, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the public sector - evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)
That's fine.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the public sector - evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)
Yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the public sector - evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)
Okay, thank you. Thank you for that. That's really interesting. Could I just move us on to whether local authorities are on track to meet key commitments around developing a strategic plan for decarbonising buildings? Amidst the eye-watering energy prices…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the public sector - evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)
Thank you. So, Andrew, Monmouthshire is definitely leading the way on this. How do we spread that good practice across all 22 local authorities?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the public sector - evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)
Mary Ann to start, and then I'll come back to you, Andrew.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the public sector - evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)
Okay. I just want to go back to sustainable procurement, and, obviously, one of the things that all local authorities are grappling with is how we feed our school pupils, particularly the free school meals programme. I appreciate Mary Ann said something…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the public sector - evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)
Thank you very much indeed. I just wanted to ask you about the—. You've set up a framework of five consultants, who are commissioned to carry out works to fill the gaps that you've identified in your four strategic areas. Could you just give us a little bit…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the public sector - evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)
That's good, but we've got the ones that exist already, and particularly in the most deprived areas the press are saying they're all going to close. That would obviously be a disaster. So, it's really how we can adopt the sustainable technologies quickly…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the public sector - evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)
Just looking at the route-map and the things that were recommended to be done between 2020 and 2022, you make a very important point about suppliers and how you influence them. I wanted to try and better understand what work has been done to try and safeguard…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the public sector - briefing from the Auditor General for Wales
Capital is in very short supply at the moment. What's your role in ensuring that whatever capital investment is made is fit for the future, rather than having to be ripped out later down the line? I do wonder whether there are any renewables on the Grange…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the public sector - briefing from the Auditor General for Wales
Well, of getting local authorities to focus on something that's clearly going to blow up in their face, unless they have done some of the things that other swimming pools have done around the country.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the public sector - briefing from the Auditor General for Wales
Swimming pools.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the public sector - briefing from the Auditor General for Wales
Well, it's gone now; we've done it. Obviously, regulations will follow.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the public sector - briefing from the Auditor General for Wales
I've got three questions. One is is the Welsh Government up to the job? They've got the loudest megaphone when it comes to convincing public bodies, but I'm not sure that they're keeping up with the latest technology. So, for example, Sero, who gave evidence…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the public sector - briefing from the Auditor General for Wales
Sorry, did you say 'billion' or 'million'?
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Dental Reform
Thank you very much. Congratulations on the work you're doing to increase the number of people who are actually getting to see a dentist. That's really good news. I just wanted to go back to the mobile dental unit as the way of ensuring that all children get…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I'd just like to associate myself with the concerns expressed by Heledd Fychan. Because I read today that sewage is being discharged into the river Taf, and who wants to have a toilet being developed just outside our building? So, this is a really serious…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I too was at the south Wales industrial cluster meeting that was held in the Millennium Stadium in my constituency, and a really interesting meeting it was, with lots of really important people there. However, I want to just ask about a slightly different…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The roads review
The authorities that have got electric buses are those that have applied successfully for UK Government funding, and we should be very grateful for that. But, on the electric charging points, I have to remind you that just as governments are not responsible…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The roads review
Diolch. I just wanted to ask you whether you'd given much consideration to using the older Menai bridge for active travel, for cycling and walking, because I accept that the Britannia bridge would be a terrifying cycling experience? And we know that there are…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The roads review
This is not about the airport—[Interruption.] Well, we don't have aeroplanes running on roads, and this is about roads. This is about having more coherent criteria for why we are going to invest in the carbon emissions created by roads. So, the new criteria…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The roads review
All right.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The roads review
A small history lesson. Roads weren't invented to accommodate the combustion engine. Roads were invented to get people from A to B, long before the combustion engine was around, and what this is about is re-purposing our roads to have multiple ways of getting…
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Biometric data in schools
Thank you very much, Sarah, for tabling this debate, which is indeed, as others have said, a very important thing that we need to consider, because, otherwise—. Technology is a wonderful thing in many respects; it can save lives. If somebody's gone into a…
, Plenary
Group 8: Socially responsible procurement duty (Amendments 4, 1)
This raises quite a significant issue. Obviously, what the Plaid Cymru amendment aspires to is something that I regard as extremely important. But it also illustrates the limits of our powers. As a Welsh Parliament, we can legislate for the benefit of Wales…
