15 January 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 1 - Evidence session with ITV
It doesn't cost it at all. Come on.
15 January 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 1 - Evidence session with ITV
But he needs to answer the question.
15 January 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 1 - Evidence session with ITV
You do have a choice.
15 January 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 1 - Evidence session with ITV
You do have a choice.
15 January 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 1 - Evidence session with ITV
You know, I'm 62 years old. When I was organising student protests in Aberystwyth, there'd be a whole tribe of you turning up and we'd have to bike it back to Cardiff at lunchtime before evening broadcast. We know the world has changed. I know that somebody…
15 January 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 1 - Evidence session with ITV
I know it.
15 January 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 1 - Evidence session with ITV
I don't want to interrupt you all the time, but, honestly, we know all of this.
15 January 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 1 - Evidence session with ITV
But my issue is—and you still haven't answered my question, by the way—that you were spending around £6 million, I think it was, back in 2018; you're still spending £6 million today. We know that inflation in the sector is reasonably higher than inflation…
15 January 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 1 - Evidence session with ITV
You do what the channel 3 licence demands that you do, of course.
15 January 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 1 - Evidence session with ITV
We understand the nature of public broadcasting as well.
15 January 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 1 - Evidence session with ITV
Look, we understand that the environment is changing. And we've heard, sorry, your predecessor give this speech for the last 20 years, quite frankly. We understand that there's change taking place. And ITV have used this argument throughout the time that I've…
15 January 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 1 - Evidence session with ITV
No, let me finish. You were spending that much back in 2018 as well, so we haven't seen an increase in real terms; we've seen a decrease in funding.
15 January 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 1 - Evidence session with ITV
There's nothing new about that, though, and you were spending that much—
15 January 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 1 - Evidence session with ITV
No, I'd prefer you to answer the question, actually.
15 January 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 1 - Evidence session with ITV
Yes. I'm interested in your service to Wales and why you spend so little in this country.
13 January 2026 , Plenary
& 10. The general principles of the Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill
I never argued that I'm not going to take this forward to Stage 2. I actually started my contribution, if you were listening, saying that we needed large parts of this Bill, and you don't suggest that you need large parts of this Bill and then vote against it…
13 January 2026 , Plenary
& 10. The general principles of the Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill
You didn't know the question either.
13 January 2026 , Plenary
& 10. The general principles of the Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill
I will give way. I'm happy to give way if the Llywydd allows me to.
13 January 2026 , Plenary
& 10. The general principles of the Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill
I described the cesspit of X. Now, don't try to misrepresent in this debate what I just said. You can't actually tell me what that amendment is, but you're asking me to support it. Now, let me say to you, Adam, let me say to you—[Interruption.] Let me say to…
13 January 2026 , Plenary
& 10. The general principles of the Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill
I think one thing that unites everybody in this Chamber, no matter what they might feel about this particular Bill, is a great deal of sympathy for the Counsel General, who finds herself in this situation this afternoon. The Bill seeks to do a number of…
13 January 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: Progress and future delivery of the Welsh Economy
I very much agree with the Cabinet Secretary's analysis of the economic inheritance. The previous UK Conservative Government was one of the most economically incapable and incompetent that I can remember in my lifetime. Together with the disaster of Brexit…
13 January 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Winter Pressures
I'm grateful to the Cabinet Secretary for outlining the pressures facing our national health service at this time of year. He will be aware, and we’ve spoken over recess, about some of the pressures facing people in Blaenau Gwent, and he’s aware of my…
12 January 2026 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
In the correspondence, Julie James does say that she queried progress with the women's residential centre in Swansea. This is something that the committee has taken an interest in over the long years that this has not been progressed, so it would be useful if…
12 January 2026 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
I've got a comment to make.
29 January 2025 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Brexit and the future relationship with the EU
No, it doesn't surprise me at all, because hypocrisy is hard-wired into the Conservatives. They worship Winston Churchill, of course, and his international legacy is the European convention on human rights. Now, he recognised, in the years after the…
