Mick Antoniw: ...in this debate as the Chair of the first ever Welsh parliamentary committee dedicated to the scrutiny of our constitution, legislation and now justice. So, this is a historic first for Wales, not only in our development as a parliament creating laws, but also in the emergence of our own legal system. My committee will be developing a programme of work aimed at scrutinising our existing...
Bethan Sayed: 2. What representations has the Minister made on behalf of the Welsh Government in relation to the peace plan for the state of Palestine and Israel recently advocated by the United States of America? OAQ55045
Mark Reckless: ...I think, on a cross-party basis, concerns have been raised is about the real-terms reduction in bus subsidy. Is that something where it's realistic for us to expect the Minister to have heard those representations and to make a change in response to them, or is it that the process allows people to think and perhaps be led on to expect a greater possibility of change, impact and influence...
Andrew RT Davies: ...Wales, which is your own regulator for many of the things in the environmental field, has had a flatline budget, which in effect is a real-terms cut. Can you confirm whether you did receive any representations from the environment Minister to try and secure a real-terms increase in NRW's budget, or haven't you received any representations? And if there is to be no increase in its budget,...
Rebecca Evans: ...employ funding and also legislation and smart policy ideas to support people and prevent people from becoming homeless. But, as I hope I've made clear to colleagues, I have been listening to the representations that have been made.
Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas: I am also aware of the representations made informally—as she is able to do as the constituency Member for Wrexham—by Lesley Griffiths. So, now we've got a coalition of Griffithses. [Laughter.] The future of the Racecourse is the responsibility of the owners of the Racecourse, and if there are any proposals in any part of Wales for the development of further sporting activity, including...
Bethan Sayed: ...the international community to try to reach a consensus on a two-state solution may get thrown away. I understand that you've written on this particular plan, but I want to understand what further representations you will seek to make to the Prime Minister and foreign Secretary to make it clear that you will not support any further encroachment by the Israeli Government in terms of the...
Elin Jones: ...we faced two requests of this nature: a purple plaque for Val Feld and a location for a statue for Rhodri Morgan. In light of these individual decisions the Commission had to take, and they were not straightforward or easy decisions to have taken, we decided to formulate a policy to aid Commissioners in the future on such matters. The policy, as I outlined, is merely one year old, and we...
Elin Jones: ...in this forum. I understand the point that you've made, and that the three Members who wrote to me have made. The Commission expressed its view on the policy that it has in place; that we were not able to make individual exceptions at that point. As I said in my answer to Andrew R.T. Davies, if political groups representing the majority view of this Assembly want to make representations on...
Rebecca Evans: ...their local development plans and exploring the burden of additional homes locally. In the first instance, I think the concerns you describe would be best made to the local authority in terms of representations on behalf of your community in relation to the specific planning applications that you have concerns with, because of course we'd be unable to comment on those just in case it did...
Leanne Wood: ...found in the River Cynon near Fernhill last year. I mentioned the colour of Christopher's skin because his family strongly believe that it's a factor in the Crown Prosecution Service's decision not to bring a prosecution in connection with his death. The decision came despite the CPS's assertion that there was, to use their own words, 'sufficient evidence' that Christopher was pushed into...
Janet Finch-Saunders: ...any promised financial support. The community response to their plea, though, has been exceptional. Many of us have been making an effort to be on hand, to help where we can, be that through making representation to the local authority—. And I have to give credit to Conwy County Borough Council for their immense efforts during storm Dennis, to ensure that those already affected weren't...
Vikki Howells: .... I hope you will have seen the letter jointly sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by representatives of RCT, and I note your comments about working with the UK Government. Will you make representations to ensure that RCT gets the help that it needs, where there is a duty on the UK Government, such as funding for infrastructure, council tax and rate relief exemption? I also note your...
Mick Antoniw: ...coverage. Yet, for a number of years now, we've been talking about and having discussions between—quite advanced discussions now—Rhondda Cynon Taf and Cardiff council, and of course various representations have been made, which Welsh Government's involved in, and that is for the re-opening of a railway line from Cardiff through to the Beddau spur, through to Llantrisant, Pontyclun,...
Jeremy Miles: Well, the meeting I had earlier this week with a range of stakeholders around Wales and Home Office officials, included representation from the Welsh Local Government Association. Most recently, we've made funding available to each local authority to support their efforts in addition to the Wales-wide efforts that we are making, so that local authorities have the capacity to do it themselves...
David Lloyd: ...and has fallen foul of the UK Government's points-based immigration system as a result. Now, Wales relies on the EU social care professionals, as it is, in an already overstretched system. So, what representations are you making about social care in Wales post Brexit?
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...iawn. Minister, there's been real and understandable anger at the crude label of 'low skilled' that the UK Government has now levelled at people such as social workers, when we know that they're not low skilled, they are low paid, and you simply cannot put a value on the precious human qualities of compassion and care. How would he respond to Dr Moira Fraser-Pearce, the director of policy...
Jeremy Miles: ...is a high figure. The reasons she outlines in her question for her concern are exactly the same reasons that lay behind my concern, and which is why I and others in the Government have made these representations directly to the Migration Advisory Committee. What we had hoped was that the version of the immigration policy that the UK Government brought forward would take into fuller regard...
Mick Antoniw: ...any manifesto or policy proposal in the Welsh Assembly; and their presence in this Chamber is, effectively, an unforeseen consequence of an electoral system that was intended to broaden democratic representation, but has, in my view, been abused to subvert its real democratic objective. And you have to ask what is the real purpose of this motion. Well, I think it is an opportunist attempt...
Rebecca Evans: I recall, in response to your representations to the Minister on this particular issue, that she was happy to come to the Rhondda to undertake a visit. I know that she's already been to Rhondda Cynon Taf more widely on two occasions, and Members right across the Government have been visiting and speaking to people who are quite understandably completely distressed by the flooding. I've spoken...
