, Plenary
Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report: 'Annual scrutiny of the Future Generations Commissioner: An update'
Thank you very much. So, we started by hearing from Mark Isherwood, as Chair of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee. Obviously, lots of warm words about the importance of this work. What I didn't hear from your contribution was a timescale…
, Plenary
Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report: 'Annual scrutiny of the Future Generations Commissioner: An update'
So, to remind you, then, in November the Equality and Social Justice Committee held a joint debate with the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee on the implementation of the Act, reflecting the work of the auditor general and the Public…
, Plenary
Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report: 'Annual scrutiny of the Future Generations Commissioner: An update'
Diolch. The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 is getting noticed, both by other nations and by Welsh organisations not covered by the Act. For example, I was delighted to see that NFU Cymru's future agriculture policy was framed in the context…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 2
Thank you. I just want to come back to the point made by Joyce: the importance of not allowing local authorities to dispose of their council farms as they're really useful training grounds for people who can't afford to buy a farm. But I just wanted to ask…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Okay. Just lastly, in light of all the complexities that you've outlined, when do you expect to publish the net-zero skills plan?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Just briefly, what role does the minimum energy efficiency standard play in this drive to decarbonisation? How does it link in with what the UK Government is thinking about this?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
So, where are we at on low-cost loans for private sector landlords? There's low risk for the lender, because you can put a charge on the property so that the public sector gets back its money if they sell the property. Isn't that one of the ways—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Okay. So, I just want to go back onto how we raise the game of the sectors. There has been a lot of emphasis on improving the social housing sector, and all that's excellent, but the biggest area of problems is the private rented sector and, of course, the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
—because of the rise and rise of gas prices.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Right. But you accept that we are between a rock and a hard place—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
I accept absolutely that it takes time to evaluate and get the learning from the ORP, but, in the meantime, why is it not possible to insulate, because everything comes back to insulation? You cannot put in air-source heat pumps unless you are not heating the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Thank you. The First Minister told us in Plenary yesterday that the Government has no capital, no people with the right skills and too complex a landscape to be able to deliver any sort of emergency insulation programme for those who are the most vulnerable…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Okay, thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
That's one thing, but the other is our ambition to ensure that more Welsh interests are developing the resources—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Okay. I just wanted to come back on what you were saying about commercial interests already buying up sections of our oceans on a speculative basis. These are people with deep pockets. What, if anything, can the Welsh Government do to prevent global interests…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Okay. I—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change - session 1
Yes, please.
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for that information. As the constituency with the highest number of private sector renters, I know that they are really shivering in all winters, and with bills expected to rise to nearly £3,000 a year per household—something that we have no…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
1. What plans does the Welsh Government have to insulate the most energy inefficient housing? OQ58189
, Plenary
Debate on the Report of the Special Purpose Committee on Senedd Reform—Reforming our Senedd: A stronger voice for the people of Wales
Is it not the case that half the people on your benches are constituency representatives and half are list Members? So, whilst I applaud the virtues of the constituency link, you already have half your Members who are list Members.
, Plenary
Debate on the Report of the Special Purpose Committee on Senedd Reform—Reforming our Senedd: A stronger voice for the people of Wales
I'll come back another day.
, Plenary
Debate on the Report of the Special Purpose Committee on Senedd Reform—Reforming our Senedd: A stronger voice for the people of Wales
Okay. Okay, thank you.
, Plenary
Debate on the Report of the Special Purpose Committee on Senedd Reform—Reforming our Senedd: A stronger voice for the people of Wales
I think this idea of having a referendum on the method of election is completely ridiculous, because I recall in 2011 people asking me, 'How should I vote on this referendum?', because they absolutely did not understand what it was about.
, Plenary
Debate on the Report of the Special Purpose Committee on Senedd Reform—Reforming our Senedd: A stronger voice for the people of Wales
Well, I was in the Senedd in—. I wasn't in the Senedd in the earlier, third Senedd, but I'm not aware of any proper scrutiny of decisions by either Andrew Davies or Ieuan Wyn Jones approving and then scrapping plans, and I can't recall any proper scrutiny of…
