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Debate: Voter Inclusion
People have to provide photographic ID in order to collect a parcel from the Royal Mail these days. Why on earth is that considered a perfectly reasonable requirement, versus people having to present photo ID in order to undertake their democratic opportunity…
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Debate: Voter Inclusion
Will you take an intervention?
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Debate: Voter Inclusion
Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to make an intervention, and I appreciate it's difficult via Zoom. You just mentioned that ethnic minorities are going to be the ones that are most affected by this voter ID request. That's actually not backed up by the…
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Debate: Voter Inclusion
—is the opportunity to vote. I think this is a more important issue, and therefore people should present photo identification.
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Debate: Voter Inclusion
—and yet the biggest responsibility of any citizen of any country—
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Debate: Voter Inclusion
Thank you. I appreciate your taking the intervention. I remember your party and the Welsh Government making similar arguments when the UK Government introduced individual voter registration, and yet, in spite of your warnings and alarm bells ringing, the…
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Debate: Voter Inclusion
All of these measures will protect voters from fraud and improve the security and integrity of elections that are going to be held, so instead of baulking about them, I would encourage the Welsh Government to do something positive. Why not adopt them for…
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Debate: Voter Inclusion
Those sound perfectly sensible to me—I will, I did take an intervention.
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Debate: Voter Inclusion
I'm very pleased to hear that for you, Mike. Let's move on. So—[Laughter.]—the issue is that those problems have been exposed, and we must take action to address them, and that's precisely what the UK Government Elections Bill seeks to do. It will stop the…
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Debate: Voter Inclusion
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I move the amendment tabled in my name. At the outset of my speech, I want to make it absolutely clear that we broadly agree with the Welsh Government's stated principles on electoral reform, which it announced earlier…
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 19) Regulations 2021
Yes, I am. You were talking about facts earlier on. The facts are these: you can have both COVID jabs and still catch and spread COVID. You can enter into the COVID pass system a negative result even if you've had a positive one. That does not protect people…
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 19) Regulations 2021
Thank you, I'm grateful for you taking the intervention. You say that the duty is on the Government in order to demonstrate the need to take action in this respect, but, of course, there is no evidence that these are actually making a significant difference…
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 19) Regulations 2021
The point I was making was not so much about this being an authoritarian Government; I don't think I used those words. The point is that the system has a big flaw in it, and that is that you can self-certify in terms of your lateral flow test result. That is…
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 19) Regulations 2021
Will you take an intervention?
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 19) Regulations 2021
I don't support that. I don't support that, and we’ve been clear on these benches that we don't support it, and that’s why we’ve supported the First Minister in his position not to make compulsory vaccination a requirement of workers in care homes or the NHS…
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 19) Regulations 2021
And the chief executive of the Creative Hospitality Group had said that there was a huge lack of trust in the Welsh Government, and that, despite employing 10 per cent of the Welsh population, the industry feels belittled by the First Minister. Why is an…
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 19) Regulations 2021
The Welsh Conservatives warned that the introduction of COVID passports in Wales would set a dangerous precedent, and it gives me no pleasure today to say that we were right. It's just a few short weeks since the introduction of COVID passports here in Wales…
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Business Statement and Announcement
Minister, can I call for a statement from the Minister for Health and Social Services on the use of face coverings in churches? I was at the Principality Stadium over the weekend, along with over 70,000 other people, and I was able to sing 'Bread of Heaven'…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Constitutional Commission
Can I thank you for your statement, Minister? It is disappointing that it was trailed in the media for such a long period before it was made to Members of the Senedd, but I suppose that’s just what we’re getting used to here under the current Welsh…
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Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, can I call for an urgent statement from the Minister for Health and Social Services in relation to the recent emergence of a story about Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board? There were reports over the last couple of days that emerged, which…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, one of the key roles that Natural Resources Wales has here in our country is to support the Government in terms of flood risk management, and to provide advice and to follow up any floods that happen across the country. As you will be aware…
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Questions to the First Minister
8. What assessment has the Welsh Government made of the effectiveness of Natural Resources Wales? OQ57058
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Motion to elect a Member to a Committee
I move.
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
That is unfair to north Wales.
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
But given that they are manifesto commitment, and you've just suggested they'll be delivered within the five years of the Labour Government's term, why on earth would you put them in the deep freeze in the first place? The reality is that they should be…
