, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
I get that, Minister. I get that.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
This isn't a policy committee, as you know, and if it were, I would be in support of the Government's ambitions; I've got no issue with the policy and with the legislation itself. My concern is the means, the mechanisms and the processes being adopted by the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
I've got no issue with opportunism in these matters, Minister. You've described that before in other pieces of legislation, and I think the Welsh Government should be commended on being opportunistic in these matters. I've got no issue with that. My issue is…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Do you have an issue with resources in your department?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
But it's not a matter for the Welsh Government to take that decision, it's a matter for the Senedd, isn't it? And if the Welsh Government were to bring this forward, I'm sure that your own party, 30 Members, would vote to support you. It's a piece of…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Why do you think that the Senedd would be hesitant to accept this as an expedited piece of legislation?
, Committee of the Whole Senedd
Group 16: Referendum on the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024 (Amendments 36, 37)
Marget Thatcher described referenda as a device of dictators and demigods. Why was she wrong?
, Committee of the Whole Senedd
Group 16: Referendum on the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024 (Amendments 36, 37)
If Swansea City FC were playing tonight, he wouldn't be making those interventions. [Laughter.] Let me say—. Let me say—. Let me say, Mike, I do accept exactly the point you made. But this is the really important point; this is why Darren avoids these…
, Committee of the Whole Senedd
Group 16: Referendum on the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024 (Amendments 36, 37)
I campaigned for a second referendum. I haven't sought to overturn the—. I've never sought to overturn, by parliamentary means, the delivery of the first referendum. What I've done—what I've done, and this is important—this is important; you should have been…
, Committee of the Whole Senedd
Group 16: Referendum on the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024 (Amendments 36, 37)
I'll take an intervention; I have one of you listening.
, Committee of the Whole Senedd
Group 16: Referendum on the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024 (Amendments 36, 37)
The Tories can't help themselves, can they, Presiding Officer? They just can't help themselves. They don't want more Welsh democracy—they want less Welsh democracy. I remember in 1997, in December 1997, the Wales Bill was introduced to the House of Commons…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
I'm grateful to you, Counsel General, for that response. I've raised here on a number of occasions the potential financial impact on the structure of the United Kingdom fiscal system of the agreement with the parties in Northern Ireland. And it is a great…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
12. What assessment has the Counsel General made of the potential impact on Wales of the Northern Ireland agreement and the Safeguarding the Union command paper? OQ60796
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
I'm grateful to you for that, Counsel General. We have, over the last few years, debated and discussed a number of legislative consent Orders and motions and memoranda coming in front of this place. And we have seen an increase in terms of the UK Government…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
9. Will the Counsel General make a statement on what legal advice is available to Ministers? OQ60783
, Committee of the Whole Senedd
Group 8: Voting system at Senedd general elections and allocation of seats (Amendments 21, 51, 22, 23, 117, 31, 32)
I've listened to you. I've listened to the arguments around a flexible list this afternoon, and I have to say, I'm sorry, I haven't been persuaded by them in what I've heard in the debate today. But what I am persuaded of—and this is the point I want to make…
, Committee of the Whole Senedd
Group 8: Voting system at Senedd general elections and allocation of seats (Amendments 21, 51, 22, 23, 117, 31, 32)
It is the 'head' bit, if you like, that has persuaded me to compromise with my colleagues, who are not as persuaded as you are, who are not as persuaded as I am, of the need for STV. Now, as I look at you, Jane, I look past Mike Hedges, who is not known as…
, Committee of the Whole Senedd
Group 8: Voting system at Senedd general elections and allocation of seats (Amendments 21, 51, 22, 23, 117, 31, 32)
I knew you were going to say that. I should never take interventions. [Laughter.]
, Committee of the Whole Senedd
Group 8: Voting system at Senedd general elections and allocation of seats (Amendments 21, 51, 22, 23, 117, 31, 32)
I'm grateful to you, Presiding Officer. I'll intervene very briefly in this debate this evening. In many ways, I would agree with much of what has just been said by the Liberal Democrats here. I would like to be making a speech in favour of STV this evening…
, Committee of the Whole Senedd
Group 7: Review of possible job sharing of offices relating to the Senedd (Amendments 4, 62, 63)
I've been listening to your contribution, and I've been listening to the way you pursued your argument. I have to say I would support job sharing because it would enable people to participate in politics who perhaps aren't able to do so today. But I really…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, we know what the pressures are that are facing farmers: increased red tape, a worsening economic situation, damaging free trade deals, a trail of broken promises. And we know that because that was in Farmers Weekly. Farmers Weekly demonstrated…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Sustainable Farming Scheme
So you don't see yourself as a leader.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Sustainable Farming Scheme
Do you think it helps the debate to use rhetoric of that sort?
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Sustainable Farming Scheme
Will you take an intervention?
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Sustainable Farming Scheme
I'm grateful to you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I welcome the tone of the leader of the opposition in his words this afternoon? I think it's very important that we do adopt that tone. I very much welcome the way in which James Evans opened the debate this…
