, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 5: Active travel (Amendments 40, 73, 18, 41, 63, 64, 65)
It's a ceasefire, not a stand-off, I think.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 5: Active travel (Amendments 40, 73, 18, 41, 63, 64, 65)
Ceasefire.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 5: Active travel (Amendments 40, 73, 18, 41, 63, 64, 65)
Yes, just on a point of clarity, just to give some reassurance to Janet Finch-Saunders that we are committed not to table our amendment either and to work with the committee to get a better, a point we can all agree on. If at the point of Stage 3 we just…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 5: Active travel (Amendments 40, 73, 18, 41, 63, 64, 65)
Can I just come back?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 5: Active travel (Amendments 40, 73, 18, 41, 63, 64, 65)
Yes. I must say Janet Finch-Saunders has been a long-term supporter of measures to promote active travel, and this has been a cross-party consensus, and I hope it will continue to remain so. I was disappointed to hear her parroting some of the attack lines…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 4: Air quality targets: Reporting, reviews and monitoring progress (Amendments 31, 33, 34, 70, 71, 39, 4, 13)
Well, our whole approach, Janet, is to set the detail in the strategies and to review them, because that can be kept up to date with the progress on the ground and with the changing evidence. So, we will be bound, but we won't be bound on the face of the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 4: Air quality targets: Reporting, reviews and monitoring progress (Amendments 31, 33, 34, 70, 71, 39, 4, 13)
That's correct.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 4: Air quality targets: Reporting, reviews and monitoring progress (Amendments 31, 33, 34, 70, 71, 39, 4, 13)
This is a significant piece of legislation. It's very ambitious, and it's no good simply approving the high-level intent of it without being willing to follow through on the practical impact that has on all sectors. And I just make that point to her gently…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 4: Air quality targets: Reporting, reviews and monitoring progress (Amendments 31, 33, 34, 70, 71, 39, 4, 13)
Thank you. Before I turn to the specific point, just to address Janet's point, because I think it is a significant point of principle here, on the impact on farmers. Let's just be very clear that the World Health Organization standards that she has supported…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 3: Air quality targets: Maintaining air quality standards (Amendments 2, 3A, 3, 12)
Thank you. Obviously, we will want to ensure that Senedd Members vote in a fully informed way. So, I shall reflect to ensure that that is the case, and if it's not, we shall return to it.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 3: Air quality targets: Maintaining air quality standards (Amendments 2, 3A, 3, 12)
Now—. So, regulations made under section 1 and 2 of the Bill must specify a standard to be met and a date by which the standard is to be met. The effect of the amendment is that, once both the specified date and the specified standard have been met, the Welsh…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 3: Air quality targets: Maintaining air quality standards (Amendments 2, 3A, 3, 12)
Thank you. I ask the committee to support all the amendments in this group, and I think this is another example of the Bill being improved through scrutiny. Amendment 3 inserts a proposed new section into the Bill on maintaining air quality standards. It…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 2: Air quality targets: Having regard to World Health Organization guidelines (Amendments 69, 85, 86)
Thanks. I'd like to echo what Delyth Jewell said about the engagement of Healthy Air Cymru, both with the committee and directly with Ministers and officials. I think we have moved in the face of the arguments and the evidence, and engagement by civil…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Air quality targets: Requirement to set air quality targets (Amendments 19, 66, 67, 1, 20, 21, 68, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38)
So, to turn to amendment 19, tabled by Janet Finch-Saunders, which would turn Welsh Ministers' power to make long-term air quality targets in section 1 of the Bill into a duty, we feel that changing the discretion into a duty without specifying the pollutants…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Air quality targets: Requirement to set air quality targets (Amendments 19, 66, 67, 1, 20, 21, 68, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38)
Great, thank you. I'd just like to say at the beginning that we do appreciate the way the committee has engaged with the scrutiny process so far. I think the spirit or the thrust of the amendments, we are in agreement with. The approach that I'll be setting…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Bus services
Well, I recognise there is a real concern. I think a lot of it is about confidence and it's about being used to having to do it, and I do think we need to look at where we can provide some assistance and some training to build confidence to be able to use…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Bus services
Well, she understands the challenge of being in power, doesn't she, where the aspirations we have often aren't matched by the funds available, and that's the dilemma that we all face. So, it's easy to point to the shortcomings of that, but what do we do? What…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Bus services
Thank you very much for all the contributions. I think, whenever we discuss this issue in this Chamber, what's always very clear is that people care about buses, and the bus service currently does not meet our ambitions for what a bus service should look…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Bus services
Okay.
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Bus services
Formally.
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Llywydd, it's difficult to take these comments seriously, frankly. The lack of connectivity that north Wales faces with the rest of the UK, which I've now just been accused of, is the responsibility of the body that has powers over rail infrastructure. These…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
So, they have form on breaking promises on this before. This is no more than an election promise with no numbers behind it. And the reason why the south Wales main line didn't go ahead is because costs ran out of control. They ran out of control because no…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Well, I think it's fair to say that this is no way to run a railroad. We've heard a great deal from the Conservatives in recent weeks about money they think is being poorly spent, and here we have hundreds of millions of pounds being written off on a scheme…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Thank you. Well, we've had no official notification of the decision in advance, but our position on HS2 consequential does not change: huge amounts of money have been spent in England, and Wales deserves its share.
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: Update on the Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle (Wales) Bill
Well, I think it's a really interesting point. I think the reality is that technology is moving at a pace ahead of regulation, and, as I've already highlighted, the distinction we have in law between Hackney carriages and private-hire vehicles is increasingly…
