, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
Yes. Yes, please.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
Okay, thank you. Thank you for that explanation. I think we'll move on now to Delyth. Diolch.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
Yes, please do.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
Yes. Thank you. That's an important context. I'll come to Delyth in a moment. I just want to ask one other question about savings within the department. Clearly, we're aware, having scrutinised other Ministers, that there's an emphasis on reducing bureaucracy…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
Yes. Okay. Thank you for that. That's really useful. Dean.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
There we are. And Deputy Minister.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
Thank you for that. I think a number of people will be quite shocked, or surprised maybe, at what you said in terms of the potential closure of whole services or whole lines in relation to rail, and that that is a realistic prospect. Do you think that the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
Okay. And we'll come on to that, we'll drill down a little bit into that, later on. So, last year, additional funding to support rail came from within the transport budget lines. But, of course, the draft budget now reallocates funding from across the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
Okay. So, giving with one hand, taking with the other, and they're left with £110 million.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
So, it's not £150 million additional funds in their coffers, then, is it? It's £110 million.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
No, and I appreciate that, and, as I say, it's a matter of taking the learning from what has happened and making sure that we don't find ourselves in a similar position in future. Okay. So, we'll move straight into questions, and I'll kick off, if I may…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
Okay. On we go to the main focus of this morning's meeting, which is scrutiny of the Welsh Government draft budget for 2024-25. We'll be taking evidence this morning from the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change on that draft budget, where it…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Good morning. Welcome, all, to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee at the Senedd. This is a meeting held in hybrid format, and, aside from the adaptations related to conducting proceedings in that hybrid format, all…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
But not necessarily reflected in the final scheme—is that what you're saying? Because, clearly, if you want people to sign up to the sustainable farming scheme—and it's something we all want to see, in terms of the outcomes for nature and climate and the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Diolch, Llywydd. Back in December, Minister, in scrutiny committee, I asked you in what way will the sustainable farming scheme recognise the potential devaluation of farmland caused by the requirement to plant trees on it. Because, obviously, there's a…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
I've been approached by some egg producers in my region concerned at the impact on the sale of free-range eggs under avian influenza mandatory housing measures; I know you touched on this in committee last week. You'll know that the proposed changes in…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union
Okay. Thank you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union
Okay. Just finally, which aspect of culture change do you think is most difficult? When you look at the list of jobs—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union
And I don't think anybody denies that rugby, like other spheres, is beholden to many of the societal challenges that we face, but we all have a part to play, and we mustn't absolve our responsibilities in that respect. On the transparency policy that's…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union
Thank you for that. Clearly, culture change has been recognised and needs to happen on a number of levels. You've talked about the changes to the board, with big changes there, so you'd expect a new culture and a new outlook emanating from that. You touched…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union
Yes, because I was going to ask you about how you take the temperature within the organisation. Now, clearly, in the paper that you've supplied to us, which is your review response—the paper that we received this week—there's a target of 30 June, I think, for…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union
Yes, sure.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union
Bore da. How would you characterise the atmosphere among staff working at the WRU today?
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
May we have a statement from you as the Minister for rural affairs responding to the item that was broadcast on the programme Ffermio on S4C last night? Wyn and Enid Davies from Capel Isaac in Carmarthenshire explained how they have had to cull 180 cattle in…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
You will be aware that I and a number of my colleagues have raised with you and relevant Ministers regularly issues around the whole LDP process in Wrexham, which came to a head recently. And now that we find that that has come to some sort of resolution, on…
