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4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Absolutely. I guess when we have—. Carolyn mentioned the figure earlier, didn't she, that we'd received in evidence of a swim in a public swimming pool now costing about £12 if it was to truly reflect the running costs. Renewable energy, it's easy to…
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Yes, sure. Carwyn, did you want to add anything?
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Diolch yn fawr. Moving on to decarbonisation and modernisation, as you've mentioned, we have, in many cases, at least, an ageing leisure and library facility situation in Wales. Obviously, there's always a need to modernise and reinvest in buildings and…
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Diolch yn fawr, Carwyn. And Rob.
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Okay. Diolch yn fawr. Just before we move on, if there was to be a national strategy for leisure that—. I think it was Carwyn who spoke about twenty-first century schools and having a programme of new build and so on and a strategy over a lengthy period of…
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Okay. And Sharon, you'd agree with those points, would you?
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Yes. Thanks, Rob. Is that the picture for you as well, Carwyn, as Rob is describing? And Sharon, is that the picture more or less across Wales, do you think?
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Just on co-location, are there sometimes difficult transport issues in terms of access? We know the difficulties with bus services and community transport and so on. To what extent is that an issue? Are you sometimes removing services from particular…
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Yes, yes.
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Okay, Sam?
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Yes, please, Sharon.
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Who'd like to come in? Sharon.
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Carwyn.
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Okay, Carolyn. Diolch yn fawr. Sam.
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Yes.
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Carwyn, yes, please.
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Okay. Who would like to begin responding?
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Okay, diolch yn fawr. Diolch yn fawr, Mabon. Carolyn Thomas.
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Mabon, hapus?
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Thank you very much. Mabon ap Gwynfor.
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Okay. Diolch yn fawr, Rob. Carwyn.
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Diolch yn fawr, Carwyn. As a regular user of the leisure centre swimming pool in Newport, I can certainly agree that the temperature in the water has gone down in recent times. Just specifically on local library provision, then, you've touched on some of the…
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Carwyn, what do you think?
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Just a little bit further on that, Rob. In terms of on-costs and that 25 to 30 per cent saving for the authority, if those are costs associated with employing people, presumably the trusts would have those costs. Basically, I would imagine that they would…
4 May 2023Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 6
Rob, just in terms of the leisure trust and the lower cost that you mentioned, what's the picture in terms of the staff. Are some of those lower costs at the expense of staff, as it were—whether it's numbers or the salaries that they receive or, indeed, the…