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Committee Room 1 - Senedd |
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Meeting date: |
Tuesday, 24 January 2012 |
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09:30 - 10:28 |
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Assembly Members: |
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William Powell (Chair) Russell George Bethan Jenkins Joyce Watson |
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Abigail Phillips (Clerk) Sarita Marshall (Deputy Clerk) Helen Roberts (Legal Advisor) |
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1. Introduction, apologies and substitutions
There were no apologies.
2. New petitions
2.1P-04-358 Re-instate Home Support for children with ASD and their families in the Caerphilly County Borough
The Committee agreed to await the Minister’s response.
2.2P-04-360 Penylan Not Spot Petition
The Committee agreed to:
Forward the correspondence from BT to the petitioners;
Await the Minister’s response.
2.3P-04-361 Free bus passes for students under 25, and in full-time education
The Committee agreed to:
Commission research on the costings of providing free bus travel for students under 25 and in full-time education, taking account of the pilot study undertaken in Bridgend;
Take oral evidence from the petitioners, potentially via video conference;
Seek the views of the National Union of Students on the subject of the petition.
3. Updates to previous petitions
3.1P-03-296 Unfair Proposals on Student Loans
The Committee agreed to forward the Minister’s letter to the petitioners for comment, with a view to closing the petition if they are content.
3.2P-04-349 Welsh-medium Provision - Caerphilly
The Committee agreed to forward the Minister’s letter and announcement to the petitioners and seek their views on how his written statement relates to their concerns.
3.3P-03-262 Academi Heddwch Cymru / Wales Peace Institute
The Committee agreed to:
Forward the petition and information gathered so far to the Cross-party Group on Human Rights and request that the working up of a concept for the establishment of such an institution is placed on future agendas;
Forward the consultation responses gathered to the petitioners to work up a concept in parallel and suggest that they lobby individual Members to hold a Member-led debate in Plenary on the subject.
3.4P-04-341 Waste and Incineration
The Committee agreed to:
Invite witnesses, including the Minister, to give oral evidence on energy from waste;
Inform the petitioners that the Environment and Sustainability Committee are undertaking an inquiry into energy policy and ask whether they would like to suggest any lines of questioning for that inquiry.
3.5P-04-344 Freshwater East Public Sewer
The Committee agreed to write to the petitioners highlighting Lamphey Community Council’s decision and asking for their response, with a view to closing the petition if they are content.
3.6P-04-345 Rail and Bus Links between Aberystwyth and Carmarthen
Given the Minister’s response and the content of the consultation responses, the Committee agreed to:
Write to the petitioners to ask for detail on any problems experienced with the existing road links;
Advise the petitioners with regard to the National Transport Plan.
4. Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the following business:
The Committee agreed to remain in public session.
4.1P-04-328 MCA Modernising Coastguard Proposals
The Committee then agreed to:
Forward the evidence gathered and detail of concerns to the UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport;
Add a second recommendation to the report that the Minister for Local Government and Communities reopen discussions with the UK Government on the closure issue, especially in light of events in Italy.
Forward the Committee’s report to the Welsh Affairs Committee.
5. Discussion of Minister's Oral Evidence - 10 January Meeting
The Committee agreed to:
Consider the Guide Dogs for the Blind – Shared Spaced petition further with the Minister for Local Government and Communities once he feels the Government has sufficient evidence to take a view;
Forward details of the threshold number of road accidents at which safety measures and/or monitoring is put in place and the Minister’s statement on road accident prevention measures to the Road Safety in Llanspyddid petitioners for comment, once received from the Minister;
Forward the transcript of the meeting to all four sets of petitioners as well as the community council for Llanspyddid for comment.
Forward the before and after study to the Local Solutions to Newtown Traffic petitioners and the Newtown Traffic petitioners once received from the Minister.
6. Papers to Note
6.1P-03-205 Keep Abergavenny Livestock Market
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