, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with academics
And don't both feel obliged to answer every question. Obviously, if you have something to add, clearly do so, but otherwise we can keep moving on.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with academics
Of course. Thank you very much. I'll start straight away, if I may, just by asking: a number of respondents to the committee's consultation on the Bill have identified the need for clarity on the transition from current arrangements to the new process; what…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with academics
We'll move to the second item today, which is an evidence session on the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill. We're returning to this scrutiny, following scrutiny of the Minister last term. Our first panel includes two academics, Hannah Hickman from the University of…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Welcome to you all to the first meeting of the new term of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee. We're welcoming Members back for a new term of scrutiny work. This is a meeting that's being held in a hybrid format. The public items of…
, Plenary
Debate on the General Principles of the Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
'any matter relating to air quality'. You couldn't be more vague than that. We already know, don't we, what the most damaging pollutants are, and we also have a pretty clear idea about the standards that we should be aiming for, thanks to the latest World…
, Plenary
Debate on the General Principles of the Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
Thank you very much, Llywydd. At the very outset, I think it's fitting for me to thank Heledd Fychan, who stepped in as temporary chair for much of the environment committee’s Stage 1 consideration of the Bill. So, thank you for your work. I also, of course…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Energy Bill
Thank you very much, Llywydd. I find myself in a rather curious position today, contributing to this debate when the climate change committee has not had an opportunity to consider the LCM or an opportunity to report on it. We had intended to consider the LCM…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Those are the words that she used, with the strong suggestion that there would be need for cuts this year—that is, in-year cuts—in the current budget. So, can you confirm whether the Government will ask health boards—and Betsi Cadwaladr health board, of…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
'You ain't seen nothing yet.'
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
You are entirely right, of course—the pressures are huge. At the NHS Confederation dinner yesterday evening, your Minister for health said, in the context of cuts:
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
2. Will the First Minister make a statement on the financial situation at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board? OQ59880
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The Crown Estate
Would you take a short intervention?
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Well, there have been recent outbreaks, and it is of huge concern. It's something I raised with the climate change Minister last week, and I was effectively referred to you on this, so I'd like to ask what additional support and advice is being given to…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
4. Will the Minister provide an update on the Welsh Government's response to cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza? OQ59844
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Isn't assuming that the money will come from the UK Government playing a rather dangerous game, because the UK Government does have form in this respect, where they have reneged on promises made in the past to fully replace EU funding to Wales post Brexit?…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd. Minister, you told us yesterday that you hadn't had any kind of definitive assurance of funding from the UK Government for the implementation of the sustainable farming scheme. How, therefore, are you factoring funding uncertainties…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
To be critical of the process. We need to change the process to reflect the situation, that we are dependent on Westminster.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
Yes. I think that the nature of the Finance Committee's letter is very robust, I think, and I think there has been concern expressed. That is, there are wider questions in terms of the fact that the system doesn't work, because it's never been used as it…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
—on the letter from the Finance Committee on a proposed timetable for scrutinising the budget? I don't know if the committee would like to write to echo the concern that, once again, there has been a restriction on the scrutiny period allowed, because this is…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
Could I raise something on 3.6—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of Amgueddfa Cymru
Diolch.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of Amgueddfa Cymru
Unfortunately, that was a better note to finish on than the question I'm going to ask, but there we are. I was just looking at some of the comments that you made in the papers, and you say that you want to be visible in and around the organisation. Obviously…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of Amgueddfa Cymru
Diolch.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of Amgueddfa Cymru
But there is a very adversarial culture when you have chief executives around the table and so on, and moving to a situation where you have trustees who aren't paid but who are there, perhaps, because the incentives are different. So, how are you going to…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Pre-appointment scrutiny hearing with the preferred candidate for the post of Chair of Amgueddfa Cymru
Can you expand a little bit on some of those challenges, some of the things that you've had to deal with?
