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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Thank you. Heledd, did you want to come in on this?
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
But you'd welcome more clarity on that strategy, perhaps.
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Tom, do you want that question to go to Oliver as well?
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Diolch. Amanda, did you want to come in?
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Berwyn, do you want to go first?
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Thank you very much for that. We'll move on to Tom Giffard. Thank you for being so patient with that last-minute change, Tom.
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Berwyn, did you want to come in on this?
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Berwyn or Amanda, did you want to come in on Hefin’s observation?
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Alun, did you want to come in on that?
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Oliver, do you want to go first on that?
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Tom, before you come in, I think Hefin wanted to come in with a supplementary to this.
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Thank you very much for that. Did you want to come in? No. We'll move on to Tom Giffard.
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Diolch, Berwyn. Is there anything that you'd like to add in terms of—? From what you know of what the Welsh Government is doing with this model, is that something that you think should be replicated in terms of other country relationships?
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Diolch, Amanda. Berwyn.
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Thank you. And finally, before we move on to another Member, as part of the inquiry that we're undertaking, we're trying to ascertain whether the Wales-Ireland model that the Welsh Government has in terms of the priority relationships that the Welsh…
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Diolch. Thank you, Amanda. Oliver, from your perspective, please, would you say, firstly, that the majority of the work or any collaboration that you have that would link Ireland and Wales together would fall outside of the formal, structured co-operation? If…
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Okay, diolch, Berwyn. I appreciate your answer. Amanda.
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
And if I could ask you on that—diolch, Berwyn—would you welcome being more formally in the mix of this? Or do you think that, by the nature of the strategy, it doesn't bother you that your work isn't directly in it as much? I don't want to lead you in my…
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Diolch, Alun. We appreciate that this is a baptism of fire for you, Oliver, in lots of ways, because you're new to the role, in coming straight in at the deep end, if I can mix all of the metaphors there. So, we do appreciate the fact that you're here. What…
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Oh, okay, Amanda, you've put your hand up.
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Berwyn, do you want to go—?
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Okay. And Berwyn.
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Amanda.
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Shall we go to Oliver first this time?
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Wales-Ireland relations: Evidence session with higher education and business representatives
Okay. Great. Thanks for that. We'll move on to Alun Davies.