, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2
Can I come back, Chair? I was so pleased to hear what you've said about the gender-based workforce, because I'm a founding member and chair of the all-party group on construction and we focus particularly on the gender gap, which is massive, and also the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2
I'm going to talk about skills—I think it has been mentioned already—about pipelines feeding into skills. So, do you think that we have the requisite skills across the board to deliver what is an ambitious but necessary programme in Wales?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2
My question follows through what Scott just said about the layers of expectation being perhaps different in different places and—if I understood you right, I don't want to misrepresent what I thought you said—the emphasis being rather broad and not easily…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2
Yes, and then I'd like to come back as well.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2
Thank you. I'm going to move on to funding and whether you think that there's sufficient funding to decarbonise houses in accordance with the ambition.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2
Okay. Thank you. Has anybody else got anything? No.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2
I want to ask about your involvement in the optimised retrofit programme and any key successes and challenges that we can take on board both now and going forward.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
An obvious question. Somebody said that they're small businesses—and they are—so any business investment wants to recoup that investment, and, if we're talking about rented properties, the only way they can do that is by increasing the rent. So, my question…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
Can I ask Chris: will those lessons be learnt—and it's fantastic and it's great what you've just said—in adequate time so that they have value going forward, because I think that's the whole idea, isn't it, of capturing data so that you can take that…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
I'm going to move to the optimised retrofit programme, so we're moving on a bit—the key successes of that programme and the relevant transferrable learning for other tenures, and, Jo, you've talked about this, so maybe you want to go first.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
Can I just pursue one aspect? I thank you for all of that. I know that we're limited for time, but I did make a point about who owns the houses, who's been left in the owner-occupier houses, and the profile in Wales is of an older generation, particularly in…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
I'm just going to add my little comments to what was said. We used to, when we were in the European Union, which is another area that people don't want to talk about, have grants that would enhance the whole streets, especially if they were terraces. So, they…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
It could be that Ed might have answered it. The supply chain you talk about, I wanted to understand a little bit more—are you talking about a skills supply chain, a goods supply chain, just for clarity? That's what I wanted to know.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
We would all like to see more contested seats. I certainly would. I haven't got an election at home in Pembrokeshire either, where there are 19 uncontested seats. And Sam Rowlands is right to point out that the attacks, the public attacks, on individuals…
, Plenary
Short Debate: Motor neurone disease and access to treatment and facilities in Wales
And that brings today's proceedings to a close.
, Plenary
Short Debate: Motor neurone disease and access to treatment and facilities in Wales
I now call on the Minister for Health and Social Services to reply to the debate, Eluned Morgan.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Homes for Ukraine scheme update
I now call on the other speakers. If you could take one minute because many people want to speak and we're in danger of running out of time, and it's such an important issue. Huw Irranca-Davies.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Thank you, because that might be one of the first challenges that comes your way should you end up being chair. Thank you. Diolch.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
There are, of course, areas where people live in Wales but don't receive their care, necessarily, in Wales, and their voices will have to be heard. We're about to have a report from Shropshire and Telford where women would have received the most appalling…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
[Inaudible.]—Professor. I'm going to ask questions around equality, diversity and the Welsh language. Unfortunately, I'm going to ask my questions in English, and you will, obviously, answer them in the language you choose. So, I want to know about the skills…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the Children's Commissioner for Wales and the Older People's Commissioner for Wales
Just that, if you want to say more about the 'no wrong door', that would be worth us hearing about. I was going to ask about the neurodivergent, but you did mention that at the start. So, the 'no wrong door', I think, would be useful.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the Children's Commissioner for Wales and the Older People's Commissioner for Wales
Do you think that there's too much of an emphasis on the medical model, as opposed to the social model? That's my question.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the Children's Commissioner for Wales and the Older People's Commissioner for Wales
I would like to welcome you—thank you, both, for being here—and invite you to give some recent evidence about the impact that the pandemic has had on the mental health of older people and also children and young people, and whether you think that's a…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Centre for Mental Health and Mental Health Foundation
Thank you. A final question from me is: are there other countries that have an approach that we could learn something from?
