, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you for that, Minister. Another way of doing that, of course, is utilising with our partners, like the rugby union, like the Football Association of Wales—I think Wrexham Lager had real success at the world cup in Japan—and making sure those avenues are…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I don't envy the choices Ministers have to make in this difficult budget—the draft budget and the main budget. I think Alun and yourself, Minister, set out some of the realities of why you're having to face these difficult decisions. I…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Apprenticeships
I'm grateful to Sam Kurtz for making the intervention. I must say, to stand here in the Senedd with a straight face and say that it is nothing to do with the premiership of Liz Truss is very brave and is dishonest, perhaps, of the Member, but fair play to…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Apprenticeships
Janet, I mentioned two Prime Ministers within that, and I reflect on Liz Truss's small premiership, where she absolutely crashed the economy. The reason we're having this very debate now about the difficulties we find ourselves in is because of that…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Apprenticeships
Of course.
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Apprenticeships
Diolch, Llywydd. Presiding Officer, I’m always glad to hear the passionate support for apprenticeships in debates in this Senedd. It’s particularly gratifying as the number of politicians who have been former apprentices is particularly quite low, and, as a…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Minister, Mark Isherwood and I have previously raised the holiday club support at Ysgol Pen Coch in Flintshire in questions to you here in the Senedd, and I was grateful for your intervention. It was an intervention that made a real difference to the…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Can I thank Ken Skates for bringing this important question forward? I recall, First Minister, raising this scandal on numerous occasions with the Counsel General on the floor of the Chamber, particularly the number of faults that had been exposed in terms of…
, Petitions Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
That does conclude today's public business. Can I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(ix), that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of this meeting? Are Members content? They are. Thank you very much. We will meet again on…
, Petitions Committee
Papers to Note
Moving to item 4 on today's agenda, a paper or note. We have a letter from the Minister for Climate Change to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee and to the Welsh Youth Parliament Members regarding learner transport. You will…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Diolch, Joel. I can see agreement on that item as well, so we'll thank the petitioner and close this particular petition.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Diolch, Peredur. Joel James.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Diolch, Joel. Are Members content? We perhaps make a suggestion to keep it open for 12 months and bring it back to committee and see where we are after seeking those updates and where the progress is there, as well. Okay. Item 3.6, P-06-1363, 'Save our Fire…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Diolch yn fawr, Rhys. I can see Members are content with that. And, again, I thank the petitioners from Cardiff University, in particular the students of Cardiff University, for their work on the issue as well, and congratulate them for making progress, but…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Diolch, Peredur Owen Griffiths. I can see Members are content with the idea. We'll bring it back once the consultation has reported. Just to note as well, all petitioners for 3.2 and 3.3, all the signatories to those petitions as well, have been made aware of…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Diolch, Joel. Any further comments from Members, or are Members content? I can see agreement from Members there, and again I'd agree with the Member's suggestion that we will write in the strongest terms to express disappointment that that meeting hasn't…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Item 3, updates to previous petitions. Item 3.1, P-06-1217, 'Open Long Covid one stop medical hubs / clinics', submitted by Lawson Webb with 1,214 signatures in total. I'll bring committee members in to discuss this petition and any actions they may wish to…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Diolch for the suggestion, Rhys. I can see Members in agreement. They are. Okay.
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Item 2, new petitions. Item 2.1, P-06-1367, 'Fund the removal of quarry rocks and the restoration of sand and groynes to Llandudno North Shore'. 'In 2014 Conwy County Borough Council dumped a further 50,000 tonnes of oversized and untested quarry rocks onto…
, Petitions Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Can I welcome everybody to today's hybrid meeting of the Senedd's Petitions Committee? As a reminder, this meeting is being broadcast live on Senedd.tv and the Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. Aside from the procedural adaptations for…
, Petitions Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
A warm welcome to you all to this meeting of the Petitions Committee.
, Plenary
Topical Questions
I'm grateful for the Minister's response there. Presiding Officer, I'm sure I'm not alone in this Chamber when I say I am sickened by the scale of injustice of the Post Office Horizon scandal. So many lives impacted, so many lives ruined. It is truly a…
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Topical Questions
1. What assessment has the Minister made of how the Post Office Horizon scandal continues to impact the lives of residents in Wales? TQ941
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Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, I am seeking time to be made available to discuss the impact of the Post Office Horizon scandal on Welsh residents and the lessons to be learned. Sub-postmasters were wrongly sent to prison, they were made to pay back money they did not owe, they…
, Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill on the regulation of debt collectors
Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd. I'm grateful for Members' contributions and the Minister's response to today's debate. I should also say, as John Griffiths pointed out, again, thanks to Citizens Advice Cymru, who have researched this topic for me and with me, and I…
