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Plaid Cymru Debate: The rail network
Will you take an intervention?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The rail network
Fourteen billion pounds has not been promised to Wales. This is a list of projects that need to be done in Wales. I agree, you could add to it, but there is no promise of money to Wales.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The rail network
I'm not as ideologically driven as the Conservative Member is. Can he confirm that he is happy for Wales to be underfunded for rail, as long as rail stays centralised at Westminster?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The rail network
Will you take an intervention?
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Questions to the First Minister
I note that the First Minister avoided the question on homelessness and avoided responding on Labour's 27 years of failure. Yesterday, she held up a piece of cardboard with five sentences on it; Plaid have a detailed plan for our first 100 days, and that's…
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Questions to the First Minister
I'm grateful to the First Minister for that response. I'd ask that she continues to update Senedd Members so that we can pass on any relevant information to constituents of ours who I know have been contacting us, too. Llywydd, turning to matters closer to…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd. I know I speak on behalf of everyone in this Chamber when I express my deep concern about the escalating violence in the middle east, including its impact on Welsh citizens. I know, too, that we all condemn the brutality and the…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: Local Growth Fund Investment Plan for Wales
I noted that the Minister hadn't answered Luke Fletcher's point on the hundreds of jobs that are at risk because of the situation with this new local growth fund. I want to speak specifically very briefly about Môn CF, a charity and a company that belongs to…
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Questions to the First Minister
The target was set after Brexit and then cut by 20 per cent, but I think that the First Minister is somewhat missing the point. It makes not a bit of difference whether the advice to change the measure came from inside or outside Wales. The point is that the…
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Questions to the First Minister
I'm very interested in this idea of new ideas from outside Wales on measuring delivery. I'll tell you how apprenticeships have traditionally been counted. You don't count them until an apprentice has completed eight weeks. You don't measure those dropping out…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Llywydd. On the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, we state unequivocally today that we stand with the people of Ukraine. And, as we reflect on the cruel tyranny of Putin, we remember the importance of democracy, including our own. As we…
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Questions to the First Minister
It must have been a very long Cabinet meeting if it started yesterday afternoon and you couldn't get a statement out until this morning. But the real reason why the First Minister is so passive when it comes to passing judgment on the Prime Minister is…
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Questions to the First Minister
Her attack of Peter Mandelson is no doubt justified; her continued defence of the Prime Minister, of course, raises more questions. Whatever the depths of chaos in Downing Street, the First Minister's record is one of, ultimately, defaulting to supporting…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd. Last week, I wrote to the First Minister to ask her to formally investigate whether Peter Mandelson's actions, including his sharing of Government information with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, had in any way undermined…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Health board governance
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. Of the 12 and a half years I've been the representative for Ynys Môn here, the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board has been in some kind of special measures in eight and a half of those years. And it's worth adding that only for…
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Questions to the First Minister
I did make the point that multi-year deals can mean different things, including structural changes that can be ongoing. Short-term measures are often sticking plaster solutions. Looking to the longer term, it's clear to me that the business rates system in…
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Questions to the First Minister
I agree with you that business is looking for stability, and it's why the pro-business attitude shown by Plaid Cymru is so attractive to so many people leading businesses in Wales now. The Welsh Government's written statement makes reference to using its own…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Llywydd. Last night I was in a room full of businesspeople who share the same aspiration as me of seeing a prosperous Wales and a wealthier Wales. The challenges faced by Welsh businesses, of course, are very real, and Brexit, COVID and the…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
You can't afford it, can you?
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
Just very, very simply—and thank you for taking an intervention—will you explain to the people of Wales why you were happy to have council tax increases of up to 20 per cent or even more, based on your negotiation that wanted to favour those with the largest…
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Questions to the First Minister
You know what, people watching this will be remembering the question that I asked, and I'll tell you what, it's a masterclass in wriggling out of addressing her impotence in relation to the UK Government. And remember that we don't want devolution for the…
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Questions to the First Minister
You talked about the constitution when you were delivering that speech last week, only to find out four or five days later again how powerless you are to have any influence over UK Government Ministers. More wriggling, as I anticipated. I urge the First…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Llywydd. Yesterday, the Home Secretary outlined what she described as the biggest reform of policing in 200 years. That should surely be a big opportunity for Wales. Last week, the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice stood in this Chamber and she…
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Topical Questions
I thank the Cabinet Secretary for that response. Now, I did have to check with my staff today, asking them, 'Can you check exactly when the bridge had to close? Are we sure that it was the end of 2022?' And, yes, it was the end of 2022, and today's…
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Topical Questions
1. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the delay to the phase 2 works on the Menai suspension bridge? TQ1432
