, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 9
Yes, I am conscious of time, so if I can just ask you to be as succinct as possible; we've got a bit of ground to cover again. So, I'll now bring in Sam Kurtz. Sam.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 9
Thank you, Vikki.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 9
Mary.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 9
Mary.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 9
Mary, would you like to go first on that?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 9
Thanks, Sarah. I'll now bring in Vikki Howells. Vikki.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 9
That's fine. Thank you very much. I'll now bring in Sarah Murphy. Sarah.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 9
Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 9
Okay. Now, you'll be aware that there are four sustainable land management objectives. Do you believe that the four sustainable land management objectives underpinning this Bill are actually appropriate, or would you advocate any others? Mary, would you like…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 9
Okay. Thanks. Dr Petetin.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 9
Well, thank you very much, indeed, for those introductions and perhaps I'll just kick off this session with a few general questions. I just want to ask you your opinion on the definition of sustainable land management in the Bill. You'll note that the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 9
Thank you. And Mary Dobbs.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 9
No, no, it's fine.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 9
Welcome back to this meeting of the Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee. We'll move on now to item 5 on our agenda, which is our continuation of scrutiny of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill. This is the ninth evidence session that the committee has held…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Yes, thank you very much. I'm afraid that time has beaten us, so our session has come to an end. But can I take this opportunity to thank you for being with us today, giving your evidence? It'll be very useful for us as a committee in scrutinising this Bill…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Luke. I'll now bring in Sam Kurtz. Sam.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Okay. Thank you very much indeed for that clarification. Can I now bring in Luke Fletcher? Luke.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Before I bring in Luke Fletcher, I just want to come back, Ian, on the point you made about the definition of a pest controller, because it was suggested, perhaps, earlier on today in another panel, that there is no such thing as a definition of a pest…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Okay. Thank you, Vikki.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Okay.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
John.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
John, anything to add to that?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Ian.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Okay. Vikki.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Yes, of course.
