, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Okay. Would you allow me—? Can I—? Huw would like to come in, Joyce. Is it okay if I allow Huw to come in first, and then we'll move on?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Okay, fine. Thank you. We'll move on, then, to Joyce.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Yes, okay. And, as I say, that's probably a question to Government more than to you in many respects. Back to Janet now, then.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Thank you, Rhun. Just to pick up on the comments you made about there being about 20 or 25 bilateral discussions happening, how can we be confident that—maybe this is a question to Government, but, clearly, you will be diligent in this respect as well, I'm…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Thank you, Jenny. Rhun.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Okay, and I'm sure we'll pick up on that a little bit later on as well. So, we'll move on to Jenny now then.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Okay. So, you would expect with any additional responsibilities that funding would flow consequently from Government to cover that responsibility? Because we as a committee have received evidence, for example from Natural Resources Wales, where we're…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Okay, there we are. Thank you for that. There are a few things to be done to follow up on those points, then. Thank you. We'll move on to Joyce.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Thank you, and it isn't just budget as well, because you have corporate key performance indicators. How are you performing against those KPIs and how do you report that publicly?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Briefly, then, yes. I think the question generally is: how can we see this information without bringing you before committee really, isn't it?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Yes. As and when is fine, James. And, Geoff, you interject as well, if you wish—that's fine.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
We can hear you over the dog barking. That's fine. That's fine.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Okay, we'll move on to the main focus of this afternoon's meeting, namely to scrutinise the work of Transport for Wales. This is our first annual scrutiny session with Transport for Wales. The first part of the meeting will focus on general scrutiny on…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
A very warm welcome to you all to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee. I would like to welcome Members, first of all. We have received apologies from Delyth Jewell, and there's a particularly warm welcome to Rhun ap…
, Plenary
Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22
I also want to reiterate the committee's point about transparency from both the Welsh Government and the UK Government. It's a regular charade, isn't it, from the UK Government primarily, when they announce additional funding, they're giving more money, but…
, Plenary
Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22
Of course, I'm eager to welcome any additional allocations in the supplementary budget, although I do share some of the concerns outlined by the previous speaker and the committee Chair, particularly in ensuring that we can demonstrate the value that those…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
And that prize of tens of thousands of additional jobs can happen without spending any additional funding, because it's funding that we're already spending on procurement, but it can be spent in a different way. So, I welcome the fact that this is being…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you very much, Llywydd. Minister, you will be aware that every 1 per cent of the value of public procurement that remains in Wales accounts for 2,000 new jobs, and that's why the Plaid Cymru manifesto wanted to see an increase, from the 52 per cent of…
, Plenary
Debate: The Local Government Settlement 2022-23
I also want to start my contribution to this debate in the proper place by thanking councils, councillors and the staff of local authorities for the exceptional work that they've done over past few years. They have proved, if it needed to be proved—I don't…
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2022-23
This budget does deliver on many of Plaid Cymru's main pledges in our recent manifesto. Two hundred million pounds in the budget to ensure free school meals for all primary school children, and that includes over £20 million in addition to extend free school…
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2022-23
Just a few brief comments about the process maybe, initially. I think we're all looking forward to the budget returning to its normal timetable of eight sitting weeks of scrutiny. We haven't had that for a long time, and I think these condensed periods of…
, Plenary
Debate: Welsh Rates of Income Tax
We will not oppose this motion either, and along the same lines, I would ask for greater clarity on the Government's intentions here, because in the last Senedd you refused to vary taxes, or ruled out varying taxes for the rest of the Senedd. Now, as we've…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on COVID-19
I just want to say a word about our track, trace and protect staff, who have been a huge part of the effort to keep us safe over recent years. They're now being discarded at what feels like a moment's notice. I know of workers, for example, who've just had 48…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
We are hearing now, of course, that there is humanitarian aid that is meant to go to Ukraine stuck on the UK border because of the additional red tape to export goods as a result of Brexit. Now, according to the charities affected, they say that there is…
, 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
And therefore item 7 is for me to propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(vi) and (ix), that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content with that? Yes, I see that they are. Therefore, we'll move…
