, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Okay. I want to move on to questions about allowing exemptions by schools. The Bill as it stands offers two exemption periods, and you referred to this, I think, in response to the first question, and I understand why you have said that two exemption periods…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Okay, thank you very much. Can you confirm whether it's the Welsh Government's intention to use the power in section 11 to make regulations to upgrade the Welsh language learning goals of primarily English language partly Welsh and dual-language schools? You…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
I agree with that, but personally I would want to stick to the 10 per cent curriculum, which is important, and at the heart of the Bill. But there’s another question I’d like to ask, on the back of a number of similar questions from Tom Giffard. I think it’s…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Thank you very much. There was one additional question I did intend to ask, but the answer you provided to the previous question—or the one before last, rather—has inspired another question. So, if I could just go after that, first of all: you referred to a…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Diolch yn fawr iawn ichi am yr ateb yna. Dwi'n falch o glywed bod gennych chi feddwl agored ynglŷn â gosod dyletswydd ar wyneb y Bil ynglŷn â datblygu gweithlu dwyieithog a thargedau ar gyfer hynny. Oes yna, yn eich barn chi, ddadl yn erbyn gwneud hynny?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Yes. From me, my usual declaration that, when I was a designated Member, I was involved with the development of the draft Bill that is before us, but I wasn't there at its completion, so that's important to note.
, Plenary
Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
Very briefly, both reports have raised serious concerns about the disconnect between Farming Connect and the policy objectives in agriculture from Government, so this is something that needs to be considered. Sustainable land management objectives—this is…
, Plenary
Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
Yes, okay. I'll just quickly turn, to finish off, to Farming Connect.
, Plenary
Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
Thank you for the clarity, because the lack of clarity is what has caused many of the problems that we have seen and the anger shown by farmers in recent protests that we have seen outside here a few months ago. For many farmers, they can meet those…
, Plenary
Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
Yes, of course I will.
, Plenary
Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
Plaid Cymru welcomes the committees’ recommendation that the Welsh Government should review the tree cover requirement and explore alternative ways to meet environmental goals. Farmers are not opposed to contributing to climate change action, but mandating a…
, Plenary
Joint Debate on Committee Reports: The Sustainable Farming Scheme and Farming Connect
Thank you to both committees for these reports on the sustainable farming scheme and Farming Connect. They are very important reports that will steer our response, hopefully, for the future of agriculture in Wales, particularly as we tackle the challenges of…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
In response to a question from me last week regarding the financial crisis facing Welsh universities, you stated 'Medr is going to have its own funds to support our institutions.... It will be called a transformation fund'. But, lo and behold, within 24…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Well, thank you very much for that response. It's all a mystery, isn't it?
, Plenary
Topical Questions
2. Will the Welsh Government explain the financial support available to at-risk Welsh universities, following the letter from the Minister for Further and Higher Education to Members of the Senedd on 16 October 2024? TQ1223
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales: Rail Collision on the Cambrian Line
Thank you for the statement. May I extend my sympathies and condolences to the family of the person who lost their life, and wish those who were injured in the accident well—injured either physically or mentally? And I thank, also, the emergency services for…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
I'm done. Diolch.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Okay.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Okay, I’ll ask this question in Welsh, and it’s a question specifically on the institute that’s contained within the Bill. How do you expect the role of the institute to interact and intersect with your post-16 sector? And how do you see the institute working…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Okay. I don’t know whether any of the others want to comment on that.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
So, in the short term—I’m just going back to the short term, and, as to your long-term ambition, you've set that out clearly—in the short term, do you still acknowledge there will be tensions, and there needs to be honesty as well about what FE can provide as…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Diolch. I'll ask my second question in Welsh; I'll ask the first one in English. It's specifically for ColegauCymru, but happy to take any comments from other institutions. For this whole Bill to work, we need clear collaboration across many different…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Okay. Diolch yn fawr.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Okay. That's quite clear.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
A final question from me in terms of seeking that clarity that Alun was alluding to: do you expect to take responsibility for regulating the institute, when that is established?
