Improving the Environment around the Assembly

Part of 3. Questions to the Assembly Commission – in the Senedd at 3:15 pm on 14 November 2018.

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Photo of Elin Jones Elin Jones Plaid Cymru 3:15, 14 November 2018

Unlike you, I've not been brave enough to visit the roof of the Pierhead to see the two beehives, but I'm very pleased that we're able to take part in that project. As you've suggested, there are a number of places around the estate where there has been planting of bee-friendly pollinators, and that includes the car park, and those plants and flowers remain in that car park. Also, around the Senedd building, you will have noticed the pot planting in the garden outside the Senedd cafe. We've had a recent meeting—our officials—with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to look as well at what can be done to attract more wildlife, and birds in particular, to the estate by means of nest boxes and a mini pond, possibly. Don't get excited at the prospect of a mini pond at the moment, but we're looking into a number of these issues—.