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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Net-zero Strategy
Thank you. Unlike Delyth Jewell, I found that the net-zero plan was absolutely packed with new facts, analyses and firm commitments, so I thank you very much for the rigour of the work that has gone into that very large report. I welcome the opportunity to…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
At this point, I would like to recommend that, under Standing Order 17.42, we exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting and conduct the rest of the meeting in private. Is that agreed? Fine.
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Papers to note
We now move on. There are three papers to note, which are on the agenda. One is correspondence from the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee about international agreements; the second is correspondence from the Consumer Council for…
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Thanks very much indeed for your time.
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Sarah, is there anything you wanted to add to what Jane has just asked? Obviously, there's one Bill that we're going to discuss, which is the police Bill, which has got a longer title, but there are some significant impacts on the human rights of people with…
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Jane Dodds, would you like to come in at this point?
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Sioned, back to you.
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Sioned, before you move on, I know Altaf wanted to come in on something that's already been said. Altaf.
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Thank you. Sioned Williams wanted to come in at this point to probe this matter a bit further.
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
I think one of the problems I have is that rights are really important, but, for example, the Low Commission mentions that this public law education is as important as public health education, but public health education is definitely a work in progress, it's…
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Fine. Excellent. Sarah Murphy, I know you wanted to come in on the challenges around enforcement.
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Sarah, did you want to add anything on this before we move on? You're content.
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Okay, very good. I know that Altaf Hussain wants to come in on this point.
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
In your evidence, you point out that there's an implementation gap in what the Welsh Government does, and that's obviously an important point, which you're not alone in making. How do you think that the approach that you're suggesting would actually improve…
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Sarah.
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
I beg your pardon. Sorry, I've shot ahead. Ken, do you want to come in on the role of monitoring and how that makes us accountable or not accountable?
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Okay. Over to you, Sarah Murphy.
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Thank you very much for that. Altaf Hussain wants to come in at this point with some questions. Altaf.
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Okay, thank you. Sarah, is there anything further you wanted to add to that?
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Very good. I'm struggling slightly as to how this legislation would actually make things better for people with protected characteristics, because what they want are nice warm homes, and therefore we need to do legislation to ensure that happens. So, it's…
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Sarah.
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Thank you. Thank you very much for sparing the time today to come and talk about your report. In this report, you recommend that the Welsh Government should introduce primary legislation on a human rights Act for Wales. Why do you think such legislation is…
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
Thank you. And Sarah.
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Strengthening and advancing equality and human rights in Wales
The first item on our agenda today is taking evidence from Professor Simon Hoffman and Dr Sarah Nason on the report that they have done on how we can strengthen and advance equality and human rights in Wales, and they're going to be speaking about the report…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
I'd like to welcome Members and members of the public to the meeting of the Equality and Social Justice Committee. This meeting is being broadcast live on Senedd.tv. This is a bilingual meeting, and simultaneous translation from Welsh to English is being made…
