12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Thanks, Sam. Jenny would like to come in on this point.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Okay? Thank you, Jenny. I'll bring in Sam Kurtz. Sam.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Dylan.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Sorry, Jenny. Before you go on, I think Hazel might just like to come in on that issue as well.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Thank you, Sam. I'll now bring in Jenny Rathbone. Jenny.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Okay. Thank you very much. I'll now bring in Sam Kurtz. Sam.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Okay. Libby Davies.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Thank you, Hefin. Do you believe that the Welsh Ministers’ duties in relation to monitoring and reporting in Part 1 are actually sufficient to give an overall picture of progress on the sustainable land management objectives? Huw Thomas.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Dylan.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Okay, thanks. And I know that Hefin David would like to come in on this particular issue. Hefin.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Okay, thank you. And Hazel Wright, would you like to come in on this?
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Thank you very much for those introductions. Perhaps I can just kick off this session with a couple of questions. Obviously, as you know from the Bill, there are four sustainable land management objectives. Would you say that those objectives are appropriate…
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
A Huw Thomas.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Dylan Morgan.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
Diolch yn fawr. Libby Davies.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 2
We'll move on, therefore, to item 3 on the agenda, which is an evidence session. This is the second evidence session for the committee considering the general principles of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill. We're hearing today from the NFU and the Farmers Union…
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Paper(s) to note
No, we haven't, not as of yet. Are there any other declarations of interest? No.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Paper(s) to note
We'll move on, therefore, to item 2 on our agenda, which is papers to note. Are there any issues that Members would like to raise from the papers? Sam Kurtz.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you very much. Are there any other declarations of interest that Members would like to make? No.
12 October 2022 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome, everyone, to this meeting of the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee at the Senedd. I haven't received any apologies, but may I note for the record that Jenny Rathbone and Llyr Gruffydd, who are members of the Climate Change, Environment and…
12 October 2022 , Plenary
Debate on the Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee Report: Review of the Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
Now, Members such as the Member for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire and the Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd have raised the impact of implementing these regulations on farmers, in particular the financial costs. The committee understands that these…
12 October 2022 , Plenary
Debate on the Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee Report: Review of the Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
Diolch, Llywydd. Can I thank Members for contributing to this debate this afternoon? There is no mistaking just how important these regulations are, and how important it is that we set the correct balance between protecting the environment and supporting our…
12 October 2022 , Plenary
Debate on the Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee Report: Review of the Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
Diolch, Llywydd, and I move the motion tabled in my name. Llywydd, it feels like a long time ago that the Senedd unanimously passed a motion for a committee to urgently review the Welsh Government's Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales)…
11 October 2022 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, I'd be grateful for your advice in managing expectations around ministerial and Welsh Government correspondence. A constituent has contacted me after writing to the First Minister back in March 2021 because he didn't receive a response, despite…
5 October 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Major events
Hosting a major event is important, not just because of the money spent whilst the event is taking place, but also because it focuses the world's attention on Wales and provides us with an opportunity to market the whole of Wales to visitors. And so we need…
