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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Summer shows and events
We’ll see you there. [Laughter.] Now, like big events such as the Royal Welsh, funding options are equally as important to smaller rural organised events. Now, this is why in March last year, because of the pandemic and because of the problems that smaller…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Summer shows and events
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you, Deputy Minister, for your response. I’ll get to what I’m going to say in a minute, but I think your words were very appropriate when you said what a fantastic and upbeat debate this is to have just before we all go away…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Basic Income and the transition to a zero-carbon economy
—for finance in future generations. Vote against this today, change the Welsh Government tomorrow, and we will all certainly have a much better and brighter future.
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Basic Income and the transition to a zero-carbon economy
Thank you. Wales has shown itself to be a world leader on much in the past. What is needed now is for this Welsh Government to reflect on the merit of its own people in how far they have carried Wales, but also how much further we can go. Today's politics…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Basic Income and the transition to a zero-carbon economy
At the end of the day, we should be looking to give people an equal opportunity, helping them to find work, bringing out the potential of everybody, not actually saying, 'Do you know what, we'll be a nanny state and we'll just hand it out to you anyway.'…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Basic Income and the transition to a zero-carbon economy
Seeing as it's you, yes.
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Basic Income and the transition to a zero-carbon economy
Our academics—[Interruption.] Our academics exported the ideas of liberalism and conservative ideology, fighting for land property rights, religious self-determination and cultural and heritage acknowledgment, and the right to speak the nation's mother…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Basic Income and the transition to a zero-carbon economy
I have not. Never. I won't see an independent—
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Basic Income and the transition to a zero-carbon economy
Well, we've had devolution for 24 years, with Labour, and Plaid Cymru propping them up. That's where it went wrong.
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Basic Income and the transition to a zero-carbon economy
Thanks for that contribution, but we'll have to beg to differ. As far as I'm concerned, you have failed the people of Wales as regards the clean air Act. We've got record high poverty levels amongst infants and children and low levels of investment in our…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Basic Income and the transition to a zero-carbon economy
Despite all the moans and groans here about how short of money you are from the UK Government, costing £20 million last month, it was announced that around 500 care leavers in Wales would now receive a fixed sum of money: £1,600 every month for two years, in…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Basic Income and the transition to a zero-carbon economy
We've had £8.4 billion during the pandemic.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Right. Okay.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
In June, the Deputy Minister stressed to me that local roads—and I know this to be true—are the responsibility of local highway authorities.Do you agree with me, though, there should be better working together? Because, for instance, the Welsh Government, I…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
I've just got a little—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Thank you, Chair. I read in the evidence from the Cardiff capital region transport authority that historical underinvestment in road maintenance has led to a very substantial backlog of repair and replacement totalling over £2 million. How far do you think…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Great. Thank you very much. And you've mentioned the Cardiff metro, but what about the other two? Does anybody have any view of how they're doing?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Thank you. And then, do you agree with evidence from the bus industry that metro schemes are currently too rail focused, and that the governance arrangements for these programmes as a whole are still very unclear?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Yes, thank you. Could you outline your views on the approach to the delivery of the three Welsh metro systems, and specifically whether the pace and approach to delivery can be considered effective?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
As local authorities, do you believe that e-scooters can be part of the mix of low-carbon, low-energy-using modes of transport to get around?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Well, it is, and it's all part of this bigger discussion, and it's a bit controversial. E-scooters—and I'll declare an interest, because I do have two e-scooters that we've used on the continent over the years—do fit, as far as I'm concerned, into the mix of…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Thank you. That's a good point you make. However, Tim, for someone from north Wales who—. I want to use the train on a weekly basis, but it's fair to say we do have some astonishing journeys, poor conditions, even down to—. Only the other day, when you have…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Thank you. On 26 May, we undertook a stakeholder evidence session and it was made clear to us that demand management was needed to recover passenger numbers, to reduce car use, and hit modal shift targets. What more do you think the Welsh Government could and…
