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Short Debate: Cancer inequalities in Wales
Poverty is a driving force in determining whether you get cancer, how quickly you'll receive treatment, and your chances around survival. I wanted to bring this debate to the Senedd because of the brutal inequalities that so many of the areas I represent in…
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Short Debate: Cancer inequalities in Wales
Diolch, Llywydd. My debate this evening is about the inequalities relating to cancer diagnoses, treatment and outcomes in Wales. And I'm pleased to be giving John Griffiths, Joel James, Heledd Fychan, Mark Isherwood, Rhun ap Iorwerth and Jack Sargeant a…
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Warm This Winter campaign
—because we have to change the way that we live. The days of market forces deciding who should be able to stay alive comfortably, frankly, they must be confined to history. The changes that are being proposed here are long overdue and they are simultaneously…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Warm This Winter campaign
Thank you for that.
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Warm This Winter campaign
Diolch, Jane. I think that that is certainly—. It's exactly these kinds of radical—well, it shouldn't be radical, but radical ideas, thinking outside the box—bold—that need to be thought of, because as has been—. Jenny's made this point; other people have…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Warm This Winter campaign
Certainly.
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Warm This Winter campaign
Because these crises overlap. There's a social justice driver here in helping people who are struggling now, and in preventing climate catastrophe from condemning future generations to a life of cold, misery and darkness. This campaign is calling for…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Warm This Winter campaign
I'd also like to thank Hefin for staging this debate, and to Climate Cymru and Bethan Sayed for their work with this campaign. It is so very important. Many Members have already mentioned the cost-of-living crisis, and as we've heard, it is a crisis—the fact…
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Topical Questions
I'd like to thank Jayne for asking this question; I'd echo the comments that have been made about the loss of these jobs. It's another bitter blow for the region I represent, which comes on the back of hundreds of job losses at Tillery Valley Foods Ltd in…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
If there's nothing else that anyone wishes to raise, we'll move into private session. So, I propose, under Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting, if Members are content. I see that you are…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Papers to note
We will therefore move on to item 2, papers to note. We have four papers to note: 2.1, the Welsh Government's international relations; then 2.2, safeguarding the national collections; 2.3, Wales-Ireland relations; and 2.4, legislative consent on the Data…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Good morning. I'd like to welcome Members to this meeting of the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee. Are there any declarations of interest from any Members? I don't see that there are.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Papers to note
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Yes, on 4.4 as well, I would echo what Jenny has said. I think that this is of serious significance, not just for the area, but the implications for what could happen elsewhere. I would certainly support us having a short inquiry on it.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 2
Yes, thank you. Briefly then, looking to section 7 of this Act with the priority species and habitats lists and the review that's been undertaken, do you have any views on that and how it's progressing, please?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 2
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Moving away from the private sector to look at public authorities firstly, please: in terms of the 2016 Act, section 6 is about a duty on public authorities to maintain and enhance biodiversity, and to promote ecosystem resilience. Do you…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 1
Thank you. And the—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 1
I think that Jonathan—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 1
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I wanted to ask you about how the Environment (Wales) Act 2016 is being implemented, and specifically first, please, section 6 of that, which requires public authorities to maintain and enhance biodiversity to promote ecosystem resilience…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Full devolution of water resources
Because we have to face that future, learning the lessons of what has gone before, or else our fate will be that of Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway, beating on, 'boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.' The tide is flowing our way. We must…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Full devolution of water resources
As Harri Webb would have said, this is Wales starting on its journey.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Full devolution of water resources
I'm glad to say that a fair focus has been on that future of us as a nation, not gaining powers for the sake of gaining powers, but the need to make better the lives of people who live here, the need to clean up the waste in our waterways, the need for…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Full devolution of water resources
the names that we must not forget—
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Full devolution of water resources
The past is never far from the surface in this debate. Jenny propelled us towards the future, again underlining the need for protecting vulnerable customers, set against the fact that, for those who can afford it—. As Adam had been relating with some of these…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Full devolution of water resources
Thank you for that. We heard from Sioned about water poverty. That ironic paradox of the high bills again, when we have such a rich supply beyond our reach, and the impact on mental health as a result of the debts. That was also important to encompass. Cefin…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Full devolution of water resources
I don't think what we're calling for is complex, to take what you'd said. I think, in its essence, it's actually incredibly straightforward, but I do thank you for your contribution to the debate. Adam set out how the world undervalues water and how this has…
