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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Making Saint David's Day a bank holiday
And finally, my fifth point, our language. Everyone speaks the language with pride, and that's the exact point: the Welsh language belongs to everyone and it plays a crucial role in our heritage, our history and our culture. Yesterday, I stood here and talked…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Making Saint David's Day a bank holiday
My thanks to Darren Millar for tabling this afternoon's motion. Members of the Siambr who follow me on social media will know that this is a cause that I am incredibly passionate about. Like Rhys ab Owen, I sincerely hope we're not still here in 22 years'…
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: Alun Davies (Blaenau Gwent)—The impact of storm overflows
I'm grateful to the Member for Blaenau Gwent for bringing forward this Member's legislative proposal, as I myself had an incredibly similar MLP on improving inland water qualities here in Wales. And it's reassuring to know that, while there may be potential…
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Topical Questions
Diolch i ti, Llywydd. At this time, 210 Welsh businesses export goods to the value of £23 million to the New Zealand market, and the indication is that, across the whole of the UK, the value of this relationship is likely to increase by almost 60 per cent…
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Topical Questions
Minister, I'm grateful to the Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd for bringing this question forward today, but it is important to note and remember that this trade deal is worth much more and is much broader than agriculture alone. This isn't spin—[Interruption.]…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Minister, earlier this year I had the pleasure of visiting the National House Building Council award-winning Pludds Meadow development in Laugharne, in my constituency of Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, a site operated by Salem Construction, who are…
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Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Cymraeg 2050—The next steps
Thank you, Llywydd, and happy St David's Day to you, to the Minister and to the whole of the Chamber. I'd like to start by thanking the Minister for bringing forward this statement today, and I refer Members to my register of interests. I would also like to…
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Emergency Question: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
I'm grateful to the Member for Alyn and Deeside for tabling this topical question. Putin's Russia is a bully, and all bullies must be stood up to. Ukrainian sovereignty has been violated and innocent civilians are being killed by Putin's desire for conflict…
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Short Debate: Regenerating town and city centres in Wales: More of the same will simply not work
So, if we cast our minds back to 2010, I was still at school, Corona was just but a beer, and the people of Carmarthen welcomed Debenhams to their town centre at St Catherine's Walk. However, only 11 short years later, in May of last year, it shut, leaving a…
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Debate: The Police Settlement 2022-23
Well, this is the point that I was going to come on to. One suggestion that has been offered to me by local police officers in Dyfed-Powys Police is that the rural crime commissioners themselves, or the police and crime commissioners themselves, are able to…
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Debate: The Police Settlement 2022-23
I'll happily take an intervention.
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Debate: The Police Settlement 2022-23
I would very much like to welcome this afternoon's debate, particularly as it gives us an opportunity to recognise the steps that the UK Government has taken to protect our communities and make our neighbourhoods safer. Indeed, in my own constituency of…
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Short Debate: The more I practice, the luckier I am: Sports facilities in our rural communities
As someone who's played a whole host of sports throughout their life, from football, golf, tennis, rugby, cricket and everything else in between, this debate got me thinking back to what it was like growing up in rural west Wales. And it was often more…
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Short Debate: The more I practice, the luckier I am: Sports facilities in our rural communities
Thank you to the Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd for the opportunity to contribute.
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Debate: Draft Budget 2022-23
Well, absolutely, and we've talked in this Chamber a lot with regard to Glastir woodland creation funds going across the border to other countries that are buying up—other companies that are buying up— prime Welsh agricultural land for tree afforestation…
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Debate: Draft Budget 2022-23
I wish to refer Members to my register of interests, as I am a member of both Pembrokeshire County Council and Wales YFC. I would like to begin by thanking the Minister for bringing this debate forward, and by echoing the words of colleague, the MS for…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Brif Weinidog. A fortnight ago, Hywel Dda University Health Board signed off a programme business case for the reorganisation of healthcare services in west Wales, which, if approved and signed off by your Government, will see the creation of a new…
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Questions to the First Minister
4. What are the Welsh Government's priorities for healthcare provision in west Wales? OQ57607
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales - Annual Report scrutiny
[Inaudible.]—my ignorance on this, but with regard to decarbonisation, are you seeing established businesses coming to you asking for financial support to decarbonise, or are these new businesses looking to enter a specific field in a net-zero manner? Is…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales - Annual Report scrutiny
The remit letter sets out that the development bank is expected to play its full role in tackling the climate emergency by requiring changes to business behaviours and practices to move our economy purposefully towards net zero. So, in terms of a business…
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Development Bank of Wales - Annual Report scrutiny
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Moving on to decarbonisation and the environment, could you outline the work that is under way to measure the impact of the development bank in relation to decarbonisation and the environment, and any details on a plan to achieve net zero?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales - Annual Report scrutiny
Thank you. So, the annual report shows that 3 per cent of owner-director shareholders in the businesses the development bank has supported in 2020-21 were from ethnic minority communities. So, has the development bank undertaken any work to understand and…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development Bank of Wales - Annual Report scrutiny
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Good afternoon, gentlemen. Could you please outline what progress has been made in monitoring and reporting on the quality of jobs created by the development bank, and, if so, what metrics are used?
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Joint Fisheries Statement - Environmental Groups
Excellent. Thank you. Diolch, Cadeirydd.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Joint Fisheries Statement - Environmental Groups
Thank you. Gareth, anything to add?
