True Beauty/Gwir Harddwch
Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 3:50pm
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Tonight is the event at the National Assembly to mark Eating Disorders Awareness Week. The photo display has been up in the Senedd all day, and so the public have had a chance to see some of the best pictures that our judges chose for display. The winners will be announced tonight by Madeleine Brindley from the Western Mail, with speeches from Nigel Owens, and Susan Ringwood from the charity Beat. I’m really looking forward to the evening, after a tiring day yesterday. I think there should be a good turn out…
Today I met with a delegation from Sinn Fein at the National Assembly alongside Dai Lloyd AM, Nick Bourne AM, Kirsty Williams AM, Jeff Cuthbert and Rosemary Butler who had lunch with a few MLA’s and Councillors from Sinn Fein who are on an official visit to establish closer links with the Assembly, and to learn from how we work. They are interested in establishing a European and External Affairs committee, as they told us that at the moment, it is only their Ministers who are involved in issues surrounding European Convergence and Conflict funding, or policy areas pertaining to Europe. They also discussed with us educational matters, especially with regards the struggle that they are having with the Unionists to abolish the 11 plus. So too did they probe us on the development of Welsh Education, and their hopes of increasing the uptake of learning the Irish language in schools in the North.
This is a short visit of course, and I hope that we can create sustainable links with the Assembly in the North of Ireland, and with other political parties.
