Sport and major events

Delyth JewellPlaid

23 June 2022, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Ministerial scrutiny

…go straight into questions, if that's all right. We're delighted, all of us, of course, that the men's football team have qualified for the final stages of the football world cup. Could you talk us through the work's that's been started and the work that will go on about how we can maximise to get…

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Delyth JewellPlaid

23 June 2022, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Papers to note

…from the Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in the UK Government to the Chair of the Children, Young People, and Education Committee, which has been copied to us. Item 2.3 is a letter from the Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport, and Chief…

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Gareth DaviesConservative

22 June 2022, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network

…earlier today, the Minister for Climate Change addressed my concerns about poor forward planning during major events such as Chester races and sports events, with crowded carriages on the north Wales line, by deflecting the blame to Network Rail, despite this being under the scope of Transport for…

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Natasha AsgharConservative

22 June 2022, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network

…was good. Overcrowding on trains has been an issue for a considerable length of time, particularly when major events have taken place in Cardiff, such as we saw only a couple of weeks ago with the Ed Sheeran and Tom Jones concerts. More than 11,000 services have been cancelled by Transport for Wales…

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Mabon ap GwynforPlaid

22 June 2022, Plenary

Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Empowering communities

…would derive from this, or imagine a Wales with thriving co-operative shops, cinemas, allotments, leisure centres, creating quality jobs, with profits locked into the community. I do welcome the contribution made by the Minister, and I'm pleased to hear that the Minister won't be opposing the…

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Rhianon PassmoreLabour

22 June 2022, Plenary

Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Empowering communities

…communities is about having the funding within those communities so that we have libraries and leisure centres and vibrant schools, and would you say that the austerity agenda, deliberate cuts to Wales, has diminished that capacity?

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Heledd FychanPlaid

22 June 2022, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language

…2020 have missed out on practical opportunities to apply their learning, with the majority coming from sports courses. Given that Volunteers Week happened at the beginning of this month, do you agree, Minister, that we must ensure that these opportunities are more broadly available to learners—I…

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Paul DaviesConservative

22 June 2022, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language

…provides local opportunities for young people in Pembrokeshire who want a career in education, sport or leisure, and helps to meet the skills gap in those sectors. So, Minister, will you join me in applauding Haverfordwest County AFC on their work to support and nurture young people by delivering…

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Rev Aled Edwards

22 June 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

Housing Ukrainian refugees—evidence session 2

…you can give that care to families, but having them to be happy, to feel settled, supporting the Welsh football team, the rugby team, going to eisteddfodau and feeling at home is something that is progressive. We've adapted those experiences to other places in Wales in the Urdd regime. They went to…

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Hannah BlythynLabour

21 June 2022, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Pride, and Progress on the LGBTQ+ Action Plan

…agree with your comments. If I touch first perhaps on what you said around transgender people in sport, and that is something that seems to have—. Like you say, I actually happily missed Nadine Dorries's comments, but I will go and look at that and see what she said once again. But, I think, one of…

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Sioned WilliamsPlaid

21 June 2022, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Pride, and Progress on the LGBTQ+ Action Plan

…whether you agree with it as a method of ensuring fairness or not, is emboldening those who are using sport as a cover for their transphobia and prejudice. When considered together with the mental health issues and suicide rates for trans people, and the tiny proportion of trans athletes who compete…

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Cefin CampbellPlaid

15 June 2022, Plenary

90-second Statements

…to Phil Bennett, who passed away at the age of 73 over the weekend. Phil was one of the best ever rugby players to represent Wales, the Lions and the Barbarians. For those of us who had the privilege of seeing him play in the red shirt of Llanelli or Wales, it was a feast for the eyes. The way that…

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