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12 March 2024Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal—A Bill for increased safety on public transport
Diolch, Llywydd. This legislative proposal is fundamentally about safety, about making our train stations and bus stops safer, more accessible, and making it easier for people to get to and from those spaces. We all want public transport to be made more…
12 March 2024Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, last week, the residents of Aberfan were told that their community centre was facing closure. As you'll know, that building is more than bricks and mortar. It was built by the community after the disaster in 1966 that claimed the lives of 116 of its…
6 March 2024Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Diolch. I'm raising this issue on behalf of constituents and bereaved families who were devastated to find out that pictures were taken of their dead and dying relatives in Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny and the Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran…
6 March 2024Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
7. What legal advice has the Counsel General provided to the Welsh Government regarding the rights to images of dying or dead relatives in hospitals during COVID? OQ60780
6 March 2024Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
The 1950s-born women denied their state pensions still await justice. I suggested to you last year that WASPI also stands for 'Waiting and Still Pleading for Integrity'. They should not still be waiting. It's a scandal that the UK Government has dragged its…
6 March 2024Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Thank you for that.
6 March 2024Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
1. What recent discussions has the Counsel General had with other law officers about women born in the 1950s who have suffered pensions loss through the targeting of their pension rights? OQ60779
6 March 2024Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
Our energy market has failed. It's failed consumers, who have to pay extortionate prices for the basic necessity of staying warm enough to live. And that failure has been the inevitable consequence of privatisation. Bills go up because this false margin of…
5 March 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Our Valleys paid a terrible price for the coal that was ripped from the earth beneath our feet—riches that were carried out of our communities, leaving us with dust that clogged the lungs of miners and soot and muck that was left littering our mountains. The…
5 March 2024Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
7. Will the First Minister make a statement on the environmental legacy of coal mining in South Wales East? OQ60766
28 February 2024Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
Now, in a few weeks' time, we will have a new First Minister. Whoever becomes the next First Minister, we as a committee want them to ensure that international relations are not neglected, or put on the back burner of Government. Rather, it's a golden…
28 February 2024Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
We do appreciate the commitments, of course, on the First Minister's time. As Huw had said, we don't believe that this has anything to do with a lack of willingness. I think that it comes back to that challenge of the prominence given—the added prominence…
28 February 2024Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
I thank the Deputy Minister.
28 February 2024Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
Thank you as well to Huw for speaking in this debate. I'm sure that we would all join you in congratulating Jess Fishlock and the team. Thank you for your kind words. I do think that this is a milestone for our committee. It's an important one, and we do…
28 February 2024Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
Rhys spoke about the high degree of awareness of Wales internationally. He said that this was partly because of sport, perhaps, but he also spoke about the diaspora community in Maryland. It's fascinating to hear about how we, as Welsh people, are seen, and…
28 February 2024Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
Carolyn set out more Wales's role in the world, and what we offer to the world. She alluded to her experience in Ghana, how at times we might be seen from the outside. Carolyn spoke about some of what we are uncovering again in our inquiry relating to Brexit…
28 February 2024Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
Rhun spoke about the importance of the fact that we locate ourselves in the world. He spoke about transparency and glass. As the poem on the Wales Millennium Centre reminds us, creating truth like glass is the challenge for us. Rhun mentioned Ireland—which is…
28 February 2024Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
Alun voiced his own thanks to the First Minister for the First Minister's passion for Wales internationally. He characterised our report as 'taking stock', though he did voice to our disappointment, of course, about the lack of access that we have had to the…
28 February 2024Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. I think the fact that so many Members have wanted to take part in this debate today is a testament to how important the subject is.
28 February 2024Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
I look forward very much to hearing the views of others in our debate this afternoon.
28 February 2024Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
At the beginning of this Senedd, we heard from a number of those stakeholders who were worried that the loss of a dedicated Minister for international relations would mean the topic would lessen in prominence. I think it's fair to say that the prominence of…
28 February 2024Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
We owe them a debt of gratitude.
28 February 2024Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
There have been areas where we have expected more from the Government. Most notably, we were disappointed that the First Minister decided not to attend draft budget scrutiny in person. That has caused us some difficulties. The written evidence we received…
28 February 2024Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
Last week, the First Minister was asked about his international relations portfolio and its importance to him, and he spoke about Dewi Sant, who emphasised the need and the importance of doing the little things well. That is a pertinent and timely analogy…
28 February 2024Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. It's a pleasure to be able to open this afternoon's debate on the committee's behalf. As far as I'm aware, this is the first report of its kind in terms of international relations in the Senedd's history. The committee's work in…