Plaid Cymru

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2,601 speeches and questions

30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Sorry?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
I'm just conscious of time, Mike, and I'd just like to go on to—.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Of course. There we are. Thank you. I'll bring Mike Hedges in now for the last few questions.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Unless you're selling them alcohol.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
So, there wouldn't be an administrative burden, then, of exempting children?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
One thing the Cabinet Secretary did say, when we were asking about minimum age and the point about charging for children as opposed to exempting them, was that it would put a burden on you or your clients to check ages of children in your accommodations. Is…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay. Thank you.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Other platforms could potentially have a—?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Eighteen on your platform, okay. But others you know of differentiate.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
So, on your platform, is it 16 or is it 18 or—?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Eighteen, okay.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Is that 16, then?
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Yes, Alistair would like to say something.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
There we are. I'll bring Rhianon in on this now, so if we could unmute Rhianon. There we are. Thank you.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
But I'm just trying to understand your logic in that sense. Sorry.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
That's just for me to understand your thinking behind that. I don't necessarily agree, but—
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
But if the whole local authority had registered all those providers within their local authority, they'd have the information that they would need for that local authority.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Just going back to your point there, Barbara, about it being rolled out across the country before doing it in local areas, does that mean that you would not want the autonomy for local authorities to be able to decide through consultation that they bring it…
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Sam.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Rhianon. Hang on, let's just unmute. There we are. Go for it.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
I'll just bring Lisa in on this, and then Rhianon, I think, wants to come in, unless you've got anything else—
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Fine. Okay. Thank you.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
If I may just tease that out with what Carl's just said about simplicity and not checking documents, that doesn't quite compute, so—
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay. Thank you.
30 January 2025Finance Committee
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Just on that point, then, we heard from the WRA this morning, who are likely to be administering the registration process, that simplicity was something that they were keen on. Do you think that there's enough provision in the Bill to do that, bearing in mind…