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Plaid Cymru Debate: Education funding
So, you think we're failing in Wales. Is that just based on the PISA results, then, that you're saying that? Because—
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Education funding
Will you take an intervention?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Education funding
I'd like to stress once again that PISA is just one measure of education and it does not take into consideration the well-being of our pupils. We need happy pupils who are engaged and willing to learn. Relentless testing and marketisation of education have…
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Debate on petition P-06-1474, 'Stop Natural Resources Wales closing Bwlch Nant yr Arian, Coed y Brenin & Ynyslas visitor centres'
Diolch. I'd like to thank the Members for their contributions. Janet questioned Welsh Government's spending priorities and NRW's business acumen, encouraging alternative solutions. Cefin rightly said that the number of signatures supports the popularity of…
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Debate on petition P-06-1474, 'Stop Natural Resources Wales closing Bwlch Nant yr Arian, Coed y Brenin & Ynyslas visitor centres'
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. On behalf of the Petitions Committee, thank you for the opportunity to introduce the debate today. The petition was submitted by Gareth Jones and closed on 9 September, with 13,247 signatures. The petition reads: 'Stop Natural…
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Debate on the Petitions Committee Report, 'Freedom to thrive: Free and accessible public transport for young people'
Thank you. I'd like to thank Members for their contributions. Peter Fox said that young people are our futures, and agrees affordability and accessibility is an issue, particularly in rural areas. Peredur mentioned the impact of the pandemic and austerity…
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Debate on the Petitions Committee Report, 'Freedom to thrive: Free and accessible public transport for young people'
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. On behalf of the Petitions Committee, thank you for the opportunity to introduce this debate today. The report we are debating was prompted by a petition submitted by Charlie Steven Evans. The petition closed on 18 July last year, with…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
Okay, thank you.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
I visited the national library recently in recess, and the royal commission was part of that building, and I am sorry, I’m very naive—I hadn't understood all that, and really fully understood what you did. So, it was very useful for me to attend as a member…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
How do funding restrictions impact on the ability to contribute across different policy areas, for example health?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
Maybe something that could be valid—
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
Can I just go back to having a charging model? So, local authorities charge for pre-planning advice to developers. Is that something that you might be able to take forward in the future?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
Okay. If you have a similar budget next year, and looking forward to the budgets, going forward, what would the impact be, do you think?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
With pre planning, wasn't that a chargeable service before, or—?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales (5)
A lot of public bodies have faced inflationary pressures for the last 10 years, or more. So, how are the pressures faced by the royal commission compared to that, do you think—to everybody else, other public bodies?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Maybe it’s something at UK level or—
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Excuse me. Have you tried to access funding from trusts or foundations?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Have you tried to access additional funding from trusts or foundations—you know, private funding? Is that something you've looked at?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Could you circulate those statistics? I love statistics. [Laughter.]
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
We learned at committee that, to encourage people in communities to take part in sport, if they had just somebody they knew, they could connect with, to actually lead them into it, that made such a difference.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Great, thank you.
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Since COVID, we've heard about a decline in volunteers coming forward. Have you seen a return of volunteers coming to help with various—?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
Can I just ask one final question?
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
I think in the past we've talked about the importance of access to sports and facilities for disadvantaged communities, and the findings were that having local access was really important—in community centres, village halls and local sports centres was really…
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Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with Sport Wales (4)
[Inaudible.]—any cuts to the NHS. They see the NHS as the NHS and the hospitals and the health boards. And when they might distribute funding to sports facilities through local authorities or whatever, or social health care, then it's criticised because it's…
