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Updates to previous petitions
Okay. Thank you, Peter. Would anybody else like to come in? No. Thank you. The students are to be congratulated for their hungry learners campaign. I was at a meeting with one of the colleges, Coleg Cambria, and they're feeding their students toast, because…
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Updates to previous petitions
Thank you. Any other comment? Okay. And we agree with that action. Okay, so we'll agree to close the petition. And it was a really good, comprehensive response, wasn't it, from the Llywydd. So, thank you very much. Thank you, Rhys. If we move on to item 3.5…
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Updates to previous petitions
Okay. Thank you very much. Moving on to item 3.4, petition P-06-1433, 'Stop the ban on GB News in the Senedd'. This was submitted by Mark Griffiths, with 309 signatures. Could I invite Rhys—?
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Updates to previous petitions
So, could we write to the petitioner, just to say that there should be a consultation this autumn, for him to look out for that, really? And we'll close the petition because action is actually being taken by the Government, which is good. We'll just keep an…
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Updates to previous petitions
A declaration of interest?
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Updates to previous petitions
Following the response from Government, the petitioner noted that any changes might not become law until summer 2025, which would be halfway through the season, but he'd be able to use the 28-day permitted rights for the first half of the year as well. So…
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Updates to previous petitions
Okay, thank you. Thank you, both. So, we're happy to close this petition and go forward. Okay, we'll just keep an eye on what political parties are doing and hope, going forward, we do have a more representative Senedd. Thank you. Moving on to item 3.3…
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Updates to previous petitions
Any other comments? Thank you, Peter. Yes, Vaughan.
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Updates to previous petitions
It sounds like it's a growing global situation that's impacting with this corporate takeover, and it seems to me that it needs to be regulated as well, so that you have fair treatment of staff, but out-of-hours access for everybody, and regulation regarding…
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Updates to previous petitions
Thank you. I'd just like to pull a little bit out of the information from Unite. So they've done a lot of work on this and supported the workforce of Valley Vets, who are in dispute with VetPartners, saying it's 'the tip of the iceberg in the veterinary…
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Updates to previous petitions
We move now to agenda item 3, which is updates to previous petitions, which leads us to 3.1, which is P-06-1291, 'Hold an enquiry into the corporate takeover of the veterinary profession in Wales'. The submitter, Dr Linda Joyce-Jones, is here in the gallery…
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New Petitions
Okay. So, we will close the petition and forward the petition to the independent remuneration board, going forward. Thank you, Peter.
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New Petitions
Any more views? Do we agree with that?
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New Petitions
Thank you. It does say here there's a ministerial round-table with a stakeholders group. I think there are 21 members on that, and there are sub-groups as well. There was a little bit of misunderstanding as well, sometimes, as things were repeated, so…
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New Petitions
—I dropped you in it, while you were drinking a glass of water. I have agreed to cover this on behalf of Luke. Both the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee and the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee will be having a debate on this…
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New Petitions
Sorry. This is one that Luke was going to do. I'm sorry, I've caught you out. I apologise, Rhys—
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New Petitions
We move on to new petitions. Petition P-06-1461, 'Scrap the "Universal Actions" and payment reductions in the proposed Sustainable Farming Scheme'. 'The proposed "compulsory" 10 per cent planting of trees & 10 per cent reverting productive land to habitat…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you. I would just like to say, in relation to item 3.1, the petition regarding veterinary practices, that my sister-in-law works for a veterinary practice that has just been taken over by a corporate. And just regarding item 2.2, which is regarding…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
He has been asked to substitute on another committee and is unable to join us today. Are there any declarations of interest?
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
There are apologies from Luke Fletcher.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to this meeting of the Petitions Committee. The meeting is being broadcast live on Senedd.tv and the Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. Aside from the procedural adaptations for conducting proceedings in a hybrid format, all other…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good afternoon, everybody. A warm welcome to you all to this meeting of the Petitions Committee.
, Plenary
Short Debate: Filling the gaps: The case for training dentists in Bangor
I'd like to thank Siân Gwenllian for a minute of her time on this important subject. At the last try, there were no NHS dentists available in north-east Wales, and they were in short supply across the rest of north Wales, as has been said. Retention is…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Education funding
—like I said earlier in my speech, there are different measures, aren't there, on how children are managing.
