, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 8: Complaints about access to services (Amendment 23)
Yes, please.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 8: Complaints about access to services (Amendment 23)
I move.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 8: Complaints about access to services (Amendment 23)
I'd like to move.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 8: Complaints about access to services (Amendment 23)
I do.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 8: Complaints about access to services (Amendment 23)
Amendment 23 is tabled in response to this committee's recommendation 10. As committee members will be aware, in response to the committee's Stage 1 report, I rejected recommendation 10, setting out my reasons for that, and I don't believe the situation has…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 7: Reporting arrangements and listed public bodies (Amendments 9, 12, 13, 24)
Yes, please.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 7: Reporting arrangements and listed public bodies (Amendments 9, 12, 13, 24)
Yes, please.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 7: Reporting arrangements and listed public bodies (Amendments 9, 12, 13, 24)
I'd be grateful if you could move that, yes, please.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 7: Reporting arrangements and listed public bodies (Amendments 9, 12, 13, 24)
Again, I completely endorse the intention and the goal. We share the goal. I remind Members, as I said earlier, that amendment 14 widens, or will require that representatives of BSL signers would also need to be consulted before Welsh Ministers can make…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 7: Reporting arrangements and listed public bodies (Amendments 9, 12, 13, 24)
I thank Sioned Williams for her comments. As I say, I completely endorse and support the principle of this. As you indicate, proposed amendment 9 will, hopefully, go a long way towards addressing this. Future Welsh Governments will have to show that they've…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 7: Reporting arrangements and listed public bodies (Amendments 9, 12, 13, 24)
Thank you, Chair. Recommendation 6 in this committee's Stage 1 report called for the early progress reports required by the Bill to include consideration of whether other authorities should be added to the listed public bodies included in section 8 of the…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 6: Appointing the BSL adviser (Amendments 20, 21, 22)
Diolch, Chair, and, again, thank you to Sioned Williams for tabling amendments 20, 21 and 22, and, as you've heard, amendment 20 to place a requirement on the face of the Bill that the BSL adviser must be a deaf person. The legal position, which has been…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 5: Co-production (Amendments 19, 18)
I do.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 5: Co-production (Amendments 19, 18)
Thank you, Chair, and thanks very much, Sioned, for tabling these amendments on co-production. As you say, co-production is more than consultation. In fact, it's different to consultation. Committee members may be aware that I've long been an advocate of…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 4: BSL guidance (Amendment 6)
Nothing further to my previous comments, so please move.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 4: BSL guidance (Amendment 6)
Only to endorse your comments. As I say, it was always the intention that the two should run concurrently, but, hypothetically, there is the risk that a Welsh Government could, for whatever reason, create a gap in timing between the two, which could lead to…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 4: BSL guidance (Amendment 6)
Thank you. Again, I thank this committee for having raised this yourselves. This was something that I know you were keen to see, because you set it out in recommendation 3 of your Stage 1 report. As a consequence, amendment 6 places a requirement on the face…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 3: Consultation with the BSL signing community (Amendments 4, 17, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15)
Yes, I propose.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 3: Consultation with the BSL signing community (Amendments 4, 17, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15)
Thank you very much. Diolch yn fawr. I completely agree that we must, collectively, seek—and I quote you—to reflect the lived experience of the people the Bill is intended or supposed to support. That's why, essentially, this suite of amendments has been…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 3: Consultation with the BSL signing community (Amendments 4, 17, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15)
It'll do it in the summing up.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 3: Consultation with the BSL signing community (Amendments 4, 17, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15)
Diolch. Thank you. The amendments in this group, as you indicated, all relate to increasing consultation with the deaf community and deaf communities on key provisions in the Bill. This is something I know that this committee was keen to see and which came…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 2: National BSL strategy (Amendments 3, 16)
Yes, I move the amendment.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 2: National BSL strategy (Amendments 3, 16)
Thank you very much, Sioned. I won't say any more about the amendment I'm proposing. I completely support the intent of both parts of your amendment. As I stated, I'd very much welcome the amendment at Stage 3 in relation to the first part of that amendment…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 2: National BSL strategy (Amendments 3, 16)
Well, in your committee's Stage 1 report, one of the clear conclusions was that the single biggest threat to effective implementation of this Bill is the shortage of BSL translators and interpreters, a conclusion that I wholeheartedly agree with. While I…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 1: Definition of British Sign Language (Amendments 1, 2)
Amendment 1 has been tabled in response to this committee's recommendation 2, which called on me to review the description of British Sign Language, BSL, using the explanatory memorandum, and to consider including a definition of BSL on the face of the Bill…
