12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Absolutely, absolutely. So, just looking now at Part 2 of the Bill—
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Good morning. In the middle of a climate emergency and a nature emergency, do you accept that no change is not an option?
12 October 2022 , Plenary
Short Debate: Education maintenance allowance: A lifeline in the current crisis
I thank Luke Fletcher for bringing this debate. I think it's really useful to remind us that the EMA hasn't been uprated since 2004; it clearly buys a lot less than it used to that long ago. It is a vital—. Even the reduced amount that it currently buys, is…
12 October 2022 , Plenary
Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report: Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals
—as well as giving those services the workforce, the productivity and efficiency savings that such systems can and should deliver. This will make for a much more interesting and less stressful job and therefore will impact positively on our retention systems…
12 October 2022 , Plenary
Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report: Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals
Thank you for pointing that out, because that was something that was picked up by Audit Wales as well, in their report. They said that less than half were recording whether the discharge was complex or simple, and less than a third of hospitals were recording…
12 October 2022 , Plenary
Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report: Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals
I recall about 10 years ago the then chief executive of the Cardiff and Vale health board telling me that in the Heath hospital—our tertiary hospital—the average age of patients was 84 years old, and I very much doubt that that age profile has changed. So, I…
11 October 2022 , Plenary
Debate on the General Principles of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill and Motion to agree the financial resolution in respect of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
As Delyth Jewell has already said, we now know that there are plastics in breast milk in about 70 per cent of the cases. So, this is obviously just the latest iteration of the problems we've created for ourselves, because it will also be in powdered milk…
11 October 2022 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I just wanted to pick up on the earlier remarks by Jane Dodds today, because, having listened to the Iranian people living in Wales, on the steps of the Senedd, I think it was really clear the level of anger about the lack of action by the UK Government…
10 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Now, under Standing Order 17.42, I'd like to invite Members to agree to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting. I see no dissent, so hopefully we can just get the signal from the technicians that we're in private.
10 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Papers to note
There is one paper to note, which is correspondence from Oxfam and the Women's Equality Network Wales. Are Members agreed to note that paper? We'll come back to it another time.
10 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Prynhawn da. I'd like to welcome Members and members of the public to this meeting of the Equality and Social Justice Committee. This meeting is being held in a hybrid format with some Members on the Senedd estate and others participating virtually via…
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Okay. I think my colleague has some questions.
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Okay. What’s extraordinary is that people are replacing the tiles on their roof, but no solar panels going on the south facing. I find it very difficult to understand. How are we going to get over that? These are people who can afford to get people up on the…
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Okay. Anything else, Catherine, you want to add on the next iteration of the Warm Homes programme?
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
All that was clear from your written evidence.
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Okay. One of the issues highlighted in the Audit Wales analysis of the Warm Homes programme was that a barrier to the air-source heat pumps or heat pumps is that the programme only funded the device. It didn't fund the decoration that may be required if…
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Okay, but the net-zero skills plan isn't due to be published until December, so we're a little bit behind the curve, aren't we? Skills will travel—they'll go to England if we don't have the work for them.
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
I agree with that, but isn't the issue that, unless you have the insulation as well, you'll actually see an increase in your bills?
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Yes, okay. Catherine, in your paper, you've identified that there's a very different approach going on between the UK Government and the Welsh Government, and the Welsh Government wants to identify a fabric-first approach to retrofit, before we put in heat…
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Okay. Thank you.
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
So, we don't know whether they are actually doing it.
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Just one final thing on use of data, which is that the energy companies themselves already use smart meters to analyse where vulnerable citizens might be a cause of concern. So, for example, a housebound person who suddenly is not using energy might be an…
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
What we do know is that fuel poverty is concentrated in the private rented sector, and also rural properties, which are largely off grid. So, that's what we know in terms of that's where we need to be focusing, recognising there is still some fuel poverty in…
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Thank you.
5 October 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Or indeed rent.
