, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 2
Excellent. We lost you momentarily. Sarah, please do continue.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 2
Sorry, Sarah. We just have to take a halt for a moment because we've lost Sioned. Are you able to hear what Sarah Germain's starting to say?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 2
Thank you. Sioned Williams wanted to follow up on one of your comments. Sioned.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 2
Robbie.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 2
Given that there is clearly so much need, how are organisations managing to meet that need? Sarah, you said that you weren't aware of anybody being turned away, but if the public doesn't support your organisations, then the situation could become a whole lot…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 2
Okay, thank you. Jen Griffiths.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 2
Okay. Robbie Davison or Jen Griffiths.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 2
Okay. Who are the main people who are using these services? We know, obviously, that anybody with children, anybody with a disability, and also private renters whose housing benefit isn't covering the cost of their rent, are in a desperate situation. Is that…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 2
So, are people actually being turned away?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 2
So, I'd very much like to welcome Sarah Germain, who is the chief executive officer of FareShare, as well as Jen Griffiths, the service manager for Flintshire County Council, and Robbie Davison, in charge of Well Fed. So, welcome to all of you. In light of…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Prynhawn da. Welcome to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. We are continuing with our inquiry into debt and the impact of the rising cost of living, with our second session. I have had no apologies today. All Members are present, other than…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Water is the new gold, and obviously there are lots of parts of Europe, including the east side of Britain, who are going to have some serious issues here. Is this the time to be looking at costing new reservoirs, so that you can better control this feast and…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Okay. Well, we look forward to that.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
You're on target to produce that?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Okay. And the storm overflow report—I think it's due by the end of March.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Okay. So, lastly from me, can you tell us a bit more about the better river quality taskforce, which I know you're one of the stakeholders in, specifically around NRW's delivery of actions that are agreed by this taskforce?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Okay. But at what point would it actually have an impact on reducing the water pollution, the phosphorous pollution, in our rivers, particularly these special ones?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Just going back to the phosphorus pollution, particularly in our SAC rivers, it's clearly a hugely complicated issue, because the summit chaired by the First Minister at the Royal Welsh last year had a huge number of stakeholders in the room. What can you…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Okay, and then, I suppose, lastly, the issue is how much nitrate are people going to be allowed to spread over land. The implementation at the moment is for the 170 kg per hectare, but now we're told that people are going to be able to apply to distribute…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Okay. Just going back to the earlier conversation that Huw was raising with Ceri, which is on cost recovery, I understand the dairy sector is the main source of agricultural pollution, and the dairy sector isn't normally known for one cow to feed the family…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
—for implementation, which is going to start now, not in January, but in April?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Moving on to specifics and the moving feast of agricultural pollution regulations, I heard Rachael say that you had actually settled with the Government on pollution service levels, so could you tell us, Clare, what level of resource do you think you're going…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and coach net zero - briefing by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and coach net zero - briefing by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
But how do we—? How can we afford to wait for that, given that we face the crunch that you mentioned? You didn't provide us with any solutions, so I'm pressing you: what do we do now? Because it takes quite a long time to get all the lovely public transport…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and coach net zero - briefing by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
You said that Cambridge is not introducing any of the sticks until they've got all the carrots in place.
