Agenda - Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 4 - Tŷ Hywel

Meeting date: 10 May 2023

Meeting time: 09.30 – 12.30
For further information contact:

Lleu Williams

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddCulture@senedd.wales

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Pre-meeting registration

(09.15 - 09.30)

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1       Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

(09.30)                                                                                                             

 

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2       Papers to note

(9.30)                                                                                                               

 

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2.1   Safeguarding the national collections

                                                                                                     (Pages 1 - 2)

Attached Documents:

§  Response from the Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport, and Chief Whip: Safeguarding the national collections - 27 April 2023

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2.2   Impact of increasing costs

                                                                                                     (Pages 3 - 4)

Attached Documents:

§  Response from the Minister for Finance and Local Government - Additional funding for swimming pools - 28 April 2023

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2.3   Welsh Government international relations

                                                                                                             (Page 5)

Attached Documents:

§  Welsh Government international visits - April 2023

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2.4   Inter-institutional relations agreement

                                                                                                     (Pages 6 - 7)

Attached Documents:

§  Letter to the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee from the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd: Interministerial Group on UK-EU Relations - 3 May 2023

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3       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from items 4 and 5 of the meeting

(09.30)                                                                                                             

 

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4       Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: consideration of the draft report on the Committee's initial findings

(09.30 - 09.50)                                                                           (Pages 8 - 36)

Attached Documents:

§  Draft report on the Committee's initial findings on the allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union

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5       Wales-Ireland relations: consideration of the key issues

(09.50 - 10.30)                                                                         (Pages 37 - 46)

Attached Documents:

§  Research brief and key issues paper: Inquiry into Wales-Ireland relations

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6       Welsh Government international relations: scrutiny of the First Minister

(10.30 - 11.15)                                                                         (Pages 47 - 88)

§  Mark Drakeford MS, First Minister for Wales

§  Andrew Gwatkin – Director, International Relations and Trade

§  Paula Walsh – Deputy Director, International Relations

Attached Documents:

§  Research Brief: Welsh Government international relations

§  Welsh Government: Annual Report on the Overseas Network - 2022-23

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Break

(11.15 - 11.20)

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7       Wales-Ireland relations: evidence session with the First Minister

(11.20 - 12.15)                                                                         (Pages 89 - 96)

§  Mark Drakeford MS, First Minister for Wales

§  Andrew Gwatkin – Director, International Relations and Trade

§  Paula Walsh – Deputy Director, International Relations

Attached Documents:

§  Evidence from the First Minister: Inquiry into Wales-Ireland relations

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8       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting

(12.15)                                                                                                             

 

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9       Wales-Ireland relations: consideration of evidence

(12.15 - 12.25)                                                                                                

 

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10    Welsh Government international relations: consideration of evidence

(12.25 - 12.30)                                                                                                

 

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