19 October 2026 , Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Annual scrutiny session with the National Library of Wales
Well, I was in Oriel Môn on Saturday, and, yes, there are great exhibitions there. But what I'm saying is: couldn't more use be made—? And I did ask it last time; I don't think I asked it in such a way that there was only one answer to it, or two…
19 October 2026 , Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Annual scrutiny session with the National Library of Wales
Sorry, I'd better unmute myself. Can I say how pleased I was to hear that you're using 10 galleries across Wales? Far too often, anything to do with culture is one big building somewhere, normally in Cardiff. What I was going to ask is: what is the…
19 October 2026 , Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Annual scrutiny session with Amguedda Cymru
Diolch, Gadeirydd. Have you considered taking, for example, one room in the Glynn Vivian and keeping it there as part of a contemporary art gallery? If you know the Glynn Vivian, there are lots of rooms in there—actually having one of those rooms as part of a…
14 October 2026 , Plenary
Reform UK Debate: Local referendums on council tax rises
Do you want to go around telling elderly people they can't have home care support because you want to save money?
14 October 2026 , Plenary
Reform UK Debate: Local referendums on council tax rises
Well, we'll find out next May how few of you will survive in local government, and we'll find out in three years' time how few of you are here. Can I suggest you start looking at council by-elections and, if you go back, how long it is since you last won one?
14 October 2026 , Plenary
Reform UK Debate: Local referendums on council tax rises
I can understand—. I understand your position: you want to privatise everything. You want the parents to pay for everything. You want them to pay for everything and you don't want the taxpayer to pay for it. [Interruption.]
14 October 2026 , Plenary
Reform UK Debate: Local referendums on council tax rises
I've never heard people speak in a debate with so much ignorance. I will just respond to one thing. There's the Welsh purchasing consortium, where local authorities get together to buy things cheaply between themselves. Local government provides many of the…
14 October 2026 , Plenary
Welsh Labour Debate: Palliative and end-of-life care
I have visited Tŷ Olwen Hospice both as a relative and also as a Senedd representative of the area in which Tŷ Olwen is based. The issue that got me considering palliative care in detail, and hospices, was the assisted dying debate. The lack of adequate…
14 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport
Thank you very much for that answer. As you may remember, in November 2024, the then Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership, Jack Sargeant, took part in a landmark event in the Senedd to promote Wales's thriving esports industry and the…
14 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I want to raise a question on esports, which, as most people I think know, is short for electronic sports, which refers to organised competitive video gaming where individuals or teams compete in specific games for prizes…
13 October 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Rural Resilience and Sustainability: Winter preparedness: Be flood ready
We've just had the warmest summer of the rest of our lives. According to public documents, we have had more flooding in the first 25 years of the twenty-first century than the whole of the twentieth century. Whilst flooding is not as annually predictable as…
6 October 2026 , Plenary
Debate: Fiscal Reform
Every local authority in Britain can move money into and out of reserves. This includes town and community councils and it actually includes school governing bodies, who can also move money into and out of reserves. No controls, no rules. It's their money…
6 October 2026 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I'm requesting a Government statement on its tourism strategy. A strategy is not saying that tourism is important to the Welsh economy and that we want it. Which tourism sectors does the Welsh Government think are important? How are they going to target…
6 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I'm a Swansea City Association Football Club supporter and I remember the effect that playing in the premiership, winning the league cup and qualifying in Europe had on the image of Swansea. I drove down Mumbles Road one Saturday morning and a huge crowd of…
1 October 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and from the whole of the meeting on 8 October
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1 October 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Follow-up inquiry into Empty Properties: Evidence session 3
Okay. Thank you.
1 October 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Follow-up inquiry into Empty Properties: Evidence session 3
How do we get like the rest of western Europe and North America? I mean, in areas like New York, co-operative housing is popular. The Dakota building, where John Lennon lived—. There certainly weren't only poor people living in those type of houses. You've…
1 October 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Follow-up inquiry into Empty Properties: Evidence session 3
Perhaps I should say I'm a member of the Co-operative Party, and I've written quite extensively on co-operative housing in terms of pamphlets and articles. The Welsh Government, I would say, following my continual pressure on co-operative housing or out of…
1 October 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Follow-up inquiry into Empty Properties: Evidence session 3
I agree with you, and we just need a community right to buy.
1 October 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Follow-up inquiry into Empty Properties: Evidence session 3
I'll finish with this—it's the last thing. There are lots of chapels and lots of pubs, not only in town centre areas, that have been a lifestyle choice by people. Chapels have far fewer people going to them now, pubs have far fewer people going to them now…
1 October 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Follow-up inquiry into Empty Properties: Evidence session 3
I will just mention my experience. There's an empty home not too far from where I live. It's empty because it has been inherited by two siblings, and one doesn't want the other one to get any money.
1 October 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Follow-up inquiry into Empty Properties: Evidence session 3
More often than that, there are all sorts of reasons, from people getting planning permission to make changes, or it used to be one house and it's now been made two houses, and although it's showing as a property, it actually was part of the first property…
1 October 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Follow-up inquiry into Empty Properties: Evidence session 3
I think it's probably more significant than what you're telling us.
1 October 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Follow-up inquiry into Empty Properties: Evidence session 3
We've dealt with the 'what', haven't we, although we might not agree exactly how many there are. But then there's the 'why'. I think Chris mentioned earlier that people are in hospital or in nursing homes long term, and they would say they still lived at that…
1 October 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Scrutiny of the Cabinet Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning on the Representation of the People (Electoral Registration without Applications) (Electoral Reform) (Wales) Regulations 2026
And finally from me: some women, when they get married, change their name to their husband's surname. That's their decision; I'm not going to say whether it's right or wrong, but some people do that. You may have two of somebody there, especially if they got…
