, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
You'll be aware, I imagine, that our child poverty report recommended that there should be one Minister for children, because of the fragmentation of responsibility. For their part, we know that parents and people who are providing childcare find the system…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you very much. I'm going to start off with looking at the early childhood play, learning and care plan, which was published in March. The committee's heard evidence that there's a need to really clarify the vision and purpose of the Welsh Government's…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
I'd very much like to welcome the new Minister for Mental Health and Early Years, Jayne Bryant. I wonder if you could just introduce your officials.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good afternoon. Welcome to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. We're now about to conduct our final session on the follow-up inquiry into childcare. I've had apologies from Joel James and from Julie Morgan, and I'd like to welcome Buffy Williams, who…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
They're all male-dominated areas of development as well. Where's the degree apprenticeship in the caring industry, which is a huge concern and responsibility we have?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Okay. How does this link in with giving technical skills the parity that academic skills have? What role do degree apprenticeships have, given that they are actually very limited—the ones that are actually funded by the Welsh Government?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Okay. I was going to say something else there—it'll come back to me in a moment.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Yes, that may not be suitable for everybody.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Okay. Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
So, how do you work with secondary schools and colleges to ensure that people aren't becoming NEET, and they are going into the training, based on a suite of options, depending on what their interests are?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Thank you. Is there anything you wanted to say on these other two aspects, as you're—?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Okay. So, I have two things that I'm not clear about. One is: how do we interface with the young person's guarantee? Because so many people don't seem to know about this who are young people—or their parents. Why are we not ensuring that every young person is…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
So, how closely do you work with industry? Because there are several sector-leading green energy companies in Cardiff that I happen to know about, because I represent a Cardiff constituency. They obviously make it their business to know the latest innovation…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Hello, I'm sorry I was a little bit late. I had to go and do something else. It isn't just the next generation that we've got to upskill, it's the existing workforce, because everything is changing so quickly as a result of the climate emergency and…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
There's always money in muck, though. Surely, this nitrate has a value. Guano—
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
Public procurement?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
Okay, I just wanted to pick up on the issue of these people who are already organic because they're on the uplands. The WWF laid on a seminar here last week, and we had two upland farmers, both of whom had increased their profitability by reducing their stock…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
Okay. So, is this something that the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences and other people in the network, like you, are doing work on?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
This is the UK Government, is it?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
But we do have the odd heavy goods vehicle and public transport vehicles running off green hydrogen, so this is something you are hoping could be spread to the agricultural sector as well, for these heavy vehicles.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
And it doesn't advance the case unless it's green hydrogen.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
But it could run off hydro or solar—
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
Okay. All right, so this is one to think of for the future. Moving on, you are arguing that we need to address the amount of emissions from agricultural machinery if we're going to actually meet our objectives. Could you elaborate on that, because it's not…
