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Introduction, apologies and substitutions Supporting documents:
Minutes: The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting. Apologies were received from Bethan Jenkins. There was no substitute. |
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(09.00-09.30) |
New petitions |
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P-04-672 End Use of Welsh Language Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to await the
petitioner’s response before considering the petition further. |
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P-04-673 Call for all Welsh Political Parties to Offer Everything Bilingually Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to await the
petitioner’s response before considering the petition further. |
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P-04-674 Say NO to Dyfed Supporting documents:
Minutes: William
Powell declared the following interest under Standing Order 17.24A: Both
he and the petitioner are Welsh Liberal Democrat prospective candidates for the
Assembly’s Mid and West Wales region. The
Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to write to the
Minister to seek his views on the petitioner’s further comments. |
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P-04-675 Cover the Cost of the Bedroom Tax in Wales Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to await the
petitioner’s response before considering the petition further. |
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P-04-676 Establish a Welsh Language Champion in our Communities in Wales Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to await the
petitioner’s response before considering the petition further. |
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P-04-677 Equal Access to Welsh Language Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to ask the
Minister for his views on the petitioner’s further comments. |
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P-04-678 Infirm Supports Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to await the
petitioner’s response before considering the petition further. |
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P-04-679 Remove the Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to await the
petitioner’s response before considering the petition further. |
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(09.30-10.30) |
Updates to previous petitions |
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P-04-658 The Brimmon Oak Supporting documents:
Minutes: ·
William
Powell declared the following interest under Standing Order 17.24A: He
has given procedural advice to the petitioners. ·
The
Committee considered correspondence from the petitioners and agreed to write to
the Minister to seek her views on the petitioners’ further comments and
specifically their concerns about: o
the
badger proof fencing which will potentially endanger the root system; o
the
lack of knowledge about the registration of the tree with the Woodland Trust in
2009; and o
the
nature of the ‘minimal work’ needed within the 15 metre tree root protection
zone. |
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P-04-565 Revive Disused Railway Lines for Leisure Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered correspondence from the Minister and agreed to close the
petition. |
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P-04-416 North-South Rail Services Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed, given that it
seems unlikely that further progress can be made on this petition in the near
future, to close it. |
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P-04-486 Act Now and Help Save the High Street Shops Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered correspondence from the petitioner and agreed to close the
petition. In doing so, they also agreed
to write to the Minister seeking an update for the petitioner on the latest
position in relation to the small business rate relief scheme. |
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P-04-363 Town Centre Improvement Scheme for Fishguard Supporting documents:
Minutes: William Powell declared
the following interest under Standing Order 17.24A: Both
he and the petitioner are Welsh Liberal Democrat prospective candidates for the
Assembly’s Mid and West Wales region. The
Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed to close it. |
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P-04-594 Cilmeri Community Council Appeal for The Prince Llywelyn Monument Supporting documents:
Minutes: William
Powell declared the following interest under Standing Order 17.24A: He
has given procedural advice to the petitioners. The
Committee considered the petition and agreed to write to the Minister to
expedite the meeting previously offered between Welsh Government officials and
the petitioners. |
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P-04-576 Allow Children in Wales to Have a Family Holiday in Term Time Supporting documents: Minutes: See
agreed action under item 3.8 |
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P-04-606 Ensure Schools Exercise their Statutory Powers Under Regulation 7 of the Education (Pupil Registration) (Wales) Regulations 2010 Without Interference or Bias. Supporting documents:
Minutes: William
Powell declared the following interest under Standing Order 17.24A: He
is a school governor. The
Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed to keep a
watching brief on the petition to allow the incoming Petitions Committee to
consider whether any further action might be necessary at that stage. |
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P-04-522 Asbestos in Schools Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered correspondence from the Minister for Education and Skills
and agreed to await a more substantive response from the petitioner. |
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P-04-603 Helping Babies Born at 22 Weeks to Survive Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered correspondence from the Chief Medical Officer and agreed,
given the involvement of the petitioner in the development of updated guidance
on the issue and that the petition has helped in ensuring that the very
difficult and sensitive matters raised by the petitioner are being addressed, to
close the petition. |
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P-04-456 Dementia - This Could Happen to you Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered correspondence from the petitioner and agreed to close the
petition. In doing so, Members wished to
convey their thanks for bringing the petition forward and to make the
petitioner aware of the opportunity to bring forward another petition in the
future should she wish to do so. |
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P-04-452 Equal Rights for Tube-fed Youngsters Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered correspondence from the petitioner and, given that they
felt they could do no more to take the matter forward, agreed to close the
petition. In doing so, Members wished to
thank the petitioner for bringing the petition forward and helping them to
understand the issues surrounding the petition. |
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P-04-424: Retain Services at Neath Port Talbot Hospital Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered correspondence from the petitioner and, given that they
felt they could do no more to take the petition any further forward, agreed to
close it. |
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P-04-624 That Foster Carers be Permitted to be Registered with More Than One Local Authority Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered correspondence from the petitioner and agreed to close the
petition. In doing so, they agreed to
write to the Minister for Health and Social Services to ask whether he has
taken advice from CSSIW on the matter and, if so, to let the Committee know the
outcome. |
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P-04-605 Save the Cwmcarn Forest Drive from Indefinite or Permanent Closure Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered correspondence from the petitioner and, in line with the
petitioner’s wishes, agreed to close it. |
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P-04-343 Prevent the destruction of amenities on Common Land Supporting documents:
Minutes: The
Committee considered correspondence from the petitioner and, given that they
felt they could do no more to take the petition forward, agreed to close it. |
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(10.30-11.00) |
Petitions Proposed for Closure Supporting documents: Minutes: The
Committee considered the paper and agreed, with the exception of P-04-617 Stop
the Wholesale Hiving Off of Public Libraries to the Voluntary Sector, to close
the petitions detailed on the paper. |