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Questions to the First Minister
In your last Senedd manifesto, your party committed to enshrining the United Nations convention on the rights of disabled people, which utilises the social model of disability, into Welsh law. We are now in 2023 and, despite the establishment of the…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for the response.
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Questions to the First Minister
2. What progress has the Government made in achieving equality for disabled people? OQ59581
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Short Debate: Why Wales needs a strategic plan to prioritise brain tumour research
Thank you very much for bringing this debate. And I echo a lot of what has been said already. When I read the topic of this debate last week, it triggered a painful memory. I was transported to a phone call that I had with my brother in December 2014. He'd…
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Short Debate: Why Wales needs a strategic plan to prioritise brain tumour research
Thank you very much, Peter, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this debate.
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Sorry, okay. Does the Minister therefore agree that it should be a democratic imperative for any Government to ensure that the ability to vote is as accessible as possible? And could he confirm that the Welsh Government will not seek to replicate voter ID…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Yes, thank you very much for that answer. I'd like now to turn to another example of the Tory Government legislating in bad faith, namely the Elections Act 2022, which has implemented the new voter identification requirements for UK-wide elections. As has…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Thank you for that response.
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. The arrest of scores of peaceful protestors at the coronation marks the latest chilling chapter in this Conservative Government's clamp down on civic dissent. As has been the case for some time, there are no more prolific purveyors of…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
It will be no surprise to hear that Plaid Cymru is in favour of the care leavers basic income pilot, and there's pleasure that the pilot is ongoing. That has been replaced by disgust at some of the ways that Tory Members across the floor from me have twisted…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Electoral Reform
Much like the national and UK level, electoral reform in local government is long overdue. Plaid Cymru has consistently emphasised the need to dispense with the first-past-the-post electoral system, and move towards a more proportional model, befitting of the…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Electoral Reform
Thank you to the Counsel General for the statement and for advance sight of the statement.
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you.
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
But the point is that we've got the opportunity to do so, isn't it—
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Is three years, yes. The Bill contains provisions for Welsh Ministers to make subordinate legislation. Sections 16(2), 24(1)—a number of them—allow the Welsh Ministers to make regulations using the negative resolution procedure. Why do you consider it to be…
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Using targets as an incremental tool to improve and change behaviour and then by having that in regulations to be able to increment it up, yes, it would be a judgment call as to when that would be, and, yes, I'd like to see these as soon as possible, as soon…
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
—but that you can have an imperfect model and improve a system using an imperfect model and improve the model as you're going along. So, it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation, but you've got to take a point at one point and say, 'Well, you've got the…
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Timescales, yes. [Laughter.] Having studied systems engineering at university, I quite like data and targets and all that sort of stuff, and I was always taught that a model is only as good as the data—
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay, thank you. Can you explain why you decided against consulting on the draft Bill, particularly given the comments within the explanatory memorandum that the means of delivering some of your White Paper proposals have changed? So, what discussions—?…
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Is the power too broad, though, or are you content that it's broad enough to capture that without being Henry VIII powers and that sort of thing?
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. The explanatory memorandum states that: 'Existing legislative requirements regarding air quality information and awareness are limited and centred around compliance with legal limits and targets.' How does this Bill change that position, and could…
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
Afternoon, Minister. What does this Bill enable you to do that you can't do with the existing legislative framework we've got?
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Debate on the Petitions Committee Report—'From Five to Four? P-06-1247 Support trials of a four-day week in Wales'
It's great to have a chance to speak in this debate on a subject that is close to my heart. Last summer, thanks to Luke Fletcher's friend getting married and him having to attend that, I was able to attend a conference on his behalf in Valencia, funded by the…
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Debate on the Petitions Committee Report—'From Five to Four? P-06-1247 Support trials of a four-day week in Wales'
Thank you to the committee for bringing this debate forward this afternoon.
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Topical Questions
Thank you for the update, Minister. I also want to express my grave concerns about the future of Tillery Valley Foods Ltd, and, as Alun said, it's one of the biggest and best employers that we've had in the wider area. One company employee, who has been in…
