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Plaid Cymru Debate: Transport for Wales
And I hope that our debate this evening will help to set a new route forward. I look forward to hearing what others have to say in this debate.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Transport for Wales
I'd say that we need both. Certainly, there's nothing I would disagree with in terms of that we need the money. I believe firmly that we need those powers in Wales, because we shouldn't be at the hap and circumstance of whatever Government happens to be in…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Transport for Wales
Yes. I'll happily give way.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Transport for Wales
Now, I realise and I concede that a lot of the disruption to services at present is down to, in the south-east at least, preparing tracks for the metro and bringing in new fleets. I recognise that this will inevitably have an effect and perhaps more needs to…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Transport for Wales
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Where are we headed with transport in Wales? In what direction are we travelling? We've called this debate because there remain so many questions about timetables running over, missed connections and progress cut short. So much of our…
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90-second Statements
It is a celebration of Wales and our colourful history, of Newport and its communities, and it's an opportunity, perhaps, for all of us to think about some of the rights we are all too prone to take for granted. So, good luck to everyone who's going to be…
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90-second Statements
Next month, the Newport Rising festival will be held to commemorate the anniversary of the Newport Chartist rising. It will remember the thousands of Chartists who marched through Newport on 4 November 1839 in an effort to demand better voting rights and to…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Minister. For over a year now, the operators at Ffos-y-frân coal mine have been extracting coal illegally, against the decision of the local authority and in direct contravention of planning laws. I've raised in this Chamber before that because of…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
8. Will the Minister provide an update on the situation at Ffos-y-frân mine in Merthyr? OQ60148
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Business Statement and Announcement
There are a number of former industrial sites in the region that I represent that have been contaminated by toxic waste and are in dire need of cleaning up. There are ongoing risks to the public from some of these sites. I'd ask for a statement on how that…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
Members, we had agreed earlier that we would continue in private following this item. So, we'll just wait to hear that we are in private session, and that we can continue.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
Diolch yn fawr. Thank you.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
Well, it's stopped raining quite as heavily. At least we can't hear it any more. [Laughter.] So, I hope you've got a good umbrella anyway.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
And I hope that your visits this afternoon go well.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
Thank you very much. And on behalf of the committee, diolch yn fawr iawn, thank you very much for your evidence this morning. And I'm also very grateful for your offer that you would be willing to come back to the committee in the future and to keep an open…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
Thank you. And then finally, finally—and this might be something that you might want to write to us about because I don't want to put you on the spot—but in terms of the media Bill, what changes do you think that that could make to Ofcom's ability to require…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
Thank you. And then, finally, Llyr.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
Thank you very much for that. And as you were speaking, two Members indicated that they had supplementaries to what you just said, so I'm aware of time, but I'll go to Carolyn and then to Llyr and then we'll end.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
Okay, thank you. Thank you very much. Now, we do have just shy of nine minutes left before the Minister has to leave us. Were there any other questions any Members wanted to ask? Or if not, was there anything that you had hoped to put across that hasn't been…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
Okay, thank you. A predecessor committee of ours had called for commercial radio licensing to be changed so that it would require Welsh language content as part of those licences in Wales, and they also called to introduce a regulatory category of all-Wales…
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
That's useful. Thank you very much. And finally from us, on radio, could you talk us through whether you think that radio regulation accounts for the fact that Wales is a bilingual nation, that we have our own Parliament, that there is a Welsh Government that…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
I never had a doubt. [Laughter.]
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
I didn't expect that phrase to be uttered today.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
Okay. Alun, did you want to come in there?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: evidence session with the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries
Thank you. Okay. We are almost into our final quarter of an hour, and we'll move on now to Llyr.
