legislation and everything is supported for the environment and biodiversity when we look at other policies such as the SFS, going forward, and there has been push back, hasn't there? I said earlier, to the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with environmental organisations
There was a statement saying you need to capture social benefit of conservation and retention activities, community work and connecting people—that was what Chloe said. We went to the seagrass project, didn't we, in Porthdinllaen, and it's really good. So…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with environmental organisations
It's the buy-in you need, not the—. Okay.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with environmental organisations
You keep saying that you want the Welsh Government to lead on it, but I don't understand what you mean by leading on it, because WWF and all these organisations, you're the experts in the field, and if you can get the funding in place to do the work and to…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with academics
So, I wanted to say: have you any experience of innovative funding models for nature restoration levering in private finance? There's mitigation, sometimes, isn't there, on different offshore wind developments, for example.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with academics
I'm leading to that question.
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Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with academics
All those areas mentioned earlier that are managed by the Wildlife Trust, Plantlife Cymru, the non-governmental organisations, and then local authorities as well manage some of the AONBs, all publicly funded, which—. We're struggling for that money. So, we've…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with academics
There is an urgency to reverse biodiversity loss. Do you think a way forward to drive that would be using our national parks, areas of outstanding natural beauty, sites of special scientific interest, Ramsar sites, public open spaces?
