Agenda and minutes

Apologies were received from Bethan Jenkins.  Rhodri Glyn Thomas attended as a substitute.

The Chair thanked the clerking team for their swift processing of the petition.

The Committee agreed to:
Await response from the Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development;
Write to Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water.

The Committee agreed to await the responses from the Minister for Local Government and Communities, and await the consultation response which will close on 6 January 2012.

The Committee agreed to:
Await the response from the Minister for Education and Skills;
Write to the Welsh Local Government Association and to the Children’s Commissioner for Wales, seeking their views on the issue; and
Issue a targeted consultation.

The Committee agreed to:
Await the response from the Minister for Finance and the Leader of the House;
Write to Peter Black AM, Assembly Commissioner with responsibility for the Assembly Estate and facilities.

The Committee agreed to:
Await the response from the Minister for Health and Social Services;
Write to the Local Health Boards seeking their views on the issue.

The Committee agreed to write to the Minister for Education and Skills seeking his views on the petition.

The Committee agreed to:
Await the response from the Minister for Education and Skills;
Seek the views of the partners involved, including Local Councillors and Community Leaders; Communities First; the Police; and the Local Safeguarding Boards)
Copy the constituency and regional Assembly Members into this correspondence.

It was clarified that it was not the Stradey Park pitch which was subject to the ‘Village Green’ application as was stated in the update report, but an area in the wider Stradey Park estate.

The Committee agreed to await the outcomes of the Cadw consultation, due in April 2012;
Write to the developers to seek their views.

The Committee agreed to close the petition.

The Committee agreed:
To send a reminder letter to the Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage asking for his views on the petition;

That the clerking team should draw up a list of possible invitees to a round table discussion on the issue;

To write to sport bodies not included in the call for evidence to seek their views on the petition.

The Committee agreed to:

Keep the petition open until the revised regulations are issued;

Notify the petitioners that although there is little more that the Committee can do at this stage, it will return to the issue when the regulations have been issued.

The Committee agreed to write to the Cross-Party Group on the Horse, asking them to consider this petition.

Welsh Government witnesses

Lesley Griffiths, Minister for Health and Social Services

Andrew Walker, Head of Capital Estates and Facilities
Andrea Nicholas-Jones, Head of Older People Strategy
Helen Howson, Senior Health Strategy Advisor and Head of Community Health Strategy and Development

Minister for Health and Social Service, Lesley Griffiths AM
Andrew Walker, Head of Capital Estates and Facilities, Welsh Government
Andrea Nicholas-Jones, Head of Older People Strategy, Welsh Government (P-03-221 Improved NHS Chiropody Treatment)
Alison Stroud, Therapy Adviser for Wales (P-03-221 Improved NHS Chiropody Treatment)
Lisa Dunsford, Deputy Director - Primary Care, (P-03-222 National Osteoporosis Society)

Joyce Watson declared an interest in that her daughter works at University Hospital of Wales.

The Minister answered questions from the Committee on this issue.

Due to time constraints, the Committee decided to consider the Minister’s evidence at its next meeting in order to give full consideration to all three petitions.

The Minister answered questions from the Committee on this issue.

Due to time constraints, the Committee decided to consider the Minister’s evidence at its next meeting in order to give full consideration to all three petitions.

The Minister answered questions from the Committee on this issue.

Due to time constraints, the Committee decided to consider the Minister’s evidence at its next meeting in order to give full consideration to all three petitions.

Papers on the following petitions were noted.

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