, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 8: Prohibited single-use plastic products: power to amend (Amendments 7, 29, 30, 31, 64, 32, 33)
I think if you want to trade in Wales, you've got to adhere to Welsh law. So, I welcome amendment 7, which, it seems to me, isn't putting the cart before the horse. It is a legislative commitment to consult all stakeholders to ensure that we're not…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 7: Interpretation (Amendments 23. 56, 17)
I would oppose the amendment proposed by Janet Finch-Saunders to delete the words 'designed to be used for cosmetic application or personal or animal hygiene' because these are then potentially going to be disposed of in the general waste system, whereas the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 6: Products made of oxo-degradable and oxo-biodegradable plastic (Amendments 54, 55, 58, 59, 60, 24)
I don't think that this is well thought through, Janet Finch-Saunders, because you admit in what you say that there is no underlying definition of exactly what we're talking about here. What we learnt from the consultation was that there is no clear…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 5: Exemptions in relation to carrier bags (Amendments 82, 57, 85, 86)
Well, I'd just like to say that I support Delyth Jewell's amendment 82. In my experience, nearly all medicinal products are dispensed by pharmacists in paper bags. I wasn't aware that they were continuing to use plastic in some cases. It does the job that's…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 4: Manufacture of prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 81, 83, 84, 67, 68, 40, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 44, 51)
Just in response to Delyth Jewell, the point you're making in amendment 81 is an important one: we don't want unforeseen consequences of people suddenly running around manufacturing straws, even if they're to be used elsewhere. However, we have to bear in…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 3: Exemptions in relation to straws (Amendments 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
Sorry, did you mean 22?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 3: Exemptions in relation to straws (Amendments 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
Just to say that I support the amendments that the Minister has proposed, which help to clarify that we're not trying to make it more difficult for those who actually need a plastic straw for medical or disability reasons. I think it's something that came out…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 2: Guidance, raising awareness and education (Amendments 6, 28, 34, 36, 37, 66, 46, 47, 49, 50, 80)
Thank you very much. Obviously, the whole Bill requires a huge change in behaviour in manufacturing processes, and we need to support industry to adapt their processes to meet Wales's overarching objective to reach net zero as quickly as possible. I very much…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
I don't think that this meets the bar of clarity and enforceability. Just because the Scottish Parliament has done something doesn't mean to say that it's right. I think we have to look at it ourselves. So 'conceived' has multiple interpretations. If you look…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Energy Policy
Personally, if we're going to not pass on the environmental risk and liability to future generations, I don't see how we can be building nuclear, because nobody knows what to do with all the waste that's produced, and that certainly is a way of passing on…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Improving the Energy Efficiency of Welsh Homes
—independent advice in order to do it. So, the question is why do you not think it’s possible to extend it to anybody who needs this free advice from the first year.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Improving the Energy Efficiency of Welsh Homes
Okay, so it’s £35 million for two years. Okay, that’s good. I think one of the problems we have is that people don’t know how to approach this—they’re not environmental experts. So, I welcome the fact that you are going to create this hub, but I’m concerned…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Improving the Energy Efficiency of Welsh Homes
Thank you very much for your statement. It poses as many questions as it answers, but it’s useful to know the information you’ve given. This funding of £35 million for the Warm Homes programme for the next two years, is that per year, or for the two years?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
We can always repeat the request.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Absolutely. Okay. Completely agree on that. So, just finally, really, do you think that this Bill should oblige Welsh Ministers to undertake impact assessments of future trade deals, even though we don't have devolved powers to sign trade deals?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
The point I was trying to drag out, I think, was that the carbon emissions in food also includes the transporting that's locked into it. So, the price of a pineapple at the moment doesn't reflect the carbon emissions. It's not a basic part of our diet, but it…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
We'll have to check.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Yes, but what's interesting is that they come lower.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
In the context of your anxiety, which I appreciate is reflected by the NFU and the FUW, that newly established trade deals may have serious implications for our farming industry, nevertheless, we all have our net-zero targets that we need to meet, and one of…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
I'm just quoting the 'State of Climate Action' report, which is obviously produced by a bunch of eminent climate scientists. But I think it brings us back to this whole issue of food security and the management of change. Because we know that the food that we…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Well, clarify—sorry.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Thanks very much. Simon was talking about the management of change, and given that the second objective of this Bill is to mitigate and adapt to climate change, I was interested to read that the 'State of Climate Action' report for this year, which was…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
I just wanted to pick up on the points that Simon was making about resilience, because some of the witnesses we've got coming in later on this morning, in their written evidence, have talked about the need to not just maintain and enhance the resilience of…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Stroke
I think you’re trying to compare apples and pears there. It’s about the speed with which you need to get an ambulance to somebody who is choking, compared with the speed with which you need to get to somebody who is having a stroke. I don’t think we are in…
