Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth
Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion
3:00 pm
Ms Jane Davidson:
The only thing I would like to add, if I may, is when a government consults - and I have been Minister for 11 years and have done a lot of consulting - as has already been said we tend to get the usual people responding. What we did in The Wales We Want campaign was hand it over completely to the voluntary sector in Wales. All of those thousands of people in their own organisations the length and breadth of Wales were the ones who responded to it. They said what kind of vision they wanted for Wales for the future. I was delighted because it accorded very much with the vision we consulted on in "One Wales: One Planet", which is available for anyone to read. That was back in 2009. For us all of this has been a long journey from 2009 to now. The very important point is how we get to participatory democracy to have a real role in this. There are many more tools for it now than we had available to us in Wales in 2014. It was also part of a much bigger agenda in terms of the world we want, which was an important aspect also.