, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Okay. Let me just follow up and say this is strategically seriously important for the future of Wales, not only the carbon capture element of the marine, but also all the renewable energy, potentially, that we can develop as part of our zero-carbon plan. So…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Okay. All right.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Stop, stop. [Laughter.]
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
I'm going to leap back into the alphabet soup of the organisational—not literally. Sue mentioned that there was poor attendance at one of these groups. Isn't part of the problem that there are just far too many groups? I'm completely unclear as to how you, as…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Just very quickly, I'm keen to understand at what point do we need to start thinking of building the green hydrogen conversion facilities. I appreciate you haven't yet got a contract, but were you to get it, at what point would we need to be thinking along…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Okay. They told us that they are involved in various UK-hosted networks, which has given them access to quite a lot of expensive research, which they don’t have the resources to do, around deep-water developments. Is there anything else that you think they…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
We hope that reaps success for you. Jess Hooper, what's your experience in this?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Okay. But you will have read in NRW's evidence that speed of determination is mainly dependent on the quality of the information provided by the developer. So, are you confident that you'll provide everything that they need?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Looking more widely, what is it that Wales needs to do to ensure that we don't miss out on this really important way of decarbonising our energy?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
Okay. Obviously, we're not—. Are we going to have any control over the Crown Estate?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
David Jones, you warn in your paper that all our natural advantages are in danger of floating away—that things are not happening as quickly here as they are in other areas of the UK. So, I wondered, in talking about the Erebus project, if you can tell us what…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Okay, but you simply don't know at the moment.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Okay, but your excellent graphs seem to indicate that, if you start disturbing the bottom, you're eroding all the carbon—[Inaudible.]
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Okay, but you're basically telling us you don't know. Is that right?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
So, if the Welsh Government wished to take a precautionary approach and limit bottom-towed fishing gear being used in Welsh waters, they have the powers to do that as soon as possible. Is that right?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
I don't understand why we're not taking a precautionary principle here. Oceana has said, as I highlighted, that there's actually been a 10 per cent increase in the use of fishing with bottom-towed gear between 2019 and 2020. So, goodness knows what's been…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
I wanted to address the rather urgent issue of the relationship between dredging and bottom trawling and the state of our MPAs, because I am alarmed to understand that this sort of trawling is going on in all our MPAs according to Oceana, a non-governmental…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Thank you for that.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
I wanted to come in on the discussions you were having with the Department for Transport when you've got these very large proposals. Do they ever subcontract work to you, or has it not arisen yet? Because obviously, if they're responsible, they should…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
I'd just like to point out that my partner is doing some work for Bute Energy.
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Food poverty
I will bring my contribution to a close. This is a complex problem and there's a great deal more that we need to do, but at least feeding children in schools—all children—is going to at least ensure all children are properly fed.
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Food poverty
Thank you very much. Thank you very much for mentioning these people who are unable to turn on the cooker, because that’s something that I was told about when I visited the Building Communities Trust project up in Trowbridge and St Mellons recently—that some…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Mental health services
I'm very pleased to hear that you have faith in the new chief executive and the chair, but I just wondered if you would reflect on whether or not it is helpful to them, to improve the services that need to be improved in north Wales, by your shouting about…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
I note in Estyn's annual report that Ceredigion had very interesting outreach work with home-educated students, which enabled a lot of those children to be reintegrated into schools. I'm very pleased that you're giving additional money to family support…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
—from the police that there's been a huge rise in domestic violence, a huge rise in the number of children being pulled into county lines or other forms of exploitation, which were exacerbated by lockdown. So, do you agree with me that, whilst numerically…
