, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
And one of those concerns, of course, has come from one of your partners, and that's the seagrass restoration projects that have pioneered the way we think about the sea bed and the critical role that seagrass plays. So, how do you respond to the fact that…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay. It is pretty critical, isn't it, because we talked yesterday enthusiastically—and I have no problem with that—about offshore wind, and at the same time we need to secure the future of the activity that takes part in the sea by those that live in the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
I’m going to talk marine, which needs some attention, in my opinion, more than it’s getting. So, do you have a timescale for when an updated marine protected area network management framework and associated action plan will be published, particularly since…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you. Thank you, Chair.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
If I can, if there's one area where the public will be very switched on to inter-governmental working, it's flooding, because it's visible and it affects people. And across all of the departments, Deputy First Minister, you will see that quite clearly. So, I…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
So, how have NRW's report, 'Long-term Investment Requirements for Flood Defences in Wales' and the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales's report, 'Building resilience to flooding in Wales 2050', been taken into account in that preparation? And have…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
That leads us nicely on to the flood risk management questions. Are you content, Cabinet Secretary, that the allocations for flood and coastal erosion risk management are sufficient, given the rising sea levels and increased risks of flooding all around us…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
One final question. We all know money’s necessary to move things forward. You talked about the recycling of grants, and that’s obviously a good thing. Would you reassess those if you found the need for more finance, if you found that things were moving…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
So, can you confirm whether you have responsibility for the energy service, given that all the other aspects of the energy portfolio sit with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
What additional financial support, other than that provided through the energy service, is available to the public sector in their aim to decarbonise?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
How will the draft budget allocations for the Welsh Government energy service specifically support that public sector decarbonisation?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
So, do you think that it’s the case that the Welsh Government’s ambition for the public sector to achieve net zero by 2030 is achievable?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
So, I take it, when you’re talking about the Climate Change Committee, you’re talking about the UK Climate Change Committee.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay. And I’m going to ask you about climate change action, and whether climate adaptation is a priority for the Welsh Government and how it’s being reflected in the draft budget.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
We will be covering some of those in more detail, but I'm interested in how you're using your influence with the planning departments, so when we're building, and linking to flooding. So, I'm talking about surface water alleviation and prevention, so that…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: Offshore Wind Task and Finish Group
—but I'd welcome any statements that you have. Thank you.
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: Offshore Wind Task and Finish Group
I welcome the statement today, of course, on where I live. You refer to a pipeline of over 15 GW of offshore wind projects planned to be developed in Wales, and also Ireland and England. We all know it's going to deliver economic benefit but also huge…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, I want to request a Welsh Government response to the wild interventions in this country's politics led by the world's richest man. Predictably, as a consequence of that, another man has been charged with sending malicious communications to Jess…
, Plenary
Short Debate: Violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence—The scourge of Wales today
Thank you, Mabon, for tabling what's a really important debate, and tabling it ahead of the international day to end violence against women and children, or White Ribbon Day, on 25 November. And I want to extend an open invitation to everybody from the…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days
What we have done in 100 days, you've failed to do in 14 years. And as for your pie-in-the-sky thinking of how you're going to fund it with independence, I'm yet to hear the answer.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days
You won't have the £28 million to help cut long hospital waiting lists, and you won't have the £7.7 million that's been invested in the burns unit at Morriston Hospital. So what I say to people is this: if you want investment in healthcare, not at your own…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days
There’s one single item that you’re talking about. We’re talking about 14 years. And that discussion, by the way, is still ongoing, just to let you know. This is one budget within less than 100 days, which is of course the whole point of this conversation…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days
It’s been an interesting debate. I’ve been truly educated, just to pick up on the private education that I never had as one of eight children. But the point here is this: I think some people have got a bit of a brass neck, quite frankly. We’ve had 14 years of…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister's first 100 days
I would just like to ask you, just on behalf of all your constituents, and also my constituents, are you telling me that you don't think that the hard-working people who are on low wages deserve that uplift, since you've just mentioned it as a negative, in…
