21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 4
Building out the port, capturing the heat?
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 4
Concretely, what has the new UK Government done to strengthen the priorities for your area?
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 4
It is, but RenewableUK have said there's a danger that these projects are going to have to be built by 2030, that's their remit, and that—. Can you convince us that—? What Jessica Hooper said from Renewables UK is that we simply don't have the businesses to…
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 4
That's what we want to know.
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 4
Yes, but the challenge here, as we heard from RenewableUK, is yes, these things are going to be developed, but are they going to be using Welsh businesses to develop that pipeline, to develop the port, to develop the construction, or are they going to be…
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 4
I don't need convincing. These are very significant developments.
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 4
Can I move to Rob Stewart? We used to have something called the south Wales industrial cluster. It's gone very silent. That was a way of Swansea being part of a much bigger region that is beyond where it is thought the inward investment is working. Because we…
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 4
My question is how are we going to get around this overcentralised system where we are at the end of the food chain—Wales as a whole, not just the local authority.
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 4
But the UK Government holds the major purse strings.
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 4
Ken Poole, you obviously took action to work directly with local businesses and universities, as you perceive them the bottom of the food chain compared with the DBT and the Welsh Government. I can see that that works to some extent, but when it comes to…
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 3
Good. So—
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 3
Yes. Certainly, we had very strong evidence last week from CSconnected, that they were attracted in by the skills, the 'world-class skills', he said, from both Swansea and Cardiff universities. So, how are we going to get the people who've come in because…
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 3
You're obviously not a fan.
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 3
Okay. Fine. Professor Munday, perhaps you have a view on that.
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 3
So, taking the example of Jones Bros Civil Engineering, obviously a very important multinational player, what role have they played in enabling other businesses to grow around them in north Wales?
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 3
Okay. So, what is the role, then, of clusters more broadly, just moving away slightly from the steel conundrum?
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 3
Is it happening fast enough, though? I mean, we're going to need the steel quite quickly. These contracts have been awarded last week.
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 3
Okay. We'll come on to semiconductors in a minute. If we need to get the steel made in Wales in order to make this a coherent step forward, rather than just somebody using our seas and all the benefit going to somewhere else.
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 3
Thank you. Janis, how important are clusters as a mechanism for bringing these things together? I mean, just accept—. I mean, push back against Jessica if you disagree, but it sounds like a plan.
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 3
—the floating wind off Pembrokeshire.
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 3
The announcement around Awel y Môr and—
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 3
Okay. So, we're not going to pursue the biodiversity versus industry here; we haven't got time, unfortunately. But there was a major policy decision made last week, announced by Ed Miliband. So, mega offshore wind, enough to heat a million homes. What are…
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 3
Okay—
21 Ionawr 2026 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Mewnfuddsoddi: Panel 3
I want to go back to Jessica, first of all, because the picture you paint is very disturbing in terms of us not getting the investment we need in renewables. As somebody who was involved in the Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024, which has now been implemented…
21 Ionawr 2026 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl ar Adroddiad y Pwyllgor Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol, 'Atal iechyd gwael—gordewdra'
Roeddwn i eisiau—. Mae'r ddogfen 'Pwysau Iach: Cymru Iach' yn un bwysig, ond nid wyf yn credu bod unrhyw sôn am rôl cynhwysion wedi'u prosesu'n helaeth mewn bwyd, ac roeddwn i'n meddwl tybed a ydych chi wedi cael unrhyw drafodaeth gyda'ch cyd-Weinidogion yn y…
