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Post-EU regional development funding: Funding beneficiaries
Yes. So—
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Post-EU regional development funding: Funding beneficiaries
Yes. I've just been speaking to Dr Francis Cowe of the University of South Wales—so, this is for Amanda and for James—and he told me about the USW strategic alliance with partner FE colleges. Isn't that a vehicle that would resolve some of those issues, James?
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Welsh Government international relations: scrutiny of the First Minister—continued
Thank you, Chair.
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Welsh Government international relations: scrutiny of the First Minister—continued
And you used your probably more considerable soft power than you've got formal power—you used that. You told us in the Senedd that there were two follow-up actions from Qatar: to organise a visit for a group of women museum educators to Wales, and to support…
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Welsh Government international relations: scrutiny of the First Minister—continued
I fully agree, and this is tricky territory, and it is very difficult, on an international stage especially, for a small country. But you think about Uganda and the LGBTQ+ legislation that is regressive—hugely regressive. Are those universal values, though…
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Welsh Government international relations: scrutiny of the First Minister—continued
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Could I ask the First Minister how he's reflected on Wales's responsibility as a globally responsible nation, following his visit to the Qatar world cup? Some time has passed now to reflect on that. Has that had an impact on how he sees our…
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Post-EU regional development funding: Local Authorities
Just to close, Chair, I think underpinning all of this, and Multiply is a good example, but underpinning all of this, is the lack of structure, and it isn't helping these people in front of us deliver what they need to deliver. I don't think anyone's going to…
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Post-EU regional development funding: Local Authorities
I think it was something the Prime Minister thought up on a car journey one day, but that's another view.
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Post-EU regional development funding: Local Authorities
Iawn. Does Councillor Gibson-Watt—? Do you want to add anything to that? I think it sums things up nicely, really, doesn't it?
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Post-EU regional development funding: Local Authorities
I think it's also underpinned quite neatly by the views of Councillor Dyfrig Siencyn, because the answer isn't to carry on as informally as we are. There needs to be structures underpinning it, and I think you're in a massively challenging place unless those…
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Post-EU regional development funding: Local Authorities
Okay. And I think that comes back to the whole problem with this whole set of funding, and Councillor Rob Stewart said, where you've got unspent money, the sensible thing would be to carry it over, but we know the UK Government have not got a good track…
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Post-EU regional development funding: Local Authorities
So, what's the solution there? How do you resolve that?
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Post-EU regional development funding: Local Authorities
Diolch, Gadeirydd. I wanted to just come back to something that Councillor Norris said about the Multiply programme. I think, in answer to Victoria Howells, that you said that there were challenges in the delivery. Could you just elaborate on that please?
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Post-EU regional development funding: Academics and think tanks
No, all I'd like to say is the quality of the evidence has kind of negated my questions, because it's been a superb session as far as I can see. So, I'm just going to say 'thank you'.
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Wales-Ireland relations: evidence session with Members of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly
Okay, thank you.
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Wales-Ireland relations: evidence session with Members of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly
I should say I've heard some really good things about the visit last week. I'm sorry, I couldn't make it, but unless I had brought my five-year-old and seven-year-old daughters along, I wouldn't have been able to get there. But it did seem like a very…
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Wales-Ireland relations: evidence session with Members of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly
With an eye on the future, and BIPA's future plans, can you give us some advice, as experienced parliamentarians, on how this committee could work to maximise Wales-Ireland relations, and also how we could fit in with your future plans?
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Neurodivergence Improvement Programme
As James Evans did, I'll declare an interest here, as my daughter is autistic, and she's currently in receipt of public care—she's in a resource base. I've lived the challenges that the Deputy Minister's mentioned today, and I feel that a lot of what's been…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
On Friday, 31 March, I visited Caerphilly Miners Centre for the Community, which, of course, is the former miners' hospital that has been converted into a community centre through the work of Katherine Hughes and her team, and it's now a local community…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you for that.
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
1. Will the Minister provide an update on the Welsh Government's strategy for tackling loneliness and social isolation? OQ59406
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
We were very grateful for the First Minister's visit back in, I think, January time, when he came to see the garden and the need to upkeep it. He saw at first hand the local volunteers and the Aber Valley Heritage Group, and the work that they do in…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
3. What support will the Welsh Government provide for the Welsh National and Universal Mining Memorial Garden in Senghenydd? OQ59408
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Questions to the First Minister
I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome over 20 Caerphilly Ukrainians who are in the gallery today, and they've, of course, been displaced by the terrible war in Ukraine and they're very welcome here today. I'd like to follow on from Llyr Gruffydd's…
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Group 2: Equal Status of the Objectives (Amendment 5)
No.
