, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Yes, that's been reflected in the correspondence we've received from interested parties—that it was someone entirely independent to Welsh sport. So, can I ask what is Sport Wales's role now with the ongoing investigation? Do you take a step back, or will you…
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Okay.
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Is that why you've got a retainer with them?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Can I ask you, just at that point, have you used them before, then?
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
When we interviewed the chair and chief executive of the WRU a couple of weeks ago, they said that they'd engage with Sport Wales to lead and support the independent review that they're introducing. They made mention of Sport Resolutions—an arbitration…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
My question was specifically about that £20 million of capital funding for community-focused schools. It was referenced in the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee—if I've got that right—which looked into how…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
6. Will the Minister provide an update on support for community-focused schools? OQ59083
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Debate: The Draft Budget 2023-24
I sincerely withdraw and apologise for using that term. It was intended, in the heat of the debate, to make a political point. It was flippant and it was indeed inappropriate. In fact, given the fact that one of Plaid Cymru's councillors in Caerphilly had…
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Debate: The Draft Budget 2023-24
There's a lot of difficulty, I think, with Plaid Cymru's approach to this, and it's inconsistent with what they're saying locally.
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Debate: The Draft Budget 2023-24
I'll tell you what I'll do; I'll withdraw the word 'pointless'. I wouldn't want to be the subject of a point of order later on today. I withdraw the word 'pointless' and I apologise for that. What I should have said was 'politically convenient', because what…
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Debate: The Draft Budget 2023-24
I fully agree with the reform of council tax, but, on a band B property, the proposed rise in Caerphilly—the lowest council tax in the whole of Gwent, if not the whole of Wales—is £1.91 a week. The proposal that he's putting forward for basic rate of income…
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Debate: The Draft Budget 2023-24
I'll try and keep it short, Dirprwy Lywydd. I might not succeed. This is a debate in two parts really, isn't it? It's a debate that comes from the committees' responses to the draft budget, and the committees making reasonable points, cross party, that are…
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Debate: The Draft Budget 2023-24
Given the uncertainty around that last statement about independence, isn't that one of the greatest risks you could take with the economy?
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Debate: The Draft Budget 2023-24
Will you take an intervention?
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Debate: The Draft Budget 2023-24
I'd like to know what it is. I'd like to know what it is, that's all. And it's not—.
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Debate: The Draft Budget 2023-24
I say to Peter Fox, I'm not trying to score a political point here. I just would like to ask—[Interruption.] No, I'm really not. What is the Conservative policy now on universal free school meals? What is your current view on that particular policy?
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Debate: The Draft Budget 2023-24
Will you take an intervention?
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Questions to the First Minister
That's very helpful to know. In the last 15 months, two Caerphilly residents have been killed by dangerous dogs. One was a 10-year-old boy, the other was an 83-year-old woman. Both were in the community of Penyrheol, which has been hit by these two tragic…
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Questions to the First Minister
6. What steps is the Welsh Government taking to improve animal welfare? OQ59099
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
I just wonder if they'd be interested in some of the answers you've given today and some of the things you've raised.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Just a very quick question. If you were invited to give evidence to the external taskforce, would you accept?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Yes, okay.
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
So, therefore, the mechanisms that existed for you to have direct engagement would also therefore have been broken.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
I think one of the things that Ieuan Evans conceded in a very honest and direct evidence session was that the WRU's relationships with key stakeholders were broken.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
As an independent body, the Welsh Government's relationship with the WRU is probably one more of culture than structure, so there are no recognised mechanisms given that you're not a direct funder. So, how often did you meet with the WRU? How often do you…
