Welsh Labour

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Speeches and questions in Plenary and in committees, newest first. The Llywydd's and deputies' chairing of Plenary is left out.

2,355 speeches and questions

16 October 2024Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Council-owned farms
I was on an agricultural panel when I was a county councillor, and we used to interview new tenants for council farms and also look at any farms that may come up for disposal. Some of the farms we visited needed investment, and I was surprised that they were…
16 October 2024Plenary
Debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee Report, 'Implementation of education reforms: Interim report'
I'd like to start by thanking the Chair for bringing forward this debate and all Members on the Children, Young People and Education Committee for all their hard work on this important topic. The Petitions Committee has been considering a number of petitions…
16 October 2024Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill relating to planning processes for quarry development
As Chair of the Petitions Committee, I wanted to draw your attention to a petition that will be considered by the committee in a few weeks’ time. The petition has 1,585 signatures, 79 per cent of which come from South Wales Central, showing the concentration…
16 October 2024Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
Thank you for that answer. This has come from the fact that we went as a committee to Ireland and we saw the history there of their wonderful buildings and how they link to the past. I brought my mum on a visit to the Bay and I asked her where would she like…
16 October 2024Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
4. How does the Commission promote Welsh history and culture to visitors to the Senedd estate? OQ61710
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Yes.
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
NRW have done a lot of good work recently—just like public announcements, radio—about home owners being more resilient, about them making sure they're resilient, signing up to flood alerts, et cetera, but if included in that could also be a little bit…
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay. That's fine. No, that was good. Backup. [Laughter.] Can I ask another question? So, when we had Dŵr Cymru in the other day, we were talking about water capture and trying to ensure that surface water doesn't go into their drainage system, as that's a…
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Yes.
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay.
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Could I ask you what assessment has been made of the number of emergency overflows in Wales that will require monitoring? And I just want to raise a concern as well that the Bill is for emergency overflows. Unlike in England, there is no current reporting…
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
It says that it’s not just a one-year plan, it takes a while. So, we’re keeping at it, working with town and community councils, to engage them and fight the challenges that they’re facing as well regarding contractors who want to cut the grass to within an…
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
I just want to congratulate you on the peatland restoration project, achieving it one year ahead of target. So, we're quick to criticise and challenge, but I just want to say to you well done on that.
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Long-term funding has been requested as well. I don't know, going forward, if we're getting a three-year plan coming from the UK Government, a three-year budget hopefully, but at least three years—. Because they're using some of the grant funding up, which…
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Have you got a time frame for it?
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
How are we going to get that private investment? Public funding is well audited as well. There is concern that it's clean money and where it's coming from. So, how can we get that private investment in?
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
You referred to the future generations and well-being Act. We have it in place, but making sure that people always refer to it, always think about it in all the decisions being made, is really tricky, and, I think, for transport officers, highway officers, to…
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
I’m pleased your working across Governments, and with the UK Government as well, because a lot of decisions made by the UK Government impact us here in Wales as well. So, it’s great that there’s that input. How can we work across Government departments as…
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay. I have some evidence of some local SSSIs, where we've alerted NRW to it, but they won't come out and visit, because they haven't got the resources, the funding, or they just can't do it. So, it's a case of writing to the landowner to make sure that…
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
That's a bit of a bombshell there, really, because we're all very keen to get behind this. Just regarding SSSIs, so the 2020 assessment showed the condition of half of them is unknown, and, where conditions have been assessed, 60 per cent are showing an…
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Over 90 per cent of our land in Wales is managed for agriculture, and then we've also got the land managed by local authorities, the Ministry of Defence and the Church in Wales. We've heard from stakeholders here, such as the Royal Society for the Protection…
16 October 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Could I declare that I've been working on a project called It's For Them? It's about It's For Them nature, working with local nature partnerships on amenity grass and grass verges on that project.
15 October 2024Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: Energy and the green economy
I'm concerned about fossil fuel companies greenwashing, and would like to have seen public investment in the national grid rather than a massive carbon dioxide pipeline, which the corporations could have actually funded themselves. There's no local benefit…
15 October 2024Plenary
Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Circular economy opportunities and outcomes of Circular Economy Hotspot Cymru 2024
This really is a good news story. I think it started with the 5p carrier bag charge, and then moved into kerbside-sorted recycling, and it made us as residents think about the climate and feel that we're all doing our bit as well. I think we need to promote…
15 October 2024Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I must declare an interest as a proud member of the Unite union. And shwmae, Trefnydd. I would like to request a statement from the Minister for Social Partnership regarding Unite union's ongoing dispute with Oscar Mayer in Wrexham. Oscar Mayer have entered…