, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Coal bodies
We touched on this earlier, but it would be good just to go—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Coal bodies
Dominic, and then we'll come to Rick.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Coal bodies
Carl wants to finish something.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Coal bodies
Delyth.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Coal bodies
Excellent. Thank you. That has set the scene nicely for us. I'll invite Delyth Jewell to lead us in the next section.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Coal bodies
Because the identification of greater risks might indeed lead to you needing to get involved more with those particular issues.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Coal bodies
And the Health and Safety Executive—what kind of evolution, potentially, will we see? Or is it just business as usual, just as another element?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Coal bodies
Sure. Thank you. And capacity-wise, do you see any potential impact?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Coal bodies
To what extent has that discussion happened, or is happening?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Coal bodies
Thank you. And similarly with the MRA.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Coal bodies
Is that code for 'you haven't got enough capacity the minute'?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Coal bodies
We'll go into that in greater depth in a moment, but how do you envisage that role changing somewhat, as we move forward into the new regime?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Coal bodies
Welcome back to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee. We are moving now to our second scrutiny session of the morning but the third item on the agenda—that's why I paused there. Joining us today we have three…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
I think you've done them justice, I have to say. Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you for the evidence that you've shared with us. Committee will now break. We'll break for 10 minutes, and reconvene for a slightly earlier start to our second session, if we could…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
I think we've covered most of the bases, unless any Members have anything else they wish to ask. Alison, do you have anything else that you wish to raise?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
Okay, yes. So, yes, the potential for is there. Okay, thank you. Diolch. Janet, then, I think, next.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
Just on definitions, as a committee we've had evidence just drawing our attention, really, to the meaning of tips being a bit different when it comes to the Mines Regulations 2014 and the Quarries Regulations 1999. It's much broader than what we have in the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
Diolch yn fawr. Joyce.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
Thank you very much. Okay, Janet is next.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
Okay. Thank you very much. Delyth.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
But is that not possible in relation to all tips, then?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
Okay, so I gauge from that that you're comparatively content that the Bill is drafted in such a way that avoids, or at least helps manage, those potential overlaps. Yes. Okay. Diolch yn fawr. Just on the register, then, of disused tips, can you just outline…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
Diolch, Delyth. You recommended, obviously, the creation of a new oversight body. I'm just wondering to what extent you considered the risk of overlap between its work and existing bodies. I'm thinking particularly of Natural Resources Wales, the Health and…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
Okay. Thanks very much. Delyth.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Law Commission
We'll move on, therefore, to the next item. We will be returning to the scrutiny work for Stage 1 of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill. We are receiving evidence today from a number of stakeholders. We have already heard, of course, from the…
