Attendance
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Category
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Names
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Assembly Members:
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William Powell AM (Chair)
Russell George AM
Bethan Jenkins AM
Joyce Watson AM
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Witnesses:
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Committee Staff:
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Steve George (Clerk)
Kayleigh Driscoll (Deputy Clerk)
Kath Thomas (Deputy Clerk)
Jonathan Baxter (Researcher)
Lisa Salkeld (Legal Adviser)
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1
Introduction, apologies and substitutions
The Chair welcomed everybody to the meeting.
There were no apologies.
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2
New petitions
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2.1
P-04-650 Scrap Local Government Councillors’
Salaries
William Powell declared the following relevant
interest under Standing Order 17.24A:
He is a Member of Powys County Council.
Russell George declared the following relevant
interest under Standing Order 17.24A:
He is a Member of Powys County Council.
The Committee considered correspondence on the
petition for the first time and agreed to:
·
write to Minister asking him to clarify some of the issues raised
in the wording of the petition; and
·
await the petitioner’s views on the Minister’s original
letter.
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2.2
P-04-652 Android and iOS - Welsh in the 21st Century
The Committee considered correspondence on the
petition for the first time and agreed to await the views of the
petitioner before responding to the First Minister.
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3
Updates to previous petitions
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3.1
P-04-408 Child and Adolescent Eating Disorder Service
Bethan Jenkins declared the following relevant
interest under Standing Order 17.24A:
She is Chair of the Cross Party Group on
Eating Disorders.
The Committee considered correspondence on the
petition and agreed to draw together the history of the
Committee’s consideration of the issue and report to the
Assembly before closing the petition.
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3.2
P-04-492 Diagnosis of autism in children
The Committee considered correspondence on the
petition and agreed to:
- await the publication of the Task
and Finish Group’s Report; and
- in the meantime, write to the
Minister asking him to provide the Committee with a timeframe for
the review and to ask for his views on Professor Trevor
Purt’s call for further policy guidance on the relative
contributions of Community Child Health/Community Paediatrics and
of CAMHS.
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3.3
P-04-532 Improving specialised neuromuscular services in
Wales
Bethan Jenkins declared the following relevant
interest under Standing Order 17.24A:
She is Chair of the Cross Party Group on
Muscular Dystrophy and Neuromuscular Conditions.
The Committee considered correspondence on the
petition and agreed to:
- Pursue with Health Boards how the
benefits of additional neuromuscular consultant time (as identified
by ABMU in particular) can be realised across Wales; and
- write to the Health and Social Care
Committee asking them to consider the issue as part of their
forward work programme.
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3.4
P-04-640 Bring Down the Age of Smears to 18
The Committee considered correspondence on the
petition and agreed to:
- give the petitioner more time to
comment on the substantial information provided by the UK National
Screening Committee; and
- seek her views on the recent letter
from the Minister for Health and Social Services.
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3.5
P-04-539 Save Cardiff Coal Exchange
The Committee considered correspondence on the
petition and agreed to await comments from the petitioner before
considering further steps.
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3.6
P-04-544 Ban the Shooting of Greenland White-fronted
Geese
Joyce Watson declared the following relevant
interest under Standing Order 17.24A:
She is involved with a number of groups who
are in support of the petition.
The Committee considered correspondence on the
petition and agreed to:
- await comments from the
petitioners; and
- close the petition if none are
forthcoming in the next 6 weeks.
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3.7
P-04-632 Mynyddoedd Pawb
The Committee considered correspondence on the
petition and agreed to:
- write to the Deputy Minister asking
for his comments on the generally very supportive comments of the
Welsh language Commissioner and the Chair of RCAHMW; and
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- ask whether he has been in
discussion with any other Ministers on the issue.
- pass the correspondence received on
to the Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee for
them to be aware of and take into account in their consideration of
the Historic Environment (Wales) Bill;
- seek outstanding responses from
Visit Wales and the Wales Tourism Alliance; and
- make the petitioners aware that
they are able to contact other Assembly Members and Members of the
Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee given their
consideration of the Historic Environment (Wales) Bill.
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4
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public
from the meeting for the following business:
The motion was agreed.
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5
Review of the National Assembly for Wales Petitions System
The Committee considered progress on the
review of the petitions system.
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