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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Thank you. We will move on to Carolyn Thomas.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
That's really helpful. Thank you. Hefin, was there anything else you wanted to come back on? No. I will just say for the record, I know that gymnastics is a fantastic sport. I'm not knocking gymnastics at all. We'll move on to Alun Davies.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
I think Steffan wanted to come in, forgive me.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
I hated gymnastics. I know that gymnastics can be absolutely wonderful, but it wasn't for me. But there were other things that I really enjoyed.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Hefin, I think, Steffan wanted to come in here, but, quickly, before I bring you in, Steffan, it wasn't in this inquiry but when we were doing the pre-appointment scrutiny of Baroness Grey-Thompson, a point that she made has really resonated with me and I…
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Great. Thank you.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Hefin, just before you come back in, I think Alun wanted to come in on something that the Minister just said, and then we'll come straight back to you, okay, Hefin.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Thank you very much. We'll move on to Hefin David.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Fantastic. Thank you very much.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Steffan.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Thank you for that. We had a really fascinating technical briefing from some colleagues from New Zealand a few weeks ago on this. It was fascinating, and one of the things that they highlighted was that Sport New Zealand has an individual hardship fund…
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
I think Neil wanted to come in.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Thank you for that, Minister. That may have anticipated, in a way, what I was about to ask. Sport Wales said something interesting when they were giving evidence at the beginning of our enquiry sessions on this. When they were talking about the gap in…
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
That's great, thank you. Thank you for that. Turning to some of the other areas, could you talk us through, please, whether you think that the funding for Sport Wales reflects the physical health impacts and the mental health benefits that can come about to…
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
It's just so nice to have a topic where everyone is—
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
I just notice that, any time this comes up in conversation, everyone ends up smiling.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
So, whenever there are developments, please keep us in the loop, and we're all obviously wishing the team the very best of luck.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Yes, interesting. Okay. Well, that's obviously something that the committee will be really keen to keep abreast of.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Oh, fantastic.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
I know—I was going to ask that too, yes.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Thank you. Alun, did you want to come in on that, or were you just—?
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
It's lovely to have you all with us. Thank you so much. If it's all right, we'll go straight into the questions. Firstly, could I ask, in terms of the thing that's on everyone's minds at the moment, the qualification of the men's team for the football world…
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Fantastic—lovely to see you.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Minister, could I please ask you to introduce your officials for the Record? Or, if you'd like to introduce yourselves, that's also fine.
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Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Good afternoon. Welcome back. We have some Members in the room and Hefin David and Altaf Hussain are joining us through video link. Altaf is substituting for Tom Giffard. We move straight on to item 7, which is our inquiry into sport in disadvantaged areas…
