, Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, and Estimate 2024-25: Evidence session
Diolch yn fawr.
, Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, and Estimate 2024-25: Evidence session
Diolch yn fawr. Chris.
, Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, and Estimate 2024-25: Evidence session
So, we move on to item No. 3, and this morning we've got the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales, and it's a scrutiny session on the annual report and accounts. As you're aware, this session's being broadcast live on Senedd.tv, so hello to everybody at home…
, Finance Committee
Papers to note
We've got some papers to note. I'll ask if we can note them, unless somebody has anything—. I think there are some things that will come up later on in public and in private, so we'll cover those off.
, Finance Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Diolch yn fawr. Great, okay, so that's that.
, Finance Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning. We will be starting the meeting now. Welcome to this meeting of the Finance Committee. We're all present. There have been no apologies this morning. I wanted to ask whether anyone had any declarations of interest.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Update on 2023-24 Financial Position
Diolch, Minister, for your statement. I welcome the Minister's update on the Welsh Government's financial position, and we're pleased that additional funds have been earmarked to support health services and public transport. But, given that the Welsh…
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
Thank you very much for coming.
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
Of course. Thank you very much. So, as I said earlier, under the Standing Order, we'll now go into private for our last session.
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
Okay. Thank you very much. Unless anybody has got any further questions, thank you so much for making time to come and give evidence to us. It's very much appreciated and, yes, it's good to get your views on this, and especially because we don't get to see…
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
Yes. Obviously, the Commission is going through a series of looking at reducing costs and things. I'm making an assumption that you do the same within the remuneration board as well, and looking across the Senedd estate and, obviously, at the impact that your…
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
No problem. Thank you, Mike. That's good to put on there. I'm just wondering, from this committee's point of view—obviously we don't scrutinise your budget, but we look at that as a quantum when it comes as part of the Commission's budget—is there anything…
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
Great. Thank you very much. The discussion that you were having with Alun is really interesting and it's understanding more about how you come to decisions and doing that. Obviously, we get correspondence from you regularly and I know you do other meetings…
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
'Yes'. There we are, Mike.
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
Diolch. Mike, I'll bring you in now.
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
Daniel, did you want to come in on that?
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
I think Daniel—. Sorry.
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
Alun.
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
Okay. Thank you very much. Peter.
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
Excellent, and—
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
Great. Okay. So, the RIA—. In preparation of the estimates, the Senedd Commission adopted those common assumptions with you. To what extent does the RIA now reflect the assumptions that you had when you first started?
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
And did you agree with their assumptions? Obviously, when you were in those discussions, you managed to get to a point where you agreed both assumptions.
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
Diolch. Thank you very much. Obviously, this session is going to be recorded and a transcript will be sent you for accuracy afterwards. We've only got half an hour or so, so we'll crack on and hopefully get through all our questions. If we don't, then, we…
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
Good morning.
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Independent Remuneration Board of the Senedd
Welcome to this session on the independent remuneration board and the evidence session on this Bill. Could I ask you to introduce yourselves for the record, please?
