, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
Can you hear us, Jenny, because we can hear you?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
Thank you. Okay, Jenny's going to take us on to another area now.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
Iain? Yes. Well, both.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
Okay. Huw.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
Well, I don't know that we can answer that question, but it's a fair question to ask, isn't it? How are we hearing all the voices, really? We're going to have to move on, Jenny, I'm afraid. We have a number of other areas we wish to consider. I was going to…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
It's six courses, isn't it? Yes, okay. Jenny wants to come in as well, and then we'll come back to Dr Petetin.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
Let's go to Iain on this first, then.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
Before I bring Iain in, one of the clearest messages that's come through from the roadshow that the Government held was that there are too many universal actions—17. Anecdotally, many farmers have told me that they were sat in those meetings when the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
Thank you. Janet.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
Iain, do you have anything to add?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
Yes, and I was maybe just teasing people a little bit there. Can we come to Janet?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
Is it not a bit tragic that we've taken seven years talking about this and we still haven't come as close as you'd like to what you'd like to see? We touched on this earlier with the sectors: the Government says it's co-design, well, why were there 3,000…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
Can we bring Professor Donnison in with any thoughts about what we've been talking about?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
Okay. Huw.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
So, are you advocating a pause, then, in order to get everything lined up, or as much as we can lined up, before we actually expect farmers to be implementing this?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
Well, everybody's telling us that this has to start next year.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
Just coming back to the lack of a wider strategic context, if you like, and that it needs a stronger policy context, with the best will in the world, that isn't going to be addressed in the timescales that we're looking at in terms of delivering, potentially…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
A very warm welcome to you both. We'll go straight into questions, if that's okay, and I'll kick off, if I may, starting with you, Dr Petitin. You say in written evidence that a very siloed approach is used in the scheme design. Would you be able to just…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee here at Senedd Cymru, the Welsh Parliament. We're continuing with our work of scrutinising the sustainable farming scheme, and we…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with environmental organisations
There we are. Okay. Well, can I thank you all for your attendance today, but also for the way that you've engaged in this very long, drawn-out process? I'm sure you feel that it's—. Well, it has been going on for years, but just to pay testament to the fact…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with environmental organisations
Okay, diolch yn fawr. Alex.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with environmental organisations
Sure. Okay. Thank you. Huw.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with environmental organisations
Sure.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with environmental organisations
There we are. Okay. Andrew.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with environmental organisations
Arfon.
