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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, Dŵr Cymru has a programme of action and investment to tackle pollution from its treatment works on the River Tawe. Other forms of pollution, including agriculture and abandoned metal mine pollution, are addressed through Natural Resources Wales. All…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank the Member for drawing attention to the fantastic conjunction at Prestatyn of the coastal path and north-south route as well. He will know that the path has been consistently featured in national awards and leading international travel guides—the…
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Questions to the First Minister
I completely agree with John Griffiths, Llywydd. It is a fantastic national asset. I well remember his involvement at the very beginning and, 10 years on, the Welsh Government want to build further on the achievement of the path, and we've asked Huw…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank John Griffiths, Llywydd. Plans for the Wales coastal path anniversary are well advanced. In all parts of Wales, new ideas to reach new audiences will celebrate this iconic achievement of the devolution era, including, of course, new opportunities for…
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Questions to the First Minister
Let me begin, Llywydd, by agreeing with something that Adam Price said, because I don't think—. I didn't meant to characterise this discussion as though the Welsh Government's mind was closed on all of this, because he is right that knowledge is developing…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, I think there are many downsides to that strategy. I don't have the evidence that the Member refers to; I don't know what he means by many people going private, and I certainly don't recognise the view that it is generally held by patients that GPs are…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, that would not be a matter for Ministers, I think, to take such a decision without the advice they would need, and I've seen no advice directly of that sort. But I do agree with what Adam Price has said about the importance of long COVID. The…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I've answered this question from Members from the Conservative Party time and time and time again, and I'm not intending to just repeat what I've said to them on those many occasions. What would it take for us to have a Wales-wide inquiry would…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, what Paul Davies said at the beginning points to the whole dilemma here, doesn't it? Hospitals continue to have to deal with very significant numbers of patients who have contracted coronavirus—over 1,000 beds still in the NHS are in that…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, I think the health Minister is right that, in the short run, we're yet to see in the figures published so far the impact of the omicron wave and the need to divert health service resources to the vaccination programme carried out during December. So…
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Questions to the First Minister
Yes, diolch, Llywydd. I thank the Member for that question. Of course, I do welcome very much the growth in Welsh-medium provision in the county of Monmouth and congratulate those who are involved in fostering that growth. It's not that long ago the National…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, I thank Delyth Jewell for that supplementary question. And it's wonderful to have such a question on the day where we are celebrating the centenary of the Urdd, which, of course, has done so much work to promote the Welsh language among young people. As…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you very much to Delyth Jewell for that question, Llywydd. Demand for Welsh-medium education remains high in the region. The local authorities are about to present to Welsh Ministers their 10-year plan, setting out how they intend to grow Welsh-medium…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Ken Skates for that, Llywydd. He makes an important point—that tree planting is part of the natural flood defences that we are keen to promote as a Welsh Government. I thank him for drawing attention to our scheme to encourage tree planting by every…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Darren Millar for that question, Llywydd. He raises a number of important issues. He's right, of course—Conwy County Borough Council is the flood risk management authority for those stretches of the coast, Kinmel Bay to Llanddulas, and the other…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I thank Llyr Gruffydd for those questions. One of the reasons why we have provided more revenue in the system is to help local authorities to prepare bids for funding to carry out work where that work is necessary. And we recognise the fact…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, in line with the co-operation agreement, our draft budget sets out increases in both capital and revenue funding for flood and coastal defences across Wales, as we respond to the challenges of climate change.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
Thank you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
I'm happy to discuss it, of course, Chair, but there is a specific committee that meets every half term that scrutinises everything that I do, and I know that I am responsible for work in this particular area, but I'm responsible for everything that the…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
Yes, of course, we will have to find money to support that work. The role is a part-time role, two days a week for a period of two years. In addition to the funding for the individual involved in that work, of course, he will be travelling to Brussels and…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
Well, performance linked to international offices is measured monthly. Those are internal management measures, so there is a report every month from every office, in which they set out the activities that they've undertaken against the major objectives that…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
Yes. This is not a guarantee that the current disposition of things is frozen. It's always a bit dynamic: people come, people get other jobs, you're dealing with them that way, and priorities change. So, next year, we will move on from our Wales in Germany…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
Well, we will sustain them at their current level and there are ways in which we can accommodate that. You have to look at the whole range of costs—staff costs, accommodation costs, running costs and so on—but within the global sum, the £5.5 million that we…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
Yes. There is nothing that we are planning to do next year that we are not going to be able to do because of the budget position.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: International Relations
Well, the budget goes up, Chair, in cash terms, modestly, by £0.25 million. Of course, Hefin David is right that even when you add that in, in real terms, that is less than we would have had in the last financial year. But the way that we will deal with it is…
