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Business Statement and Announcement
Can I ask for a statement, please, Trefnydd, from the Deputy Minister for arts and sport, who has just taken over responsibility for the tourism sector here in Wales? We know that when tourism sat under the economy Minister, the economy Minister proposed a…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Habilitation training for sight-impaired children
You mentioned the role of guide dogs there, and my mind actually took me back to the event that you mentioned that Mark Isherwood hosted in the Senedd a few weeks ago. It struck me that you can't really put a price on independence. Independence is one of…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Habilitation training for sight-impaired children
Will you take an intervention?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Invasion of Ukraine and supporting Ukrainian refugees
It's hard to believe that it's been a year since we had our last debate here in the Senedd, which was at the start of the war. It's hard to believe that a year has passed since then. I think it's equally hard to comprehend the brutality and the suffering that…
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Natural Resources Wales have recently proposed to increase charges for sheep-dip disposal by 10 times. This, I'm sure you'll be most aware, will cause barriers to eradicating sheep scab. Now, I note in your statement last month you committed £4.5 million of…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
As we heard from Hefin David there, one of the perils of increasing income tax at a time of financial trouble is the fact that it would be something built on the back of working people across Wales. And it's quite apt, I think, on the day that Nicola Sturgeon…
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
And finally, one of the things I think this whole episode also showed up was the question of who marks the homework, perhaps, of some of these things—and you've alluded to it a number of times throughout this session. I don't want to get into the merits or…
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
I understand the point you make, and there are shades of grey, of course, in all of these things. But just for clarity, when you were hearing some of these things informally that you alluded to earlier, when you saw the article—or perhaps you didn't see the…
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Because it strikes me from today and from this episode that perhaps Sport Wales isn't best placed to deal with that. And I've no doubt that your hearts are in the right place on it, but you look at this episode around the WRU, and you said earlier you had an…
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Thank you. Can I ask you both—? Tanni, you were asked about someone coming to you with a report of inappropriate behaviour within their sport. Is Sport Wales equipped to deal with that?
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
I understand the point you're making, but, just from a concern perspective, you have a relationship with the WRU, both in terms of counsel and a financial relationship. Surely, in your role, if you hear an allegation like that, regardless of how formal or not…
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with Sport Wales
You mentioned that there was nothing formal. Obviously, from the informal things you did hear in the public domain, did you do any investigative work to get to the bottom of how real those allegations were?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Free ports
Free ports are not an ideology, and they’ve changed, as I’ve just said, the economy there in Scotland, where they’ve been invested. He talked about the north-east—look at the impact it’s had in Teesside. It’s had a huge impact on a community that’s previously…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Free ports
Of course.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Free ports
After listening to Luke Fletcher and Joyce Watson, all I can say is that the anti-growth coalition is alive and well in the Senedd Chamber here today. I welcome today's debate because not only does it give me a chance— [Interruption.] You can intervene later…
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Debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee’s Report—'Pupil absence'
Can I join Vikki Howells and other colleagues by commending the committee on a really thorough piece of work, I think, into what is a very ingrained problem and one that was definitely here before COVID-19? But what's clear from the committee report is the…
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Debate: The Draft Budget 2023-24
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm not quite sure how to follow that, but what I will promise is a short contribution. I know Hefin promised it and didn't quite manage it, so I will try my best just to focus on a few key points, which I hope will give the Minister…
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
It's listed as of this morning on the WRU website as an official sponsor.
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Welsh Government is a sponsor of the WRU.
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
I'm on about the sponsorship funding from Welsh Government, not the Sport Wales funding.
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Did you threaten to withdraw the sponsorship?
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
One more question from me, finally, because I'm conscious of time is: there's been a lot of discussion obviously about the money from Welsh Government through Sport Wales, which I understand, both in grant and loan form, as you've mentioned. When the…
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Okay. And there was no mention of cultural change as a condition of that grant.
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Yes, I'm on about the grant from Sport Wales.
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Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
—that Steffan saw, for example. Why couldn't they be included in a condition of funding?
