7 June 2023 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Full devolution of water resources
Thank you, Llywydd. Thank you to everyone who's taken part in our debate this evening. We heard from Janet about the important work that Dŵr Cymru has been doing, particularly in assisting vulnerable customers. It is important to have that.
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Full devolution of water resources
I look forward to hearing the views of others in our debate.
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Full devolution of water resources
Water has played a part in our industry. Our waters washed the coal clutched from the earth by our grandfathers' hands, but industry stained the waterways too—those mountain streams dyed black with soot, the legacy of mining that still desecrates our dales…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Full devolution of water resources
Because water casts a spell over the psyche or spirit of our nation, and any debate on water in this Senedd—a Senedd, some might argue, that came into being because of the row over Tryweryn—is impossible without mentioning that bitter history. There are some…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Full devolution of water resources
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Our debate this evening has many courses flowing into it. Their torrents direct us towards our future as a nation even as they are propelled by our past. There's the tide of territorial integrity; the constitutional right that, I…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Blue carbon habitats
These habitats protect our coastline; they act as natural buffers that shield our shores from rising sea levels, from erosion, from storms. It isn't just the nature emergency that we need to keep in mind here, vitally important though that is, but the climate…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Blue carbon habitats
Blue carbon habitats are hugely significant when it comes to the struggle against climate change. These coastal ecosystems have the ability, as we've heard, to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and to store it in sedimentary layers. They can…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee Report—'The Welsh Government’s EV charging infrastructure strategy and action plan'
I'd like to thank the committee team, our Chair, and our interim Chair for their work. And as we've already heard, with the need to move towards sustainable transport becoming ever more pertinent as a subject worldwide, the adoption of electric vehicles is a…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you for that, Minister. I wonder if thought could be given to seeing, where decisions are made planning-wise that are in the context of the climate and nature emergency, whether any change could be made or whether there's a global precedent for…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch, Llywydd. I'd like to ask you, please, about some national issues that I think arise from what's happening in Ffos-y-fran mine in Merthyr. A few weeks ago, the local authority rejected an application for an opencast mine to continue operating…
25 May 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and for the following meeting (7 June 2023)
I propose in accordance with Standing Order 17.42 that we resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of today's meeting. Are Members content to do so? I see that they are. We'll wait to hear that we're in private session.
25 May 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
Members, we'll move on to the papers to note, which is item 4. Thank you once again. There are three papers to note: 4.1 is the PEACEPLUS programme for 2021-27; 4.2 is the Welsh Government's draft budget for 2023-24; and 4.3 is on international agreements. Is…
25 May 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: evidence session with Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism
Diolch. Thank you so much.
25 May 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: evidence session with Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism
Thank you very much. Excuse me. We've come to the end of our questions, unless any Member has an urgent question they want to ask. I don't see that there are any. So, may I thank you for your evidence this morning? A transcript of what has been said will be…
25 May 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: evidence session with Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism
In our final 10 minutes, we'll move on to Vikki Howells.
25 May 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: evidence session with Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism
Okay. We'll move on, finally—.
25 May 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: evidence session with Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism
We’ll have to find a donkey for our film as well, then.
25 May 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: evidence session with Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism
We'll move on to Heledd Fychan.
25 May 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: evidence session with Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism
Thank you. Before we move on, I just wanted to welcome the guests whom we have in the public gallery from the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar. I understand you're here with Amgueddfa Cymru. You're very welcome—it's lovely to have you with us.
25 May 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: evidence session with Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism
Thank you—diolch, Tom.
25 May 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: evidence session with Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism
Tom, I think that Heledd wants to come in on a supplementary.
25 May 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: evidence session with Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism
Okay, thank you very much. We'll move on to Tom Giffard.
25 May 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: evidence session with Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism
Thank you. Are you happy for us to move on, Carolyn?
25 May 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: evidence session with Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism
We'll move on to Carolyn Thomas.
25 May 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Challenges facing the creative industry workforce: evidence session with Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism
Great. Thank you very much. I hope that goes well. Thank you.
