, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 3: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Energy (Amendments 192, 96, 37, 193, 194, 196, 139, 140)
I move.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 3: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Energy (Amendments 192, 96, 37, 193, 194, 196, 139, 140)
Thank you, Chair. I move amendments 96 and 37 in the name of Janet Finch-Saunders. Amendment 96 adds 'or underground' after 'ground', meaning that the installation of underground electric cables can be considered a significant infrastructure project too. This…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 2: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Local ownership of energy projects (Amendments 191, 195)
Thank you, Chair. I'd like to thank Adam Price for bringing the matter of ownership to the fore, but he has followed the pattern the Minister has pursued, leaving actual detail to regulations. The amendment provides no definition of 'minimum local ownership'…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Miscellaneous (Amendments 95, 97, 98, 100, 101, 102, 104, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 114)
Thank you, Chair. I'm grateful for the Welsh Government's support on the amendments that the Minister outlined. Nonetheless, we'd still like to proceed to a vote on the remaining ones.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Miscellaneous (Amendments 95, 97, 98, 100, 101, 102, 104, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 114)
Thank you, Chair. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all who have been involved in the development of this legislation so far. To be frank, I think there are major lessons for the Welsh Parliament and the Welsh Government to learn from this Bill…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: HeartUnions Week
The most blinkered trade unionists would see that this would ultimately be a positive for workers and workers' rights. Thank you.
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: HeartUnions Week
The last sentence, Llywydd.
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: HeartUnions Week
Thank you, Llywydd. They're not affiliated to the Labour Party, so do not even warrant a thought or mention. Llywydd, in the spirit of last week's HeartUnions Week, we must be mindful to remember that unions should not be in the business of blackmailing…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: HeartUnions Week
Thank you, Deputy Minister, for your statement today. This might surprise you, but I believe that trade unions can be a positive force for standing up for workers' rights and even for helping governments understand some of the nuanced implications of their…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the EU: evidence session with umbrella bodies (2)
Chair, I think most of the other questions were answered by the other answers.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the EU: evidence session with umbrella bodies (2)
Okay, thanks. About the creative industries on the whole, then, have you seen much impact, then—? Were you able to quantify, prior to Brexit, the impact that it's had, I suppose, since Brexit, on the creative industries—the trading arrangements on the whole…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the EU: evidence session with umbrella bodies (2)
Okay. Perfect. And then, obviously, just to go back to sort of like the trading arrangements, and on the—. Sorry, it's a loop, so, when I speak, it's feeding back into my hearing aid and it's quite disorientating, actually, especially when I think, 'Oh, do I…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the EU: evidence session with umbrella bodies (2)
The other one I wanted to ask, then—. I remember last year, I read an article online about the impact that artists, because of the European law about the—. It's estimated they lose up to about 40 per cent of their income from American radio, from American…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the EU: evidence session with umbrella bodies (2)
Yes, because, you know, in the grand scheme of things, it's probably not, but it is quite a high percentage, really—not in comparison to the 43, but—. Not the 43, the 82.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the EU: evidence session with umbrella bodies (2)
Thank you, Chair. Thanks ever so much for coming in this afternoon. I know we've briefly touched upon it in other discussions that we've had here, but I wanted to talk about trading arrangements. But, if I may, Chair, I just want to ask a couple of questions…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the EU: evidence session with other legislatures (1)
Okay, thank you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the EU: evidence session with other legislatures (1)
Thank you, Chair, and thanks ever so much for coming in online this morning. I just wanted to pick up a question, if I may, about that visa waiver option, because I know that was offered at the time with the negotiations, but it was rejected by the UK…
, Plenary
Short Debate: Faster access to hearing services in Wales
I'd like to start by thanking Janet for allowing me a minute of her time and for raising such an important debate, and also to thank Natasha for her kind words just then, really. I suppose I just want to take my opportunity to reiterate the valid points that…
, Plenary
Debate on the Local Government and Housing Committee Report, 'Diversity in Local Government'
I'd like to start by thanking my committee Chair, John Griffiths, for opening this debate. I am pleased to see that the Government has accepted, or accepted in principle, all the recommendations in this report. I believe strongly that we need to encourage…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you, Chair.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thanks, Chair. It was just something that came up at the last evidence session with the newspapers, and it was something that I was quite interested in. You mentioned there that people have more access to information than ever before really, and I just wanted…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Perfect. Thank you, Chair.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Just for the record, I'm not suggesting putting it up to 50 per cent; it's just that this gives an opportunity to look at all discount rates. At the moment, by law, you can only offer 25 per cent or 50 per cent rate discounts, whereas this allows a bit more…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Is there scope to look at the different percentages? Because I know at the moment you can only do it at either 25 per cent or 50 per cent. Obviously, with this, it brings in a scope where you can look at different percentages or even different discounts. Is…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Just one final question, Chair, if I can. Obviously, we started by talking about the IFS, and in the evidence session—it was quite interesting, actually—they specifically highlighted the single person discount. And obviously, I know in the past, Minister…
