6 July 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch. Minister, I want to have a look at the revised role you envisage for local planning authorities and Natural Resources Wales in this new consenting process. What are the risks and benefits of removing those projects between 10 MW and 49 MW from the…
6 July 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Well, there are obviously concerns about land banking or seeking permission in order to prevent somebody else from doing something else. But the citizen feels really quite powerless in all this. And I think it's difficult, when you've got very large companies…
6 July 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay, well perhaps we need to change the law on that. [Laughter.] So, I think the problem is how you have meaningful engagement without holding things up forever. There's a certain new hospital building in Cardiff North that's being held up by Natural…
6 July 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay.
6 July 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. Perhaps we need to change the law. [Laughter.] Well, I thought if you'd produced the energy locally, the—
6 July 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
But this is all part of the problem, isn't it? I mean, I absolutely understand that—that just repeating something isn't going to get you where you—. But it does require both sides to be listening to each other and being prepared to be flexible. I suppose my…
6 July 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. I'm sure the committee will want to take up that challenge and thank you for that.
6 July 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Large infrastructure companies, who are the ones who are going to be the subject of this structure, are not known for speaking human or, indeed, being particularly transparent about the advantages and disadvantages of a particular proposal and how it'll…
28 June 2023 , Plenary
Debate on petition P-06-1340, 'Stop the change of speed limits to 20mph on 17th September'
Yes, I would just say, on the public not supporting this, certainly I can only represent my own constituents, but I can say there's overwhelming support in an urban place like Cardiff for increasing road safety by having a default 20 mph on most residential…
28 June 2023 , Plenary
Debate on petition P-06-1340, 'Stop the change of speed limits to 20mph on 17th September'
Choosing the firefighters as an example is really undermining your case, because, if somebody is having to attend to a fire, it's a 999 call; clearly, they are going to be travelling at a lot more than 30 mph. And as for the timed visits between delivery…
28 June 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, '60%—Giving them a voice: Speech, language and communication needs in the youth justice system'
Thank you very much. I think all the speakers emphasised the social justice issues around this particular issue, starting with Altaf Hussain, Sioned Williams and Jane Dodds in particular really emphasising the difficulties that young people have. If they…
28 June 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, '60%—Giving them a voice: Speech, language and communication needs in the youth justice system'
Thank you very much, Mark Isherwood, and thank you for your historic memory. We need to continue to have this conversation, and we have suggested that there is a need to convene a summit before the end of this calendar year. It has to be a summit or some…
28 June 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, '60%—Giving them a voice: Speech, language and communication needs in the youth justice system'
Yes.
28 June 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, '60%—Giving them a voice: Speech, language and communication needs in the youth justice system'
Thank you very much. Too many people with speech, language and communication needs, whether diagnosed or not, end up in the criminal justice system, where the support they receive is patchy and inadequate. This report aims to give a voice to those young…
28 June 2023 , Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal—A civic duty to vote Bill
Thank you, Adam Price, for introducing this Bill. I think it's really important. I really worry about the fact that we only had a 46.6 per cent turnout in the last Senedd elections, in 2021. Granted, it was the highest it's ever been, but let's compare that…
28 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
I'm aware that Cardiff Council has worked closely with the Museum of Cardiff as part of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan' to ensure that museums are not perpetuating an uncritical eye towards our approach to our colonial past, and that's a very important…
27 June 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being: Update on healthy food environment legislation
I know you're a resilient Minister, and you will need to be, because you're up against it here. We spent the twentieth century trying to persuade the tobacco industry to stop selling lung cancer to people, through cigarettes, and it's only through regulation…
27 June 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Tribunal reform and Wales’s evolving justice landscape
Thank you very much for all the considerable work that you are putting into demonstrating how we could deliver a justice system closer to the people of Wales once we have those powers. I particularly welcome your decision to ensure that anybody excluded from…
26 June 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Motion under Standing Orders 17.42(vi) and (ix) to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
I'd now like to ask Members to agree to hold the rest of the meeting in private, in line with Standing Orders. Thank you.
26 June 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Papers to note
There are three papers to note. Are Members content to note these three papers? Thank you.
26 June 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Prynhawn da. Welcome to the Equality and Social Justice Committee meeting. We're a bilingual institution, so there is translation available from Welsh to English. I've had no apologies for this meeting, so therefore there are no substitutes. Are there any…
21 June 2023 , Plenary
Topical Questions
The BBC has dug out the fact that at least 411 mentally unwell people were deported between 1950s and the early 1970s, but, as the UK Government has less than comprehensive records, it could involve many more British citizens from the Windrush generation. So…
21 June 2023 , Plenary
Topical Questions
2. In light of recent revelations, what discussions has the Welsh Government had with the UK Government regarding how many members of the Windrush generation from Wales with chronic and mental illness were deported? TQ801
21 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
Thank you for that. As the Commissioner is also a member of the climate change committee along with myself, you will be aware that the Climate Change Committee's latest progress report on Wales to achieve our targets in 'Beyond Recycling' reminds us of our…
21 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
9. What progress has the Commission made in reducing the amount of food waste generated on the Senedd estate this year compared with the comparable period last year? OQ59711
