, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Moving on to public inquiries, people have said—and they are—that they are adversarial and they can be inaccessible to the public, which is the main thing here. NIPA told us they should only be used in exceptional circumstances. Can you explain the rationale…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. There's mixed feedback on the provisions in the Bill that allow either the examining authority or the Welsh Minister to make the final decision. Can you set out your reasoning for that flexibility and what proportion of applications you envisage being…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
You think it's covered.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. So, you're saying—. Did you say that you're happy to put that on the face of the Bill? It wasn't clear.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Good morning. We've had evidence from a former examining inspector telling us that section 55 of the Planning Act 2008 allows an inspector to consider whether the material submitted is comprehensive enough to allow a meaningful examination to take place…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Moving on from what you just said, Minister, this is all going to be about timing. You said there's current work going on looking at marine conservation and, at the same time, we're driving through a new Bill and we've had the question about hierarchy. In…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Mine is in a similar vein. Who holds the data? What are they looking at? And, can we be assured, in terms of satisfying everybody, that that data really answers the question, rather than going in the direction in favour of and supporting a large-scale…
, Plenary
Short Debate: Breaking the class ceiling—Building an egalitarian Wales
I'd like to thank you, Rhianon, for bringing forward this interesting debate and allowing me a minute in it. You've talked about the class ceiling, but there's also the class feeling. The latest British social attitudes survey records that more people feel…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Mental health
I'm going to focus my contribution on adverse childhood experiences and mental health. ACEs are those stressful or traumatic experiences that occur in childhood and cause lasting harm, for example, sexual and physical abuse or growing up in a household with…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
I too welcome this announcement. It's undoubtedly the right decision for the people of Furnace and for Llanelli. I'm pleased that the Home Office has finally listened to the community, and I hope that the community will be given the space they need to come…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
1. Will the Minister make a statement on the Home Office announcement dropping plans to house asylum seekers at Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli? TQ868
, Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
I think the first thing I want to say is, as far as I understand it, the Senedd Commission will be the first organisation in Wales to adopt the new BSI standard, and I think that speaks volumes about our commitment in this area. And the revised guidance…
, Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
I thank you for that question. The Senedd Commission promotes a supportive culture that generates awareness about the menopause, where conversations about it are encouraged. I am delighted to say that, further to my response to Huw Irranca-Davies’s written…
, Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
Well, it seems to me like you all had great fun. I didn't join you, but running's not exactly my style. But the more serious point, which you make, is that it is always good for people to start their day in a healthy way. In terms of your particular ask…
, Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
I thank you for the question. The physical and mental well-being of Senedd Commission staff is indeed a priority, with a well-being strategy in place outlining how the Commission supports that. That includes promoting physical and mental well-being, through…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 9: Smoke control areas (Amendments 77, 6, 7, 8, 9, 48, 78, 59, 14, 15, 16, 60, 17)
That was 14.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 9: Smoke control areas (Amendments 77, 6, 7, 8, 9, 48, 78, 59, 14, 15, 16, 60, 17)
Yes, if I could just have clarification, Minister, on the last point that you've made and reverse it around, and is there help for those people—? Do you envisage help for those people who want to take out what would become an illegal burning device, but it's…
, Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report, 'Natural Resources Wales—Annual Scrutiny 2022-23'
[Inaudible.]—NRW's staff. The Minister won't be surprised that I'm going to focus here on water quality, and it is uppermost in most people's minds. There are very many aspects to that. One is enforcement and one is education with stakeholders—and, by the…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, could the education Minister make a statement on what schools are doing to mark this National Bullying Prevention Month? I visited Ysgol Dyffryn Aman last month to speak to older pupils about how they are engaging with the subject through the new…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Environmental organisations
Okay. Any idea what that should look like? Any information you can give us where that is the case elsewhere?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Environmental organisations
And I'm going to move on now to the decision making, and again there were mixed responses because the Bill would allow for either the examining authority or the Minister to make a decision. Some want the Welsh Ministers to be the decision maker on every…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Environmental organisations
I'm going to move on now to examination and decisions, and we've had varying degrees of discussion around this. Some respondents are concerned that the discretion in the Bill for the examining authority to decide the form the examination of an application…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Environmental organisations
We've had a paper from the Marine Conservation Society and they raise specific concerns about the designation of the marine plan as the primary document against which applications for marine SIPs should be assessed, because, unlike 'Future Wales', it doesn't…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Environmental organisations
We're going over now to status and hierarchy of planning applications. We have received evidence, including from the RSPB, expressing concern about the specific provisions for infrastructure policy statements in the Bill, including a lack of provision for…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Environmental organisations
I want to declare that I'm a member of the RSPB.
