, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 1
Do you mind if I just ask—? Why was there insufficient money set aside for restoration? Where have those millions gone?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 1
Thank you. Carolyn.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 1
Were there to be merit in undertaking that piece of work, who do you think would be best placed to do it?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 1
Does that need to be revisited? Do we need an independent piece of work to recost, if you like, getting some of those sites up to a standard or recognising where unrestored sites need to be addressed?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 1
We'll draw out a bit of that further as we go along, I'm sure. Could I ask you whether you believe non-operational surface mines in Wales have been restored to an appropriate standard? Are there any specific Welsh sites that you think are a cause of concern?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 1
We'll come on to that particularly later on. Just generally, in terms of your role, when you say you work with local authorities to make sure that expectations are met in terms of obligations et cetera, what does that look like? In practical terms, what do…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 1
So, we'll move on to the focus of our work this week, and our next meeting, indeed, namely evidence sessions relating to the Ffos-y-fran opencast coal mine, and arrangements for the restorations of former opencast mining sites in other parts of Wales. This…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Good morning, a very warm welcome to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee here at Senedd Cymru, the Welsh Parliament. May I welcome Members to this committee meeting? May I also explain that there have been changes to…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Public Services Ombudsman for Wales
Yes, I would; yes, I think that's a fair comment. But I suppose the PSO would say we are where we are and she did what she felt she had to do, but there is a wider question about diligence et cetera, which I referenced earlier. I'm out of time, I know…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Public Services Ombudsman for Wales
Well, let's hear it then. Nobody has said it yet.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Public Services Ombudsman for Wales
Very briefly, then, because I've got two seconds left.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Public Services Ombudsman for Wales
We're supporting this motion, and I was with you part of the way, but I lost you then in the second part, I have to say, because—. I'll say 'thank you' for bringing this motion forward. I think, in an age of declining trust in these kinds of institutions…
, Plenary
90-second Statements
Well, it gives me great pleasure to offer my congratulations to Wrexham football club, of course, which has secured promotion to league one of the English league this week. And what a way to secure that promotion: scoring six goals against Forest Green Rovers…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you for that, because I was going to ask about where we go next in terms of process. Maybe timescales are what they are and you might want to elaborate a little bit about that. But the reality is, of course, you repeated again today that taking longer…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd. Can I congratulate the Cabinet Secretary, as well, on his appointment? I know from his previous capacity as a member of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee that he'll undertake his work diligently…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
One day inquiry into the development of post-16 Welsh language provision: evidence session with National Centre for Learning Welsh
Diolch.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
One day inquiry into the development of post-16 Welsh language provision: evidence session with National Centre for Learning Welsh
There is a risk that we are missing out on a historic opportunity here.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
One day inquiry into the development of post-16 Welsh language provision: evidence session with National Centre for Learning Welsh
How much of a tragedy is it that you can't meet that demand, because, for generations, we have been trying to promote the Welsh language and encourage more to learn? There's a desire to learn and there are people out there who are eager to learn, but the…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
One day inquiry into the development of post-16 Welsh language provision: evidence session with National Centre for Learning Welsh
But there will be a period of flatlining now, possibly, won't there? So, how does one maintain that momentum? I was questioning Dr Ioan Matthews and others earlier, and they said, 'Well, we are starting from a low baseline.' Investment that hasn't hasn't…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
One day inquiry into the development of post-16 Welsh language provision: evidence session with National Centre for Learning Welsh
Estyn's evidence notes that the reduction in the current budget—it's a real-terms cut, isn't it—could undermine the recent progress made by the national centre. You're striking a more hopeful chord, perhaps, than the suggestion in Estyn's evidence.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
One day inquiry into the development of post-16 Welsh language provision: evidence session with National Centre for Learning Welsh
But, the best you can hope for now is to maintain that level of activity. You can't think of expanding that in the way you had hoped to had the envisaged budget come.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
One day inquiry into the development of post-16 Welsh language provision: evidence session with National Centre for Learning Welsh
Yes, okay. That was a good list there, but how, therefore, is the reprioritisation of the Government's budget going to have an impact on the resources and provision that you have mentioned, specifically, perhaps, the teaching of Welsh for 16 to 25-year-olds?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
One-day inquiry into the development of post-16 Welsh language provision: evidence session with post-16 education and training organisations
Thank you. Apologies to Dafydd and Lisa, I think they might want to come in now.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
One-day inquiry into the development of post-16 Welsh language provision: evidence session with post-16 education and training organisations
Apologies, Chair, I like to talk about money. [Laughter.] So, have you had any assurances or messages from a Minister, the Government, civil servants or whoever that the reprioritisation that's happened this year is going to be reprioritised next year?…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
One-day inquiry into the development of post-16 Welsh language provision: evidence session with post-16 education and training organisations
So, just to summarise—I'm sure Dafydd and Lisa would like to add something, but before coming to them, perhaps—you foresee, for example, in the context of setting targets for colleges and so forth, a continuation of progress, but perhaps not to the extent…
