, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Rural Affairs, North Wales & Trefnydd
Thank you, Vikki. I'll now bring in Sarah Murphy. Sarah.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Rural Affairs, North Wales & Trefnydd
Okay. Thank you very much indeed for that. I'll now bring in Vikki Howells. Vikki.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Rural Affairs, North Wales & Trefnydd
[Inaudible.]—sustainable farming scheme: I know you intend to publish that in the next few weeks. Can you tell us whether that scheme will be based on an outcomes-based approach, or whether it'll be inputs based?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Rural Affairs, North Wales & Trefnydd
So, your intentions are, of course, as a Government, to include everything in this agriculture Bill. You won't be introducing other Bills as this Senedd term goes on.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Rural Affairs, North Wales & Trefnydd
Thank you, Minister, for those introductions, and perhaps I can just kick off this session with a general question. I know that you intend to introduce the agriculture Bill in the autumn. Now, in addition to powers to introduce farm support schemes, what else…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Rural Affairs, North Wales & Trefnydd
Welcome back to this meeting of the Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee. We'll move on now to item 4 on our agenda this morning, which is ministerial scrutiny, and the Minister that we have in front of us for this session is the Minister for Rural…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
Thanks very much indeed, Sam. Yes, unfortunately, our session has come to an end. So, thank you both for being with us this morning. It's been a very, very useful session. A copy of today's transcript will be sent to you for accuracy purposes, and if there…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
Okay. Thanks, Hefin. Thank you very much. I'll now bring in Sam Kurtz. Sam.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
Okay. Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
Yes, by all means, Nick.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
Nick.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
Thank you, Sarah. I'll now bring in Hefin David. Hefin.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
Thank you, Vikki. I'll now bring in Sarah Murphy. Sarah.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Luke. I'll now bring in Vikki Howells. Vikki.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
Thank you very much indeed for that. I'll now bring in Luke Fletcher. Luke.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
Okay, thanks. And Tori.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
Thank you very much indeed for those introductions. I'll just kick off this session just to ask you a very general question. Perhaps you can outline the likely impact of this agreement on your sector, as well as the timescales of when those impacts are likely…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
Thank you very much. And Tori Morgan.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
We'll move on, therefore, to item 3 on our agenda, which is scrutiny of the free trade agreement between the UK and New Zealand. This is the first of two panels to give evidence on the free trade agreement between New Zealand and the UK. The second panel was…
, 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. There are a number of papers to note this morning. I'm not going to go through every one of them, but are there any issues that Members would like to raise from the meeting papers? No.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you very much. Anyone else? No.
, 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. I haven't received any apologies this morning. Are there any declarations of interest that Members would like to make at all? Sam Kurtz.
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I'm grateful to you for that response. In order to provide floating offshore wind energy, and for Wales to deliver the economic, social and environmental benefits available, we need marine planning reforms to deliver projects as soon as possible. Indeed, a…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
8. What is the Welsh Government doing to support the offshore energy sector? OQ58160
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, can I ask for two statements from the Welsh Government this afternoon? Firstly, I'd be grateful if the Minister for Health and Social Services could bring forward a statement on ophthalmology services, following an increase in representations that…
