9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Rhian.
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
That's an important point. Okay. Thank you. We'll move on to Delyth.
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Any takers for that? Jasmine.
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Okay. Thank you. Apologies for disappearing momentarily from your screens. I kicked the mains cable out of my monitor, so I was there, but you probably couldn't see me. So, apologies for that. Jenny, did you want to come in on something earlier?
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Okay. We'll come on to interrogate evidence and data gaps more specifically in a moment. Maybe I'll go to Joyce first, just to ask a few questions.
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Okay, if Jasmine is happy to expand on that.
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Okay, thank you very much. You referred to the adaptive management statement—
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
So, your call to the Government, maybe through us as a committee, is if the Government is serious about increasing offshore renewables, then the OREP programme needs to have additional resources to reflect that.
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
So we'll move on to the second item, and we will start taking evidence. We have a full day today of taking evidence on marine environment management. As a committee, we're eager to ensure that the marine environment is given prominence in the sixth Senedd…
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Thank you very much. I'll explain also that Delyth Jewell will step in as temporary Chair if my connection is lost with this meeting. So, we'll be in good hands if that happens, but I hope we won't need that.
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
There we are. Okay.
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Diolch yn fawr. And Joyce.
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
A warm welcome to you all to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee at the Senedd. I welcome the Members. Could I explain, as I do at the outset of every meeting, that the meeting is bilingual, and that simultaneous…
8 December 2021 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Mental health services
The culture of resistance to scrutiny, to change and challenge led, of course, to Betsi's hierarchy refusing to release this report, despite, even, the requests of the information commissioner. Grieving relatives had to wait unnecessarily due to a bureaucracy…
8 December 2021 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Mental health services
Thank you for the opportunity to once again discuss this issue. We've had a number of opportunities over recent weeks and months, and indeed recent years, to discuss the scandal of the Hergest unit and the scandal of not publishing the Holden report in full…
8 December 2021 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you for that response. I'm a very regular user of train services. In my 10 years here in the Senedd, I've driven down some twice a year. I use the train almost without exception, but I have used the train three times in the last three weeks. Three weeks…
8 December 2021 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
5. What assessment has the Minister made of the quality of rail services in Wales? OQ57338
7 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Reforming Council Tax in Wales
In order to assess the real implications of a land value tax, we need more data, of course. That's become clear in some of the work undertaken by the Bangor University report. The first recommendation in that report was to go about gathering the necessary…
7 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Reforming Council Tax in Wales
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Look, we have it in our power in this Chamber to radically reform what is one of the most regressive taxes that we have, actually. It's a legacy of the Thatcher era. It's grossly unfair, because it levies almost four times as much as a…
7 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Programme for Government—Update.
The Tories are clearly pretty exercised by the co-operation agreement, and I wonder what the First Minister's assessment is of why that may be. Because we all remember, as you referred to, the Tory £1 billion bung—is it that we've shown the proper way of…
7 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Programme for Government—Update.
I didn't understand that there was a time limit.
7 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Programme for Government—Update.
I asked whether the First Minister agreed with me.
7 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Programme for Government—Update.
Thank you, First Minister, for the statement. I welcome this expanded and reformed programme of government to reflect those areas where Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Government have been able to find that common ground where we can collaborate. And, of course…
30 November 2021 , Plenary
, 10., 11., 12., 13., 14., 15., 16. & 17. The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2021; The Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (Public Authorities subject to the Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystems Duty) Regulations 2021; The Equality Act 2010 (Authorities subject to a duty regarding Socio-economic Inequalities) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2021; The Welsh Language Standards (No. 1) Regulations 2015 (Amendment) Regulations 2021; The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (Meaning of Public Body) (Wales) Regulations 2021; The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (Meaning of Public Body) (Wales) Regulations 2021; The Corporate Joint Committees (Amendment of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015) Regulations 2021; The Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010 (Amendment to the List of Welsh Authorities) Regulations 2021; The Child Poverty Strategy (Corporate Joint Committees) (Wales) Regulations 2021
Well, thank you very much, Llywydd. It's clear that Plaid Cymru has arrived, because the Conservatives spend more time discussing the Plaid Cymru manifesto and policies than they discuss their own policies, and again that underlines, I think, how increasingly…
30 November 2021 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Well, we'll look forward very much to hearing that date. The tragedy is that we've lost years to all intents and purposes. We've been talking about a deposit-return scheme for Wales for almost a decade, and we're still talking about such a scheme for Wales…
