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Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Yes, Donal.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay, go on, then, Donal.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
I'll bring Donal in in a moment. Huw, did you want to say anything else before?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Sorry, Chris, Huw wants to pick up on something.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Huw wants to come in.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Excellent. Okay, thank you for that. Janet.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Donal wants to come in as well.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Donal.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Yes. Chris.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Chris, would you like to go first on this one?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay, and we'll dig down a bit deeper on the data stuff in a moment, but we'll come on now to Joyce.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay, thank you. Chris.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay. Jenny, you wanted to pick up on something.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay. Thank you. So, Donal and Chris, just to respond, maybe, to this; obviously, the cost-of-living crisis is having a huge bearing on so many aspects of life these days, it's invariably going to have an effect on what both individual home owners can…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Briefly, yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Rhiannon, would you like to go first on that?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Although the focus of this inquiry is specifically the private sector.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Yes, and probably disappointed that you're not involved, but there we are. I thought that I'd maybe flag up that the Government, at least, believes that they are doing it, but maybe they need to do it with a bit more gusto, I think, is maybe what some people…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay. I just want to flag something up, because in response to a report by the Equality and Social Justice Committee, actually, chaired by our colleague here, Jenny Rathbone, the Government responded to some of the recommendations there, one of which was on…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay, thank you. Rhiannon.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay. Donal, would you like to add anything?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Chris, would you like to kick off?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay, we will move on, therefore, to our second agenda item, which is our first evidence session on decarbonising the private housing sector. Members will recall that we as a committee agreed at the beginning of the sixth Senedd to undertake a multiphase…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Good morning, and a warm welcome to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee here at Senedd Cymru. A warm welcome to Members to the meeting. It is being held in hybrid format, so some Members are here in the room and others…