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Questions to the First Minister
I'm glad that the First Minister recognises my commitment to Wales in being here fighting for Wales in the Welsh Parliament. We know that she has her seat in the House of Lords as Baroness Morgan of Ely, of course. We hear Labour talking about tough…
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Questions to the First Minister
Like her predecessor—her two predecessors, actually, over the past six months—we're told by the new First Minister time and again that having two Labour Governments working in partnership should be to the benefit of Wales. It doesn't feel like it when it…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you very much, Llywydd. It's a little over a month since we stood here congratulating our new First Minister on her appointment. Now, in the first opportunity to question her, what we find, or what we're trying to find out, is what exactly the new…
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Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
I wish the new First Minister well. [Applause.]
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Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
So, yes, we congratulate the new First Minister. We wish her well today. But we also remind her and her Government that, in similar circumstances elsewhere, the Labour hierarchy argued that multiple changes in leadership in Westminster and in Scotland…
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Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Thank you very much, Llywydd. On behalf of Plaid Cymru, I congratulate the First Minister on her nomination, and I wish her well as she takes the reins and grapples with the significant challenges that she faces. Although other parties here, including my own…
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Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Rhun ap Iorwerth.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Motion under Section 37(1)(b) of the Government of Wales Act 2006
I asked some specific questions particularly around the role of the Counsel General. I understand that people can forget to deal with certain issues as they respond, but perhaps this is the time to get clarity on what exactly the situation is in terms of that…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Motion under Section 37(1)(b) of the Government of Wales Act 2006
Can I make a very brief point of order, Llywydd?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Motion under Section 37(1)(b) of the Government of Wales Act 2006
Which one?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Motion under Section 37(1)(b) of the Government of Wales Act 2006
No allegations were made against him.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Motion under Section 37(1)(b) of the Government of Wales Act 2006
Will you take an intervention? I think we have to remember that at the heart of the decision by the outgoing First Minister to sack a Minister was an accusation made about that Minister, and we're talking here about what the evidence was that gave him grounds…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Motion under Section 37(1)(b) of the Government of Wales Act 2006
Yesterday's release of material relating to the leak of information hasn't really, if we're honest, taken us a great leap forward. We're being asked to play a game of join the dots here, to conclude that the Member in question was directly involved in the…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Motion under Section 37(1)(b) of the Government of Wales Act 2006
In light of the First Minister's decision to resign, it would be easy to come to the conclusion that we are actually behind the curve in today's debate, but it still relates to scrutiny of Government. I echo what has been said by many already, that getting to…
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Debate: Welsh Government Annual Report—Delivering the government’s priorities and legislative programme
To turn to the Government's priorities for the coming months and years, this idea of a managed decline has defined the attitude of Welsh Governments for far too long, I think, and there is precious little in the programme for government announced last week to…
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Debate: Welsh Government Annual Report—Delivering the government’s priorities and legislative programme
Here's a quote from the annual report, which tells you a lot about what the Government hopes to achieve: 'we will use less resource intensive ways to share our plans and progress so we can relentlessly focus on practical delivery'. It's a pretty revealing…
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Debate: Welsh Government Annual Report—Delivering the government’s priorities and legislative programme
I forgive the Deputy Presiding Officer. I welcome the opportunity to respond to this annual report. I will start positively, on a day when that can perhaps feel difficult, and say that there are several positives in this annual report, and that's thanks to…
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Questions to the First Minister
I believe, though, that the Welsh public has judged that Government has not been able to operate, over the past three months, because of the scandals around our First Minister. And those past three months have been a classic case, I think, of party before…
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Questions to the First Minister
This is about more than just the actions of a First Minister, it's about Labour's collective approach. After 25 years leading Welsh Government, Labour have proved themselves unable, I think, to address the significant challenges that we face as a nation: when…
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Questions to the First Minister
He was pushed, ultimately, by the resignation of four Ministers, all four of whom voted to declare their confidence in him recently. Their opportunity to show decisive action had long passed. Keir Starmer himself stood by him throughout, either oblivious to…
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Questions to the First Minister
For months, the lack of good sense of the First Minister and his unwillingness to be scrutinised has undermined the role of the First Minister and has brought Welsh politics into disrepute. Very seldom does the head of a Government in a democracy ignore the…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Llywydd. The First Minister has made the right decision today, and I personally wish him well. He will have been under immense pressure over the past few weeks, and I, for one, have never doubted his sense of public service. This, however, is a…
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Topical Questions
Most of us were here yesterday when the Member for Delyn gave her personal statement, and across the benches in this Senedd we all owe it to each other to look after one another, and we all appreciated how difficult it would have been for Hannah to speak…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
I'm disappointed today not just in the lack of confidence in Wales that I hear from Members from the Conservative benches—I guess we're used to that, but have some confidence in the opportunities that devolution offers us. But the main disappointment is in…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
Thank you very much, Llywydd, and thank you to everyone who has participated in this debate. Apart from the contributions from these benches, I have to say how disappointed I am in the contributions.
