, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cost of Living - Businesses
Okay, that might be something the committee might wish to explore in more detail. What about extending the cost-of-living support to small businesses? Is there more that can be done there as well—particularly microbusinesses?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cost of Living - Businesses
Okay. Llŷr, with regard to the fact that you were calling for unspent funding for the coronavirus crisis to be repurposed, what have you got in mind with that?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cost of Living - Businesses
Can you elaborate on that, Leighton? What do you mean by you understand the direction of travel?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cost of Living - Businesses
Thank you. Has any member of the panel had any conversations with the First Minister about the fact that he said that the cost-of-living support to businesses will be done through adjustments to existing programmes?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cost of Living - Workforce
I appreciate that. Thank you. Diolch, Cadeirydd.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cost of Living - Workforce
Can I say, Steffan, and perhaps Deborah might want to come on to this as well, that the public sector in Wales is a very big employer? It doesn't really have the capacity to take up the slack from those private sector increases. Is that the case, or do you…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cost of Living - Workforce
Okay. Steffan.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cost of Living - Workforce
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Those of us who grew up in the 1980s will recall the three evils of inflation, high interest rates and unemployment, and we haven't really seen that kind of economy since the early 1990s. But, now we're expecting unemployment to start…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
I should declare that I'm also a member of the Bevan Foundation.
, Plenary
Debate on petition P-06-1249: Provide a clinical pathway, medical care, and specialists for people with Tourette’s syndrome in Wales
I had the pleasure, in advance of my short debate on autism, ADHD and Tourette's two weeks ago, of speaking to Helen Reeves-Graham on the phone and hearing her story personally, and it demonstrates the difficulty that exists in this community. And…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: The Learning Disability Action Plan
I'd like to thank the Deputy Minister for all the direct work and involvement she's had with people who have learning disabilities, and also advocates on their behalf. I know she's held meetings across Wales with such people. The question I've got is…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
If I can come back to the premise of the question, which was the regulation of estate management companies, these companies are not well regulated—in fact, they're barely regulated at all. The charges people face can have no cap, and, very often, the work is…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Just before I ask my question, I'd like to welcome Mr Sean Donovan and his mother Sarah into the public gallery. He will have taken a great deal of interest in the question that was asked by Adam Price and the response from the First Minister. I have also…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
3. Will the First Minister provide an update on Welsh Government support for public transport in the Caerphilly constituency? OQ58067
, Plenary
Short Debate: Pathways from referrals to diagnosis and beyond: the challenges of living with autism and other neurodivergent conditions
My issue, and the problem that I've seen so often, is that it is too much about seeking a diagnosis and then dealing with the symptoms, rather than the first bit, which is looking at what is presenting—what are the presenting behaviours, what are those…
, Plenary
Short Debate: Pathways from referrals to diagnosis and beyond: the challenges of living with autism and other neurodivergent conditions
We've also got Trinity Fields special school, of which I'm a governor, but I think we also need another special school in the borough, such is the demand. And I'll be pushing that to the new leadership of Caerphilly County Borough Council. We're also lucky…
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Short Debate: Pathways from referrals to diagnosis and beyond: the challenges of living with autism and other neurodivergent conditions
That was 'cheers' from Joyce Watson there. Diolch, Llywydd. I will get started if you set my timer to now, please. I'm glad to give a minute of my time to Laura Anne Jones and to Mark Isherwood, at their request, so I think then that'll leave me with 12 or so…
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Short Debate: Pathways from referrals to diagnosis and beyond: the challenges of living with autism and other neurodivergent conditions
I'll wait patiently.
, Plenary
Short Debate: Pathways from referrals to diagnosis and beyond: the challenges of living with autism and other neurodivergent conditions
Diolch, Llywydd.
, Plenary
Motion to suspend Standing Orders
I don't want to speak on it.
, Plenary
Motion to suspend Standing Orders
Move.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of the Agricultural Pollution Regulations
Okay. Thanks, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of the Agricultural Pollution Regulations
Okay. And you'd expect there to be some kind of remit, reporting to you or to us, to scrutinise, to see how that is happening, so that we can understand how that flexibility is being applied.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of the Agricultural Pollution Regulations
I just feel like we're heavily reliant on NRW here to interpret this—
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of the Agricultural Pollution Regulations
Just regarding the mechanisms for that pragmatic approach, I'm just trying to understand how that would happen in reality. Would you have sight of those cases, that they're difficult? If they didn't want to take the flexible action that was necessary, would…
