, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Did you have any thoughts on potential unintended consequences of the target on a steady-state resource and skills base?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Yes.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Can I just ask you to elaborate a little on what in particular you think is woolly?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
So, if that is the case, hypothetically, what do you think the effect of having a target in the statute book will be? What sorts of unintended consequences might it drive?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Can I just finish my point?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Can I just come back on that? So, I think you're, essentially, saying that, if the resources are there and if the skills are provided, the target will be useful and is achievable and if it's just left to fight for resource with every other priority, then it's…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
It's just to test your support for the principle of putting the target on the face of the Bill, and what the sector's view of the implications of that might be.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Okay, thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
So, can I try and interpret that? Are you saying that you don’t feel there’s particular value in having the target on the face of the Bill?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Yes, sure. Following on from that, then, one of the questions we’re exploring is the value of having a million Welsh speakers as a statutory target. What is the sector’s view of that, and what benefits will it bring, if any?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Thank you, that's all I have.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Thanks. I just want to follow up on that. I'm touching on a question that Vaughan Gething asked earlier about the relative recruitment pressures the sector has across the board. You've said that you support the aspirations behind the Bill, as we’d expect you…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
My anxiety—. I understand the evidence and I understand what Rebecca Williams said, that having an immersive environment where the language can be fully used is preferrable, but for a significant period we're going to be facing the facts on the ground, that…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Why?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Sorry, I was happy to wait, but I was intrigued by what Rebecca Williams said about what more she'd like to see in the Bill about strengthening Welsh as a subject. I wonder if she could elaborate on that, please.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Okay, thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Okay. Well, sure, I think that's more hope than it is evidence is my concern. Just one brief question, just to get it on the record. I'm sure the answer to this is 'yes', but, currently, it's only the Welsh Language Commissioner who is formally consulted on…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Sure, I understand your aspiration and your hope for that, but I'm just thinking of other parallels. Let's think, for example, of climate change, which is a similarly transformative programme, which has a legal target to achieve a figure by 2050. I'm not…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Diolch. If I can just test your argument a little about the need for the 1 million target to be in statute, because it strikes me, from the evidence we've had, there are a range of challenges facing our ability to reach that target. They're complex, they're…
, Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
I heard you say there was a feeling that Members shouldn't be squashed up on benches at the back, which you said in your evidence to the Finance Committee is one of the capital pressures that are putting the budget up. Given the unease at the significant rise…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
Of course, something like a quarter of all school funding goes on the cost of school transport, and one of the recommendations of the review of the learner travel Measure was to look at how more journeys could be made by active travel, and that requires…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
Great, diolch.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
Could I just ask you to add into your answer to elaborate on your point in your paper about the need for measurable indicators on the efficacy of a foundational economy, which shapes investment, and the overall idea of what they might look like?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
Do you know how we might do that?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation
But I thought you were sceptical of them.
