, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
Diolch. In the RIA, the main area of uncertainty related to the decisions regarding the organisation of Senedd business, which is not going to be known until the start of the seventh Senedd. What impact could those have on your cost estimates? So, there are…
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
Obviously, with any process, you get disagreements and not necessarily seeing eye to eye on different things. Are there any concerns that you've got with these cost estimates that have been included in the evidence, whether or not there's anything that you…
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
And then some of the things that Manon was talking about—how that dialogue happened and what changed as things were going along.
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
Just before I go to Alun, the assumptions that you made, in reading the RIA, have those assumptions been carried forward into the RIA, or has the Government made different assumptions? That's something maybe you could talk about, as well.
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
Thank you. In that dialogue, you worked on certain assumptions. How did you go about doing that, and how did you come to an agreement on what those assumptions should be? You mentioned that, over time, you had to revise things; could you elaborate a little…
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
Thank you, Ken. Manon, did you want to add anything to that?
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you very much. I'd like to, before we begin, welcome Professor Ailsa Henderson as the committee's expert adviser on the financial implications of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill. Professor Henderson is professor of…
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
Kate.
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
Diolch, Ken. Manon.
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
Can you please state your names and roles for the record? Maybe we can start with Ken online. Could we unmute Ken please? There we are.
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
Welcome to you.
, Finance Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Commission
The main substantive item this morning is the first of our evidence sessions this morning, which is the one with the Senedd Commission.
, Finance Committee
Papers to note
We'll move on, therefore, to the first item, which is to note the papers that we have before us. Is everyone content to note those? Yes. Great. So, we've noted those. So, we'll move on.
, Finance Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning and welcome to this meeting of the Finance Committee. It's great to see you all here this morning. This meeting is being broadcast live on Senedd.tv and a Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. We've received apologies from Rhianon…
, Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill to promote responsible dog ownership
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you to everybody who's taken part in this debate. It has been a particularly respectful and excellent debate in handling an issue that is something that we all have to grapple with in all our constituencies and in all our…
, Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill to promote responsible dog ownership
Wales is a nation of dog lovers. What was already a special bond between owner and our four-legged friends deepened during the coronavirus pandemic with the restrictions that came with it. Many people also became dog owners for the first time during those…
, Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill to promote responsible dog ownership
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm pleased to move this motion this afternoon. It's a very important motion for our communities across Wales.
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I know this has been discussed widely, especially, I know, Plaid Cymru members across north Wales have been talking about this—not just these two particular stations, but other stations as well. Looking at what we've got here, I think it…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
I'd agree with Rhys. I've had discussions about this with constituents and I know that other Members—and Rhun ap Iorwerth in particular—have raised this with me. I think it'll be useful to look at the letter and to write to Government to get some further…
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - Panel 2 - P-06-1335 Welsh Government should take steps to ensure vulnerable adults without bank cards can pay with cash
Thank you very much.
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - Panel 2 - P-06-1335 Welsh Government should take steps to ensure vulnerable adults without bank cards can pay with cash
Just following on from Rhys's line of questioning there, and something that I was aware of, but I've just checked online now and it seems to have come to an end—Bristol had a local currency for a while, and other places have experimented with that. Is there…
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - Panel 2 - P-06-1335 Welsh Government should take steps to ensure vulnerable adults without bank cards can pay with cash
Okay. Diolch.
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - Panel 2 - P-06-1335 Welsh Government should take steps to ensure vulnerable adults without bank cards can pay with cash
In the high street, in your high street, how many of the businesses have gone cashless? And do you get business because they can't go somewhere else and so they come to you? Is there any anecdotal evidence like that?
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - Panel 2 - P-06-1335 Welsh Government should take steps to ensure vulnerable adults without bank cards can pay with cash
Yes.
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - Panel 2 - P-06-1335 Welsh Government should take steps to ensure vulnerable adults without bank cards can pay with cash
What's your experience, Trudy, with your business? Are you cashless, or are you mainly cash based?
