, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Donal wants to come in as well.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Donal.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Yes. Chris.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Chris, would you like to go first on this one?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay, and we'll dig down a bit deeper on the data stuff in a moment, but we'll come on now to Joyce.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay, thank you. Chris.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay. Jenny, you wanted to pick up on something.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay. Thank you. So, Donal and Chris, just to respond, maybe, to this; obviously, the cost-of-living crisis is having a huge bearing on so many aspects of life these days, it's invariably going to have an effect on what both individual home owners can…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Briefly, yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Rhiannon, would you like to go first on that?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Although the focus of this inquiry is specifically the private sector.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Yes, and probably disappointed that you're not involved, but there we are. I thought that I'd maybe flag up that the Government, at least, believes that they are doing it, but maybe they need to do it with a bit more gusto, I think, is maybe what some people…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay. I just want to flag something up, because in response to a report by the Equality and Social Justice Committee, actually, chaired by our colleague here, Jenny Rathbone, the Government responded to some of the recommendations there, one of which was on…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay, thank you. Rhiannon.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay. Donal, would you like to add anything?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Chris, would you like to kick off?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay, we will move on, therefore, to our second agenda item, which is our first evidence session on decarbonising the private housing sector. Members will recall that we as a committee agreed at the beginning of the sixth Senedd to undertake a multiphase…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Good morning, and a warm welcome to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee here at Senedd Cymru. A warm welcome to Members to the meeting. It is being held in hybrid format, so some Members are here in the room and others…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of today's meeting
Okay. Therefore, I propose, under item 7, that we move to private session. I propose, in accordance with Standing Orders 17.42(vi) and (ix), that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? Yes, you are…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Papers to note
We will, therefore, as they leave us, continue with the meeting. The sixth item is papers to note—two papers, 6.1 and 6.2. Are Members content to note those papers? They are relevant to the discussion that we've just had—correspondence from the Minister…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Well, there we are. That brings us to the end of our session. Can I thank you, Minister, and your officials, for your attendance? As always, you will be sent a draft transcript to check for accuracy, but we very much look forward to—[Inaudible.]—all of the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
That has been asked and addressed, yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Janet wants to come in as well.
