Meeting Venue:
Committee room 4
Tŷ Hywel
and video
Conference via Zoom
Meeting date: Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Meeting time: 09.30 - 12.10
This meeting can
be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/13860
Attendance
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Category
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Names
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Members of the Senedd:
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Llyr Gruffydd MS (Chair)
Delyth Jewell MS
Mark Drakeford MS (In place of Julie Morgan
MS)
Carolyn Thomas MS
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Witnesses:
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Carl Banton, The Coal Authority
Daniel Therkelsen, Coal Action Network
Haf Elgar, Friends of the Earth
Marcus Bailie, Extinction Rebellion Cymru
David Kilner, Climate Cymru
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Committee Staff:
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Marc Wyn Jones (Clerk)
Elizabeth Wilkinson (Second Clerk)
Lukas Evans Santos (Deputy Clerk)
Lorna Scurlock (Researcher)
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1
Introductions, apologies, substitutions,
and declarations of interest
1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the
meeting.
1.2 Apologies were received from Joyce Watson
MS and Mark Drakeford MS substituted.
1.3 Apologies were also received from Julie
Morgan MS and from Janet Finch-Saunders MS.
</AI1>
<AI2>
2
Restoration of opencast mining sites -
evidence session 1
2.1 The Committee received evidence from The
Coal Authority.
</AI2>
<AI3>
3
Restoration of opencast mining sites -
evidence session 2
3.1 The Committee received evidence from
representatives from The Coal Action Network and Friends of the
Earth Cymru.
</AI3>
<AI4>
4
Restoration of opencast mining sites -
evidence session 3
4.1 The Committee received evidence from
representatives from Extinction Rebellion Cymru and Climate
Cymru.
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<AI5>
5
Papers to note
5.1 The papers were noted.
</AI5>
<AI6>
5.1
The Environment and Rural Affairs
(Revocation and Consequential Provision) Regulations
2024
</AI6>
<AI7>
5.2
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft
Budget 2024-25
</AI7>
<AI8>
5.3
Wind farm project at Mynydd
Maen
</AI8>
<AI9>
5.4
The Carbon Budget Delivery
Plan
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<AI10>
5.5
Decarbonisation of housing
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<AI11>
5.6
Performance of Dwr Cymru Welsh
Water
</AI11>
<AI12>
6
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi)
and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of
today's meeting
6.1 The motion was agreed.
</AI12>
<AI13>
7
Consideration of evidence received under
items 2, 3 and 4
7.1 Members considered the
evidence received under items 2, 3 and 4.
</AI13>
<AI14>
8
Consideration of draft report on Natural
Resources Wales - 2023-24
8.1 Members agreed the draft report subject to
a few minor amendments.
</AI14>
<AI15>
9
Consideration of the Committee's forward
work programme - Summer 2024
9.1 The Committee discussed and agreed its
Forward Work Programme.
</AI15>
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