, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Global impact of domestic consumption
Diolch, Llywydd. This debate is about the responsibility we hold for the actions we take and the reverberations of that responsibility as they stretch and swell across the globe. It is a debate about the impact of our actions, the consequences that our…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 10: Offence of supplying prohibited single-use plastic product (Amendments 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 38, 13, 14, 39, 15, 16)
Yes, please.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 9: Future policy arrangements: Single-use plastics pollution strategy and Reusable Products Taskforce (Amendments 35, 65, 48, 79)
Yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 9: Future policy arrangements: Single-use plastics pollution strategy and Reusable Products Taskforce (Amendments 35, 65, 48, 79)
Yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 9: Future policy arrangements: Single-use plastics pollution strategy and Reusable Products Taskforce (Amendments 35, 65, 48, 79)
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I would speak to amendments 65 and 79. The purpose of these amendments would be to establish a taskforce that would provide advice on the affordability of reusable products. It would require Welsh Ministers to make regulations to establish…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 8: Prohibited single-use plastic products: power to amend (Amendments 7, 29, 30, 31, 64, 32, 33)
Yes, please.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 8: Prohibited single-use plastic products: power to amend (Amendments 7, 29, 30, 31, 64, 32, 33)
Diolch, Gadeirydd. I speak to amendment 64. The Minister has set out the purpose of the amendment in her own remarks. It would require Ministers, when they're determining whether and how to expand the scope of the items listed, to take into account any…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 7: Interpretation (Amendments 23. 56, 17)
Yes, please.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 5: Exemptions in relation to carrier bags (Amendments 82, 57, 85, 86)
Yes, please.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 5: Exemptions in relation to carrier bags (Amendments 82, 57, 85, 86)
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Well, I really welcome everyone's comments on this. Jenny, I thank you for your comments. I agree that paper does the job. Joyce, I agree with you about the principle of double wrapping here, and, Minister, I really welcome what you've just…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 5: Exemptions in relation to carrier bags (Amendments 82, 57, 85, 86)
Diolch, Cadeirydd; hello again. The purpose of lead amendment 82, which I move, and the consequential amendments to it, or the related amendments, would be to remove the current exemption that exists for carrier bags used in medical settings. Friends of the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 4: Manufacture of prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 81, 83, 84, 67, 68, 40, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 44, 51)
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Thank you to Jenny for your comments. The purpose of it was not to be knotty—[Laughter.]—but I do take the point that you were making with that. I welcome the Minister's comments, particularly about what you've offered in terms of working…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 4: Manufacture of prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 81, 83, 84, 67, 68, 40, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 44, 51)
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Yes, I move these amendments. The purpose of my lead amendment 81 and the consequential amendments to it—83, 84, 67 to 78—would be to bring this legislation in line with Scottish legislation, by banning the manufacture of the items listed…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 2: Guidance, raising awareness and education (Amendments 6, 28, 34, 36, 37, 66, 46, 47, 49, 50, 80)
Diolch, Gadeirydd. I speak to amendment 66 and consequential amendment 80. The purpose of these probing amendments would be, as the Minister has already touched on, to establish a taskforce centred on improving awareness raising and education about the perils…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
I would wish to move it to vote, please, but I do appreciate very much what the Minister has said about working together on this for the future stages.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
Yes, please. Move.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
Diolch, Cadeirydd. My amendments in this group would also serve to tighten the definition of 'single use' in this legislation. I start with amendments 61 and 62 to ensure that 'single use' would cover all possible scenarios, in a similar way to what's been…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Energy Policy
This statement is very timely as COP27 happens in Egypt, as we’ve just heard. This morning, I met young people as part of Youth COP Cymru, which is arranged by Size of Wales, and it's clear to me that reducing carbon emissions is a priority for them in order…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, I'd like to ask for a statement outlining the Welsh Government's position on restricting the sale of fireworks, please. We've just had bonfire night, and as with every year, countless animals have been desperately frightened by the noises and the…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Trefnydd. This week, as you've alluded to, world leaders are in Egypt for COP27, to discuss how the world can avoid disaster. They do so against the backdrop of warnings from the UN that the planet is on track towards being an unlivable world, and…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
2. How is the Welsh Government working to engage young people in decisions relating to tackling the climate emergency? OQ58684
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Thank you. Diolch. Diolch, Cadeirydd. That was helpful.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay, well, that's also useful. Thank you for that. Jerry, if I may, in section 4.6 of your paper, you ask whether the Bill could be 'amended to ensure monitoring and reporting on the impact of felling consents that is equivalent to the requirements for…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
That's quite powerful, actually, the language that you were using there in terms of the ethos surrounding it. On a good or bad day, are there any examples of where you think this kind of thing is got right that we need to be learning from?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Good morning to you both. I think a measure of this has already been covered, but I'll just check for completion. Anthony, if I may, was there anything further that you wanted to add to what Jerry was saying—in addition to what Jerry had…
