Meeting Venue:
Committee Room 1 - Senedd
Meeting date: Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Meeting
time: 09.00 -
10.44
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/3947
Category |
Names |
Assembly Members: |
Mike Hedges AM (Chair) Gareth Bennett AM Angela Burns AM Neil McEvoy AM |
Witnesses: |
Simon Cursio, First Cymru Joe Graham, Great Western Railway Margaret Hickish MBE, Network Rail Barry Lloyd, Arriva Trains Wales Geraint Morgan, Arriva Trains Wales Cynthia Ogbonna, Cardiff Bus John Pockett, Confederation of Passenger Transport |
Committee Staff: |
Graeme Francis (Clerk) Kayleigh Driscoll (Deputy Clerk) Kath Thomas (Deputy Clerk) Sam Mason (Legal Adviser) |
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The Chair welcomed everyone to meeting. Angela Burns attended in place of Janet Finch-Saunders.
The Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to await the outcome of the petitioner’s meeting with Welsh Government officials before considering how to progress the petition.
The Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to await the petitioner’s views on the response from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure before considering how to progress the petition.
The Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to await the view of the petitioner in response to the letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Environment & Rural Affairs before considering how to progress the petition.
The Committee considered correspondence on the petition and, given the petitioners’ satisfaction with the commitments made regarding the provision of services, agreed to close the petition. Members also wished to congratulate the petitioners on the successful outcome of their petition.
The Committee considered correspondence on the petition and, given that the main aim of the petition is now being met, agreed to close the petition. In doing so, Members also wished to thank the petitioners for their engagement with the petitions process.
The Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed to await the view of the petitioner in response to the correspondence from the Welsh Government and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board before considering how best to progress the petition.
The Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed to write to the Cabinet Secretary for Education to ask whether any further steps have been taken in relation to this issue in response to the information received from local authorities, since the last correspondence between the Committee and her predecessor in February 2016.
Mike Hedges declared the following relevant interest under Standing Order 17.24A:
His sister is profoundly deaf and he has had some involvement with the petitioners but not in relation to this specific petition.
The Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed to ask the petitioners, the WLGA and the Minister for Lifelong Learning and Welsh Language to come in to give evidence to the Committee at a future meeting.
The Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed to close the petition given that the primary subject of the original petition, which was the subsidy level for 2017/18, has been resolved.
The Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed to contact the petitioner to ask if he has any further comments on the information received from the Welsh Government.
The Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed to write to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure to seek an update on the outcome of the petitioners’ discussion with Welsh Government officials.
The Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed to:
· await a response from the Equalities, Local Government and Communities Committee as to whether they intend to conduct further work on this issue, before deciding on how to progress the petition; and
· ask the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children when he intends to make a statement on the issue.
The witnesses answered questions from the Committee.