, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
Okay, thank you. Any of your colleagues—? No. So, moving on to section 2 of the Bill, which places a duty on the Welsh Ministers to ensure that local authorities receive sufficient funding to pay schools so that a course of residential outdoor education can…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
Okay. So, following on from what the Minister suggested on the twenty-second, in your opinion, is there anything in addition to that that can be suggested?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
I'm grateful for that. Any other of your colleagues want to—? No. So, moving on to the next question, the Bill requires the Welsh Ministers to 'take all reasonable steps' to ensure that a course of residential outdoor education is provided to all pupils in a…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
So, on that point, then, you're quite comfortable that there could be inconsistent interpretations by local authorities and by local schools, given that it is the headteacher and the teachers who understand their pupils and therefore would deliver, or look to…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
Thank you. So, moving on on that, in terms of residential outdoor education and its definition, now, your explanatory memorandum contains a discussion around its meaning, but you've not included a definition on the face of the Bill. I was just wondering why.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
Thank you very much, Chair. Prynhawn da, bob un; prynhawn da, Sam. So, do you feel that the Bill achieves the necessary balance between what is on its face and what is left for Welsh Ministers to set through subordinate legislation?
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Six Nations rugby broadcasting
I think that's a really important point, and that could be something that has started from this debate this afternoon and the Welsh Affairs Select Committee's inquiry into this: is there an opportunity for us to have a bespoke model for the Welsh six nations…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Six Nations rugby broadcasting
—and the importance of the Welsh language in broadcasting. That's a vital point.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Six Nations rugby broadcasting
We are clearly, as a party here in Wales on this side of the benches, calling for the UK Government to do something here for us in Wales, which I think should be welcomed by the Plaid Cymru Members of the Senedd opposing us this evening. But, Heledd did raise…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Six Nations rugby broadcasting
I think the fact we're holding this debate this evening is exactly the case in point.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Six Nations rugby broadcasting
It's a pleasure for me as a proud Welshman, a proud rugby player—just about—to be able to close this debate this evening. In opening, Tom Giffard talked about the similarities between cricket and rugby in terms of participation once a sport moves behind a…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Six Nations rugby broadcasting
Thank you, Llywydd. It's a pleasure to conclude today's debate.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
Thank you, Minister, and I'm grateful for your commitment that digital inclusion is a social justice issue, because digital inclusion involves proficient and equitable access to, and use of, information and communication technologies that enable participation…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
2. What action is the Welsh Government taking to improve digital inclusion in Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire? OQ60612
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales inquiry: Panel 1 - Welsh Perspective
Thank you. Diolch, Cadeirydd.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales inquiry: Panel 1 - Welsh Perspective
Okay, thank you, Tegid. Dylan, coming back to you, you mentioned in your introduction, 2013, former Minister Hart's there at the beginning, looking at a development bank for Wales or what could come to support business in Wales. A decade on, what's happened…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales inquiry: Panel 1 - Welsh Perspective
Tegid, your thoughts.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales inquiry: Panel 1 - Welsh Perspective
Thank you. You've mentioned the analogy of holding up a mirror to what Welsh Government's priorities are and the bank reflecting that. On Welsh Government's drive towards net-zero carbon in Wales, the development bank have spoken at length, when they've…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales inquiry: Panel 1 - Welsh Perspective
Okay.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales inquiry: Panel 1 - Welsh Perspective
Just parking that, then, and moving on to a point that Tegid made with regard to succession and the role of the bank in that. I know that Cwmpas have suggested to the committee in their evidence that the language should be strengthened. I just wonder, Dylan…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales inquiry: Panel 1 - Welsh Perspective
That was inevitably what I was going to be asking, in terms of whether there's anything that the Development Bank of Wales could streamline, cut, to ensure that its core services were delivered more strongly. But I'm happy for that to be included in future…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales inquiry: Panel 1 - Welsh Perspective
Thanks, Chair. Yes, Alun.
, Plenary
Debate: The Welsh Language Commissioner’s Annual Report 2022-23
In an evidence session to a Senedd committee, the new commissioner stated that, 'the people of Wales want to do more than just deal with public authorities through the medium of Welsh.' I'd like to know what success there's been in delivering this ambition…
, Plenary
Debate: The Welsh Language Commissioner’s Annual Report 2022-23
I'll start my contribution today by thanking Efa Gruffudd Jones for publishing this annual report, her first since undertaking this role on a permanent basis, and the first of many, hopefully. I'm fortunate, like you, Minister, to be able to use the Welsh…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd: BlasCymru/TasteWales
Despite prolonged and drawn-out criticisms from this Government of our leave of the EU, the value of our Welsh food and drink exports to the EU reached record highs in 2022, when they hit £594 million—a £130 million increase from 2021. Alongside this, the…
