, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of the Arts Council of Wales
Lovely. We'll go on to Alun Davies.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of the Arts Council of Wales
No, certainly. Before I hand over to other Members, if I could just ask: with a role like this, with all of its challenges, what would be the thing that you would be most keen to get stuck into?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of the Arts Council of Wales
Now, Maggie, if it's okay, we'll go straight into questions with you. Welcome to the session this morning. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and also why you wanted to go for this role?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of the Arts Council of Wales
We'll move on to item 2, which is the pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of chair of the Arts Council of Wales.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you, Maggie. Thank you for that.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you for that, Alun. Does anyone else have declarations of interest?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning. I'd like to welcome Members to this meeting of the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee. Are there any declarations of interest? I'll go to Alun.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you to Sam for pointing that out, something that has been published on Twitter too, but I'll return to that in a moment. It is encouraging that the biodiversity deep-dive commits to bringing forward legislation that sets general targets for nature…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Our natural world is precious and in order for us to understand how important it is that we protect it, we have to first understand how under threat it actually is. There's been alarm about reports that the BBC won't be broadcasting an episode of Sir David…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I'd like to call for a statement, please, from the Government recommitting Wales's stance on welcoming refugees. The ugly and dangerous rhetoric that's been used in Westminster about stopping the routes that desperate people are being forced into using…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
After waiting for an ambulance for hours, when people get to hospital, there are often no spare beds, leaving them waiting outside for more hours. One constituent of mine's elderly mother was recently held in an ambulance for 15 hours after she suffered a…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for that.
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
5. What is the Government doing to limit the time that ambulances are forced to wait in queues outside hospitals? OQ59276
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The roads review
Thank you, Llywydd. I’m pleased to move our amendment. We need to do things differently if we want to reach net zero by 2050, and certainly if we want to be more ambitious and reach it by 2035, as we in Plaid Cymru have declared. We must make difficult…
, Plenary
Debate on the Petitions Committee Report, 'The Final Bend? P-06-1253 Ban greyhound racing in Wales'
Thank you for that contribution. I would, obviously, echo the point that Buffy made earlier, that there are many, many greyhound owners who really, really care for their dogs. I'm not trying to in any way insinuate that this covers all greyhound owners. I…
, Plenary
Debate on the Petitions Committee Report, 'The Final Bend? P-06-1253 Ban greyhound racing in Wales'
Yes, certainly.
, Plenary
Debate on the Petitions Committee Report, 'The Final Bend? P-06-1253 Ban greyhound racing in Wales'
Greyhound racing is cruel. It damages dogs; it causes them immense suffering; injures them, sometimes irrevocably, beyond any chance of recovery; and it kills dogs, sometimes immediately, sometimes years later—dogs who have become beloved family pets, who…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, I'd like to ask for two statements, please. Firstly, I'd like to ask for a statement of clarification about the clean air Bill. Last week's business statement refers to the Minister for Climate Change making a statement on the Environment (Air…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Industrial relations
Any dignity that is inherent in our society comes from the aspirations we hold not for ourselves but for others. That is the glory of the trade union movement and its grace: the fact that it's upheld not by individual greed but by collective endeavour, the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
I declare an interest because my mother is one of the Women Against State Pension Inequality women. The WASPI women—women denied their pensions—have been campaigning for seven long years and still await the parliamentary ombudsman’s resolution report into the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
1. What legal advice has the Counsel General provided to the Minister for Social Justice regarding the steps the Welsh Government can take to assist women who were born in the 1950s that were refused their pensions? OQ59187
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Welsh Government roads review and funding for Wales' bus networks - scrutiny of the Deputy Minister for Climate Change
But this isn't just from the industry though. In terms of, again, getting that model shift and getting the public buy-in, because 75 per cent of the journeys at the moment are made by bus, do you—? I recognise the points that you're making, but do you see…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Welsh Government roads review and funding for Wales' bus networks - scrutiny of the Deputy Minister for Climate Change
Yes, final question. There are some technical things that perhaps we could write to the Minister about.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Welsh Government roads review and funding for Wales' bus networks - scrutiny of the Deputy Minister for Climate Change
No, that’s really welcome to hear. Thank you for that. You were mentioning earlier about the investment that has been put into TfW, and obviously all of us want to see public transport generally having that investment. Roughly 75 per cent of all public…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Welsh Government roads review and funding for Wales' bus networks - scrutiny of the Deputy Minister for Climate Change
Thank you for that, Minister. If we can delve into that, actually, a little bit further. You’ve quoted a number of times a figure of, I think, £150 million in terms of what’s been spent on supporting the bus industry during the pandemic. Could you tell us—?…
