, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 3: marine planning and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
It was just following on, really. We know that in November, Baroness Brown of Cambridge said that a thoughtful approach to sea bed spatial planning was required and required now. So, I don't want to rehearse—it's just how we can go about making sure that the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 3: marine planning and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
My final point on this, Chair, is that you're talking billions. These are big companies; we're not talking pennies here. So, why can't Welsh Government actually find some way whereby—? I know we want to keep it delineated, as we've mentioned, but surely, with…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 3: marine planning and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
I want to try and get back to the thrust of my question, but I suppose now I'll have to declare an interest, because, yes, I do have a boat. And I'm just really keen—. My question was, in particular, about the marine spatial planning, that working with…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 3: marine planning and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Okay.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 3: marine planning and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Don't all rush at once. [Laughter.]
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 3: marine planning and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Yes, thanks, Chairman. Good morning, everybody. I think, as I outlined during panel 2, you've been jointly calling for a cross-sector statutory spatial plan that addresses the cumulative impacts of all these marine developments. And, further to earlier…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Yes, I just wonder—. When I speak to energy companies, they say, 'Oh yes, we agree on that,' but I know that, as you rightly pointed out, the NGOs believe that a spatial plan rather than ad hoc—. They see it as big schemes being allowed on an ad hoc basis…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
You may be aware that I've been very concerned and calling for the introduction of a spatial marine plan to address the biodiversity concerns around such energy productions. RSPB and other conservation groups have actually stressed that the Wales national…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Thank you, Jessica.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Thank you, Chair, and good morning. Jessica, in your organisation's written evidence to the UK Parliament's Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry, you estimated that there is 6 GW of tidal range resource in Wales. Now, given that the Welsh Government has conducted…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Thank you, Chair. We know our fabulous Welsh seas contain seagrass, salt marsh and seaweed blue carbon habitats, which do assist with massive carbon capture, but they're also well positioned to bring research and some employment benefit. In Yorkshire, a…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Thanks.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
I know many of the conservation groups that I've spoken to are very concerned at the absolute humongous number of very, very large wind turbines that are coming off the north Wales coast.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Good morning. In a letter from marine energy link last year, concerns were raised that, as the Environment (Wales) Act 2016 does rely on the section 158 definition, there is this discrepancy between the aim to promote sustainable management of natural…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Food poverty
Population growth.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Mental health services
The harrowing testimony of overworked front-line staff in this report and some of the scandalous content should give all officials and Government Ministers pause for thought. It is plainly unacceptable that a report of this importance, formed from 700 pages…
, Plenary
Debate on petition P-06-1208 New laws to protect rare red squirrels from habitat loss which causes population decline
I'd like to thank those who've brought this petition forward, and I want to put on record my thanks, really, to my colleague Darren Millar who has been a sterling champion of the red squirrels. It's important that we, as champions—I know Mark Isherwood…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Minister, it is abundantly clear from your responses that, alongside failing to facilitate a much needed house building boom in Wales, you are actively supporting guidance that is holding the sector back. The urgent need to see more new homes delivered is…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. Minister, on the one hand, you see yourself capable of going into competition with some of our finest builders using taxpayers' money, but, on the other hand, you are actually holding back on the number of homes that we are able to build due to…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Good afternoon, Minister. Now, in a recent virtual round-table I held with Propertymark, it was predicted that there's going to be a huge increase in people looking for rental properties. And I would like to refer Members and members…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, just this weekend, towns and communities across north Wales, and probably the whole of Wales, tried to steel themselves against yet another torrid onslaught of very stormy weather. My local authority, Conwy County Borough Council, took several…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: The Homelessness Action Plan
Will you commit to meeting with me away from the Siambr so that this commissioner proposal can be discussed in some greater detail, ensuring that policy action reflects the priority required to tackle, once and for all, the root causes of homelessness? Diolch.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: The Homelessness Action Plan
Yes, I am doing.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: The Homelessness Action Plan
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. As a declaration of interest, I would like to refer Members and members of the public to my own register of interests. Minister, the deepening homelessness crisis in Wales is devastating and isolating for far too many in our society…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I'd like a statement from the climate change Minister, please, about storm Arwen. As many of you will know, 30,000 homes were left without power, Transport for Wales suspended the majority of its rail services, we lost church windows in Llandudno, and…
