, Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 3
If I've got time, Chair.
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Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 3
Thanks, Chair. Just on a point you mentioned earlier, Fergus, in relation to the quality of the estate, as it were, whether it's swimming pools, or whether it's perhaps leisure more broadly, do you think we've missed a trick in terms of twenty-first century…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 2
—I was going to ask a bit more around the Welsh public library standards framework, and, Richard, you helpfully touched on it a few moments ago. I noted your point around the lack of, perhaps, a national strategy at the moment around libraries. But I'm just…
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Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 2
Yes, perhaps one quick point, and you're right, Chair—
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local government funding
As you outlined, the nature of the ratcheting of council tax at the moment—are you suggesting, then, that there should be a directly proportional tax on property in Wales?
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local government funding
Will you take an intervention, Mike?
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local government funding
This shows very clearly that decisions made by the Welsh Government have a big impact on the finances of Welsh local authorities, with major levers of funding that local authorities have in terms of delivering their services coming from the Welsh Government…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local government funding
Thank you again, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'm delighted to open this debate today on local government funding. As our motion outlines here today, we propose that the Senedd first of all notes that local authorities have an estimated £2.75 billion in useable…
, Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Wales tourism Bill
I'm delighted to be able to speak in support of Tom Giffard's excellent proposal to create a Wales tourism Bill, and as already outlined here today, the Bill would create a new tourism board for Wales, certainly empowering the businesses of our tourism sector…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
Minister, I'm sure you'd agree that the best and possibly the most sustainable way of helping to lift people out of poverty is to ensure that there are good-quality jobs and that there are businesses that thrive on Anglesey to support those jobs. And that's…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd: The Refreshed TB Eradication Programme
Minister, thank you for this update today on the TB eradication programme. As you will know, Minister, north Wales is such an important region for the agricultural industry and for farming families, who play such an important role, both in our local economy…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: The Free-port Programme in Wales
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and thank you also, Minister, for your statement today, and I join you, certainly, in welcoming the news that the UK Government plans to establish the two free ports in Wales, and also join the Member for Ynys Môn in…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 5
Thank you.
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The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 5
Yes, thank you for those responses, and I appreciate the analogy towards the end there as well, Koldo. It helps simple people like me to understand how the frameworks all fit together. I think, Simon, you mentioned earlier, in the contributions around due…
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The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 5
Thank you, Chairman, and thank you, gents, for joining committee this afternoon. I'm just interested to understand how a legal right to adequate housing might interact with existing domestic law or domestic rights that are in place in relation to housing and…
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The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 4
I'm really sorry, Chair, and Carolyn—I'm sorry to jump in here. I appreciate what you shared there. I think, if I'm being upfront, at the moment what I'm really struggling with is there's great examples of things being placed in law, pieces of paper being…
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The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 4
And just to perhaps expand on that then, would that be the reason perhaps places like France still have over 300,000 people as being homeless? So, whilst they might be signed up to the charter, with that not being enforceable, it's not perhaps making the…
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The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 4
Yes, thanks. It was actually just on the point previous, if you don't mind, Jessie, where the chairman asked about some of the practical differences of the right to adequate housing being incorporated, and you referenced I think it was article 31, and then…
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Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 1
Okay. That's fine. And perhaps a final quick point is around the financial benefits and challenges associated with the different delivery models. I would have thought one of those benefits for the charity-based model would be the ability to apply for certain…
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Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 1
Thank you for that, Owen. It makes sense and comes back to, I think, Jennifer's point earlier about when that relationship works well between those partner organisations, the external organisations can then link into it really well. That makes a lot of sense…
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Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 1
I think you've probably answered some of what my next questions and comments would have been, which were about that relationship between local authorities and those providers. And, Jennifer, you mentioned that the client-supplier relationship being a…
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Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 1
Great. Thank you for that. If I may move on, Chair, in terms of questions.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 1
and ask Lyn to come back on this, because I'm genuinely really interested in the role of town and community councils in these types of services? Would you share, perhaps, my concern that—you mentioned the 1964, I believe, Act; yes, an Act—there's too much…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 1
Chair, can I just carry this point on a little bit further—
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 1
Thank you for those responses. Lyn, I heard you mention earlier the example in Newtown in terms of where a town or community council—a town council in Newtown's instance—is taking on and seeking to deliver some of those services. I'm really interested in that…
