, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Coal bodies
Thank you for that.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Coal bodies
I was going to ask you, firstly, to what extent you think that the Bill is needed. Some of you have already touched on this and spoken briefly about the legislative clarity that it might perhaps bring to some of your roles. But in the context of the fact that…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Coal bodies
Thank you. Good morning to you all.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
Yes, that's very helpful, thank you. And I think it would be unfair to put you further on the spot, because I appreciate that you were giving that evidence to us as a constitutional expert, rather than about the report specifically. That has been very useful…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
This is very helpful.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
Thank you. I utterly take that point and I won't pursue that further with you, because I appreciate that your expertise on this is not mining expertise, but that is very helpful, so thank you. Finally from me, please, a lot of what was originally proposed in…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
Hi, again. I want to ask you about risk assessments, if you wouldn't mind. I know that you had recommended that all disused tips should be subject to a risk assessment. The Bill, as it's drafted, splits it up and it makes provision for a preliminary…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
All right. Thank you very much.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
Okay. That's useful. Cadeirydd, if I may, just briefly—? That's interesting, that—. Would it normally have been the case, when you have done preliminary work like this, that you would have then been asked to be involved in the drafting? I utterly take your…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
Thank you for that. You've already indicated that the Bill is drafted in a way so that this could be incremental and that it would be phased in, or the non-coal tips would be phased in. In terms of the drafting, do you think that that provision would need to…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
Diolch. Bore da. The Law Commission's work has focused specifically on regulating coal tip safety, but the Bill establishes a new regime that would cover all disused tips. Do you think that this new regime would be suitable for all non-coal tips or do you…
, Plenary
Short Debate: Will the bells of Rhymney fall silent? Protecting community assets in the Valleys
We need legislation to protect these assets, ways to make it easier to bring them back into public ownership. Indeed, we need legislation that would ensure community ownership rights. That is what Cwmpas is campaigning for. And yes, a commission has been…
, Plenary
Short Debate: Will the bells of Rhymney fall silent? Protecting community assets in the Valleys
In Blackwood, 100 years ago, a miners' institute was opened for concerts and galas, to which was later added a library, auditorium, dancefloor and rooms for local societies. For a century, that building has stood as a cornerstone of the community, until the…
, Plenary
Short Debate: Will the bells of Rhymney fall silent? Protecting community assets in the Valleys
What is a community? Are the towns and villages where we live just places where we happen to have houses, or are there corners of congregation there still—spaces and sites that belong to us all? In the Valleys, we have a proud history of such buildings: the…
, Plenary
Short Debate: Will the bells of Rhymney fall silent? Protecting community assets in the Valleys
Thank you, Llywydd. I have promised to give Peredur Owen Griffiths a minute of my time.
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Brexit and the future relationship with the EU
Diolch, Alun. Would you agree with me that there are so many ways in which we can actually measure the catastrophic harm that has been done economically to us as a result of Brexit, but that—exactly what you've just been talking about—is one of the ways in…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Brexit and the future relationship with the EU
Would you agree that at no point in the campaign did anyone in the ‘vote leave’ campaign advocate for leaving the single market and customs union? In fact, there were a number of prominent members of that campaign who said of course we would never have to…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Now, as a committee, we had stated very clearly that these games should remain free to air, but we had recommended that if there were to be a change, that it was so important that this Government should take steps to ensure that the Westminster Government…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. The culture committee did report on this last year, as you've alluded to, and we recommended that the games should be contained and that they should be protected as free to air, to protect against this exact eventuality, and that was…
, Plenary
Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you for that. Living near a quarry can have harmful effects on your health. The Bryn quarry in Gelligaer has, reportedly, continued blasting operations, although its planning consent ran out at the end of last year. Residents living nearby have long…
, Plenary
Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
7. What guidance does the Welsh Government provide to local authorities to improve air quality for people living near opencast sites and quarries? OQ62191
, Plenary
Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
I agree 100 per cent with you on that. If the companies are still in existence, they have a duty to take on that responsibility. I would like to talk more about that fund and the possibility of reopening that particular source. But to return to the cost of…
, Plenary
Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you. That’s incredibly useful. Staying with the same topic, if I could ask about accountability, please. Because these substances have a nature that is indestructible, the clean-up is going to have to be robust. There will surely be a part to play for…
, Plenary
Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch, Llywydd. Prynhawn da. I want to ask some questions, please, about forever chemicals—the contamination, that is, that’s been left on landscapes across Wales by what are known as PFAS, these substances. These chemicals have been linked to severe health…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
We will now move into private session, and I propose in accordance with Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? Okay, we'll wait to hear that we are in private session.
