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NDM6117 Debate: The Welsh Language Commissioner’s Annual Report 2015-16
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Meeting: 18/10/2016 - Plenary - Fifth Senedd (Item 7)
Debate: The Welsh Language Commissioner's Annual Report 2015-16
NDM 6117 Jane
Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan):
To
propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
Acknowledges the Welsh Language Commissioner's Annual Report for 2015-16, which
details the work undertaken by the Commissioner to promote and facilitate the
use of the Welsh language.
The
Welsh Language Commissioner's Annual Report for 2015-16
The following amendments
were tabled:
Amendment 1. Rhun
ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn)
Add
as new point at end of motion:
Notes
the importance of workforce planning to provide services through the medium of
Welsh as a central aspect to the efforts of government to reach the target of a
million Welsh speakers by 2050.
Amendment 2. Rhun
ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn)
Add
as new point at end of motion:
Calls
on the Welsh Government to work with the Welsh Language Commissioner to present
a national Welsh language strategy in the workplace in order to increase the
use of Welsh in the workplace and promote and raise awareness of the right to
receive services through the medium of Welsh.
Amendment 3. Rhun
ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn)
Add
as new point at end of motion:
Calls
on the Welsh Government to work with the Welsh Language Commissioner to
implement recommendation 4 in the report of the Working Group on the Welsh Language and Local Government: Language, work and
bilingual services, to place a statutory duty on local authorities,
including in their role as local education authorities, to undertake workforce
planning in terms of linguistic skills, and to provide suitable training to
meet those needs.
Minutes:
The item started at 17.54
NDM 6117 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan):
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
Acknowledges the Welsh Language Commissioner's Annual Report for 2015-16,
which details the work undertaken by the Commissioner to promote and facilitate
the use of the Welsh language.
The following amendments were tabled:
Amendment 1. Rhun ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn)
Add as new point at
end of motion:
Notes the
importance of workforce planning to provide services through the medium of
Welsh as a central aspect to the efforts of government to reach the target of a
million Welsh speakers by 2050.
Amendment 1 was agreed in accordance with
Standing Order 12.36.
Amendment 2. Rhun ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn)
Add as new point at
end of motion:
Calls on the Welsh
Government to work with the Welsh Language Commissioner to present a national
Welsh language strategy in the workplace in order to increase the use of Welsh
in the workplace and promote and raise awareness of the right to receive
services through the medium of Welsh.
Amendment 2 was agreed in accordance with
Standing Order 12.36.
Amendment 3. Rhun ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Calls on the Welsh Government to work with the Welsh Language
Commissioner to implement recommendation 4 in the report of the Working Group
on the Welsh Language and Local Government: Language, work and bilingual
services, to place a statutory duty on local authorities, including in their
role as local education authorities, to undertake workforce planning in terms
of linguistic skills, and to provide suitable training to meet those needs.
Amendment 3 was agreed in accordance with
Standing Order 12.36.
A vote was taken on the motion as amended:
NDM 6117 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan):
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Acknowledges the Welsh Language Commissioner's Annual Report for 2015-16,
which details the work undertaken by the Commissioner to promote and facilitate
the use of the Welsh language.
2. Notes the
importance of workforce planning to provide services through the medium of Welsh
as a central aspect to the efforts of government to reach the target of a
million Welsh speakers by 2050.
3. Calls on the
Welsh Government to work with the Welsh Language Commissioner to present a
national Welsh language strategy in the workplace in order to increase the use
of Welsh in the workplace and promote and raise awareness of the right to
receive services through the medium of Welsh.
4. Calls on the Welsh Government to work with the Welsh Language
Commissioner to implement recommendation 4 in the report of the Working Group
on the Welsh Language and Local Government: Language, work and bilingual
services, to place a statutory duty on local authorities, including in
their role as local education authorities, to undertake workforce planning in terms
of linguistic skills, and to provide suitable training to meet those needs.
The Motion as amended was agreed in
accordance with Standing Order 12.36.