, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the EU: evidence session with other legislatures (1)
Thank you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the EU: evidence session with other legislatures (1)
Sorry, there is one other question—it may be just a broader question, really. I was listening to a very prominent Welsh musician, who was speaking on television this week, Peredur ap Gwynedd—he's a guitarist with Pendulum, which is a globally renowned rock…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the EU: evidence session with other legislatures (1)
Thank you, and I know that that's a responsibility that we're very aware of, as a committee, and one of the reasons that we're pursuing this and keeping it on the agenda, as you mentioned. One of our hopes and our intentions here is to build on much of the…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the EU: evidence session with other legislatures (1)
I fear that you're right. We never know. So, I'm just thinking, then: what role does Welsh Government have in furthering that cause? What do you think Welsh Government could contribute further, rather than just being an observer to the PPA? Is there something…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the EU: evidence session with other legislatures (1)
Thank you for that. So, we're awaiting a response to the recommendations. I'm not sure if I picked up a hopeful tinge initially in your answer to me earlier about a response. I'm not sure what the form is for responding to these kinds of recommendations. Are…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the EU: evidence session with other legislatures (1)
Okay.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the EU: evidence session with other legislatures (1)
Thank you very much, and, I have to say, the more we talk about this issue, the more ridiculous it seems, and let's hope that common sense prevails. But I note that the recommendation was agreed at the parliamentary partnership assembly before Christmas, and…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The health service
I suppose that health and Betsi Cadwaladr is the issue that I've spoken most about in the 12 years I've spent in the Siambr, and that, of course, is partly because the board has been in and out of special measures on more than one occasion, and most recently…
, Plenary
Debate: The Draft Budget 2024-25
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd, for the opportunity to contribute as committee Chair. I just wans to begin by saying a few words about the committee’s experience of this year’s draft budget scrutiny process, and I will be brief. Our ability to perform effective…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Can I ask for a statement from the health Minister, if I may, on the electronic patient record software deployment in ophthalmology across Betsi Cadwaladr? The department across Betsi was granted the OpenEyes electronic patient record software pre COVID. Its…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with other stakeholders (2)
Okay, thank you, Chair. Seimon referred earlier to the comparison with cricket, and perhaps that isn't the fairest comparison, but he did say, of course, that the number of men participating in the sport had declined, with the number of women and young people…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with other stakeholders (2)
Perhaps, in selling the rights, that they say that Wales's home matches should be available on some sort of platform.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with other stakeholders (2)
I wasn't arguing in favour of that come what may attitude, but that's the fundamental tension: that this is of such fundamental importance that other things, despite the implications, which perhaps might not be as extreme as some suggest, but who knows—. But…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with other stakeholders (2)
Thank you very much, Chair, and good morning, all. There's no doubt as to the significance of the six nations in terms of Wales's national life, but I was looking at the criteria that the DCMS looks at in terms of listed events, and it says that it has to…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
Yes. And to what extent would you be pursuing that, then? Because there are certain games—. And clearly it's the games that have the biggest financial or revenue-generating value to yourselves that are the ones the public would like to see, I suppose. So…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
Diolch. There's a danger, I think, that we think that either it's free-to-air or it's behind a paywall, and of course there are arrangements that have been made in the past for non-PSBs to actually make certain moments or matches accessible to a wider…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
I don't mind coming in after Tom.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
Yes.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
Sorry, I'm not hearing anything, Chair.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
Yes, and that's reflected in some of the written evidence that you've provided, and I think it is important that people understand, I suppose, the value of that tension. But there is no getting away from the fact that, if rugby goes behind a paywall, then…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
So, how do you strike that balance, then, because it isn't easy, is it? We all want, and you would want, rugby to be freely available and accessible to everyone, but you also want the money that comes with potentially not allowing that to happen. There will…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
I could ask you what do you think the role of Welsh rugby at six nations, particularly, is to the national life of Wales, but I think we're all agreed on its significance. But I was looking at the criteria for listed events from the Department for Culture…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Six Nations rugby broadcasting rights: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union (1)
Thank you very much. Good morning, everyone.
, 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 then we'll move into private session. So, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(vi) and (ix), I propose that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of this meeting. Are Members happy? Happy. Yes. Thank you very much. We will wait…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Papers to note
There we are. We will continue with the meeting, then. We have two papers to note under item 3. Are Members happy to note those papers? Happy. Yes. Thank you very much. Okay.
