, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Annual scrutiny session with Amguedda Cymru
Can I ask whether you have a measure of the confidence of your employees in the actual organisation?
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Annual scrutiny session with Amguedda Cymru
That's great to hear. Thank you very much. Right. I'm going to move on to bring in other Members to ask you questions. To start with, I'm going to go to Niamh, please.
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Annual scrutiny session with Amguedda Cymru
Very good. So, you are having conversations with your users, the people who use your facilities, in order to feed in.
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Annual scrutiny session with Amguedda Cymru
Okay. Thank you. And also, in terms of the strategy, what conversations are you having with the Government about your input into that strategy?
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Annual scrutiny session with Amguedda Cymru
Does the remit letter match what you're actually hoping to achieve?
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Annual scrutiny session with Amguedda Cymru
—with the Government about the remit letter that you have at the moment?
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Annual scrutiny session with Amguedda Cymru
—have you had conversations—
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Annual scrutiny session with Amguedda Cymru
Thank you very much. Following on from what you've just said, could you tell me have you had conversations—
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Annual scrutiny session with Amguedda Cymru
Thank you very much. I'll start with an opening question, and then I'll invite Members to follow on from that. So, the question I'm going to ask you first of all is: the Minister has described the Welsh Government's ambition as seeing culture, heritage and…
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Annual scrutiny session with Amguedda Cymru
We move on now to item 2, which is the annual scrutiny session with Amgueddfa Cymru. I'd like to welcome the witnesses to the meeting—a warm welcome to you—and invite them to introduce themselves. Could you introduce yourselves, please?
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Welcome to this meeting of the Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee. The position of Chair of this committee is shared between Mair Rowlands MS and me. I will be chairing this meeting. The public items of this meeting are being broadcast live…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Rural Resilience and Sustainability: Winter preparedness: Be flood ready
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. I have to say that I do feel this is very encouraging, what we've heard from your statement. It's really good to hear that many of the things that have been put in place in the past are now bearing fruit, such as the national flood…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
Minister, culture has faced a decade of funding cuts. Funding cuts don't just affect the arts sector. They also have a direct impact on the well-being and vitality of Welsh communities and society. If we are serious about the well-being of future generations…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
12. How is the Welsh Government ensuring the successful implementation of the Well‑being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015? OQ64623
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government General Scrutiny Session
I just want to emphasise the importance of adult community learning. As you know, it is part of what we do in relation to the preventative agenda and so on. It is so very important. Those opportunities can transform lives. Many of us were at an awards…
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government General Scrutiny Session
Thank you very much.
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government General Scrutiny Session
In my experience as an employer, before I came here, I just saw that there were challenges there in that smaller SMEs and people in the third sector didn't always understand everything to do with apprenticeships and everything to do with apprenticeships and…
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government General Scrutiny Session
Fine.
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government General Scrutiny Session
Yes, exactly.
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government General Scrutiny Session
I personally want to ensure that we see local authorities throughout Wales not just using the Welsh language as a way of getting the Welsh language into English-medium schools, but for things to happen through the medium of Welsh for Welsh speakers.
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government General Scrutiny Session
I have a question written down here, but from my experience of working in the field with the mentrau iaith, I saw that youth work was ad hoc throughout the country through the medium of Welsh. It's very important that they have those opportunities, not just…
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government General Scrutiny Session
This is about youth work.
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Welsh Government General Scrutiny Session
How are you doing? As someone who has been through tertiary education, who left school at the age of 14 with no qualifications and then went into tertiary education, I felt that it changed my life. It's an opportunity for everyone, and we have to find all…
, Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Yes, just to note my register of interests, and also that I worked with the mentrau iaith.
, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Papers to note
We'll now proceed in private for the remainder of the meeting. We'll wait to hear that we're in private session.
