, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
But you appreciate that that's a significant risk, isn't it, that it could end up in the Supreme Court, and that the whole election of a whole new Senedd could be declared null and void because of the challenge to the system. It's a risk, right?
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
—you'll be able to share that the committee when it's available. Okay. Thank you very much.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
And just to be clear as well, that legal advice was based on the recommendation in the expert panel report, wasn't it, your previous legal advice, which was about gender zipping and male-female gender zipping, rather than any extension of the definition of a…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
Can I just touch on the issue of competence, then, if I may? This committee, through its legal advisors, has had very clear legal advice that the Bill is not within the competence of the Senedd. The Llywydd has also written to the committee, stating her view…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
The Minister seemed to suggest, and I don't think it was a satisfactory response, that the only way to resolve this is by going to court. So, if somebody identifies themselves as a woman at the time that they become a candidate, even though they might be…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
Jess, do you want to respond to this question about whether this is actually really advancing women's rights, or whether it's giving men more rights behind the back door, as it were?
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
That this is normal in legislation. This is a normal way to deal with things. It's normal. Well, it's not normal, is it, to ask whether you're a woman or not a woman? Usually you would ask whether you're a man or a woman, wouldn't you?
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
Sorry, Victoria. You said that this is 'normal' in legislation. Is it normal to ask someone whether they're a woman or not a woman, rather than, 'Are you a man or a woman?' Because I think this is the only example I can find, globally, of that question being…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
And, of course, we need more ethnic minority men in the Senedd as well, don't we, which this Bill also won't deliver. Can I just turn, then, to this issue of gender? Because there are two things, it seems to me, that are most contentious about this Bill. One…
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
Well, there's no guarantee on the face of this Bill that any women have to be selected as candidates who are from ethnic minority backgrounds. Nkechi, do you want to respond to that? You seem to suggest that the Bill would require parties to take some…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
How do you know? How do you know it's going to include ethnic minority women?
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
Thank you, Chair. Can I just pick up on this issue of this being a start of further diversity measures? These Bills come around very rarely. This is the first Bill of its kind in the 17 years that I've been in the Senedd to try and advance diversity in the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Thank you for that response, Minister, and welcome to your post. I'm absolutely delighted to be a supporter of the National Library of Wales. I paid a visit there just last week with my colleague Sam Rowlands. We undertook a tour of the new Wales broadcast…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
5. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the future of the National Library of Wales? OQ60948
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport: Priorities for Transport: Listening, partnership, making change
You've already answered the points that I was raising, if I may say so.
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport: Priorities for Transport: Listening, partnership, making change
It was a question that I tabled, actually.
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport: Priorities for Transport: Listening, partnership, making change
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Dirprwy Lywydd. Minister, can I ask you about the A494 in Pwll-glas and in Llanferres? You mentioned the need for appropriate speeds on appropriate roads. Clearly, the speed limit of 40 mph through both of those villages is inappropriate…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Can I call for two statements today, please, Trefnydd, with, first, an urgent statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Health on the prevention of future death reports in the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board? As you may know, the health board recorded…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister, for that response. Like others in this Chamber, I have been very concerned about the increase in antisemitism, and, indeed, in anti-Muslim hatred, since 7 October, even on our streets here in Wales. Now, one of the things that the…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
Thank you.
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
Thank you. And any comments from other witnesses about that? Yes, Professor Krook.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
It's the next woman on the list—
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
Just one final question, if I may, and it's back to what you said earlier on, Larissa, about vacancies. So, there's nothing in the Bill here that would require—. At the moment, if there's a vacancy in the Senedd, with the other reform Bill that's currently…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
Okay, no problem. That's me done, Chair.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
Okay. Any comments from—? Oh, we've lost—
