, Reform Bill Committee
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No, he's not, because he's quite categorically informed us it's the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership who will be in charge of the other Bill.
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Perhaps the question is: what discussions have you had with the Government about looking at how it all fits in?
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I am.
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Have any other Members got a question? We're coming close to the end. No. I have got one I'm thinking of. We all know that this is a Bill, and there's a second Bill coming, which we anticipate. Has the Senedd Commission considered the implications of a second…
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Well, that's a question as to what that means as well.
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Can I go back to section 19 of the Act, which is the review aspect, and the Act talks about the Senedd establishing a committee to review? It doesn't refer to the Welsh Government having a responsibility to review. Now, I appreciate the Senedd committee would…
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I didn't want to touch on that.
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Yes, okay.
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Darren.
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I exclude myself as Chair of the Llywydd's Committee.
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Heledd.
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Particularly as previous witnesses referred to the fact that they should not be party politically involved, and there should be independence, and there should also, perhaps, be a single term. I just wondered what your views were in relation to that, and then…
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Okay, let's say 'should there be?', because we pre-appoint quite a few other posts, and this is an important part of the review in one sense, because they are reviewing the boundaries, and it's an element of how that progress is moving. So, should the Senedd…
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Well, we would all hope that. A question on the relationship between the proposed democracy and boundary commission and the Senedd, because I think it's proposed that, perhaps, there should be pre-appointment scrutiny by the Senedd. Or should there be…
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Jane.
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I understand the current situation, because clearly there are two ways of being elected to this current Senedd, which is the constituency first-past-the-post or the regional, and therefore a recall would have to cover both agendas. But in a proposed closed…
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Should there be a recall in the Bill?
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That opportunity also applies to party lists, which I think the Bill states should be eight, but it's a very strong possibility that Members on that list either leave that particular party or are no longer resident in Wales, for example, and so it could…
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Darren, did you want to come in?
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So, should there be a grace period as a consequence of that, so that people aren't disadvantaged because of an error they had no input into?
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Would you be able to provide us with a list of those posts you think would be affected by this consideration? Okay. I'll come back to Deputy Presiding Officers later on. I think one of the big issues that is being raised is the residency issue and also the…
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Okay. And have you identified any possible unintended consequences of this? We always talk about Bills and we always want to look at the unintended consequences of parts of legislation. Have you been able to identify any unintended consequences?
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So, those figures have been adjusted.
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Okay. Frequency of elections was not part of the recommendations from the special purpose committee. It's gone from five to four. You and I know that it went up from four to five anyway, because of other aspects. Were you consulted on the frequency? Has the…
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I appreciate what you're saying, that there's a lot to be decided upon by the next Senedd as a consequence of this, but because this Bill actually is putting a requirement and duty upon things for the next Senedd to do, should we be ensuring that there's…
