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Politicians and business leaders line up to warn David Cameron not | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
to damage our relationship with the EU. Are they right? Should he | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
lissnn a week when the government has been busy marking its own | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
homework, we ask the community secretaries, Eric Pickles, when it | :00:59. | :01:07. | |
comes to housing policy, it's a case of must try much harder. As | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
violent protests continue in Belfast over the decision to cut | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
the number of days the Union Flag flies above City Hall we will | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
debate the decision and the significance of the riots, as two | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
politicians at the heart of the controversy go head-to-head. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Later in the programme.we hear a call for "strong political | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
leadership" ahead of what's expected to be radical reforms for | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2534 seconds | :01:38. | :43:52. | |
the National Health Service in Hello, and on the Sunday Politics | :43:52. | :43:54. | |
Wales, the patients' watchdog, the Community Health Council, tells us | :43:54. | :43:57. | |
that "strong political leadership" is needed ahead of a week where we | :43:57. | :44:00. | |
should hear about proposals for what are expected to be radical | :44:00. | :44:04. | |
changes to the NHS in some parts of the country. | :44:04. | :44:08. | |
.Is the glass half empty or half full? | :44:08. | :44:10. | |
What's the future looking like for the pub. | :44:10. | :44:12. | |
Joining me throughout today's programme are Labour's Nia Griffith | :44:12. | :44:20. | |
and the Conservative, Nick Ramsay. Welcome. Happy New Year. Let's | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
start the programme on comments from the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
this morning, on Europe. He accused your party leader, David Cameron, | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
on taking the country sleepwalking to a European exit. What do you | :44:31. | :44:36. | |
think about those comments? I don't think David Cameron is sleepwalking | :44:36. | :44:41. | |
anywhere. He is doing it wide-awake, is he? Whether you say sleepwalking | :44:41. | :44:46. | |
or wide-awake, the fact is in are concerns there amongst the public | :44:46. | :44:49. | |
about the future of the European Union. It's in a state of flux. We | :44:49. | :44:52. | |
know about the economic situation. David Cameron is quite right to say | :44:52. | :44:56. | |
to people at some point in the future there is the possibility of | :44:56. | :44:58. | |
having a referendum on our membership and the type of | :44:58. | :45:02. | |
relationship we have with the European Union. You mentioned there | :45:02. | :45:05. | |
are concerns in the public. There are concerns within your party, | :45:05. | :45:09. | |
aren't there? There Are concerns within my party. They are concerned | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
about the threat of UKIP? There are concerns we represent the views of | :45:12. | :45:16. | |
people out. There when I speak to my constituents there is no doubt | :45:16. | :45:20. | |
at all that Europe is a concern of them. I don't think the | :45:20. | :45:23. | |
Conservative Party would be honouring its responsibilities to | :45:23. | :45:25. | |
the electorate if we didn't say, at some point, we think that you | :45:25. | :45:29. | |
should be able to have a say on this. If there was a referendum, | :45:29. | :45:35. | |
how would you vote? At the moment, I think that our interests of the | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
United Kingdom are served by being in the European Union. That might | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
be different at some point in the future. We have to look carefully | :45:42. | :45:47. | |
at the implicationss for jobs, for our economy for not being part of | :45:47. | :45:50. | |
the European Union. We need to look at the way it looks at the moment | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
and our renegotiation. Nia Griffith, are you concerned that David | :45:54. | :45:57. | |
Cameron is trying to take the UK out of the EU? What happened this | :45:57. | :46:05. | |
week in Swindon, where we saw 80 jobs being lost at Honda. 800, I | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
think? Sorry. 800. Is the reason why we really do need to be | :46:08. | :46:13. | |
influencing what is happening in Europe. It's absolutely clear to me | :46:13. | :46:20. | |
that in Europe, whether we are in the eurozone or outside the | :46:20. | :46:23. | |
Eurozone we are influential we depend on marketing our produce and | :46:23. | :46:29. | |
manufacturered goods to Europe. Now, if we are showing very silly side. | :46:29. | :46:33. | |
We are, sort of, playing silly and sulking and walking off and turning | :46:33. | :46:37. | |
our back, then other people in Europe are going to say - why | :46:37. | :46:40. | |
bother with the UK? We will not have the influence we should have. | :46:40. | :46:44. | |
My view is we need a very, very strong voice indeed in Europe. We | :46:44. | :46:49. | |
need to be influencing because it is, at the end of the day, jobs for | :46:49. | :46:52. | |
our people. We will be back with you shortly. | :46:52. | :46:54. | |
The patients' watchdog, the Community Health Council, is | :46:54. | :46:56. | |
calling for "strong political leadership" ahead of what's | :46:56. | :47:01. | |
expected to be radical reforms of the NHS proposed next week. | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
Hywel Dda in West Wales and the Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board in | :47:04. | :47:07. | |
North Wales will confirm details of their plans for hospital | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
reorganisation next week. Brian Meechan begins his report | :47:10. | :47:16. | |
from the Nurse Training Centre at the University of Glamorgan. The | :47:16. | :47:21. | |
NHS is suffering. It's under pressure because of an increasingly | :47:21. | :47:26. | |
elderly population and also the general cost of treating patience. | :47:26. | :47:29. | |
Many clinicians say they find it difficult to provide the safest | :47:29. | :47:34. | |
services at so many hospitals. All of this, at a time when NHS budgets | :47:34. | :47:39. | |
are being cut that is why experts say we can no longer provide | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
services the way we have always done. We have to change. If we | :47:42. | :47:49. | |
don't change, we will end up in a perfect storm, as some people have | :47:49. | :47:55. | |
said, but this actually gives us a really good opportunity to make a | :47:55. | :48:00. | |
root and branch restructuring of the health service in Wales. | :48:00. | :48:03. | |
know historically there are patients in hospital who do not | :48:03. | :48:07. | |
need to be in hospital. By being in hospital they are increasing risks | :48:07. | :48:11. | |
of other things happening to them. We need to ensure that only the | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
patients who require hospital iedsation and require to go into | :48:14. | :48:20. | |
hospital for tests -- hospital iedsation, actually go into | :48:20. | :48:24. | |
hospital. Everyone else should be managed within the community, by | :48:24. | :48:29. | |
primary care -- hospitalisation. In order to do that, we need shift | :48:29. | :48:33. | |
resources so that both professionals, facilities and | :48:33. | :48:37. | |
indeed the money needs to be focused more at primary care level | :48:37. | :48:43. | |
and community care level. It has proven controversial in the past. | :48:43. | :48:48. | |
Attempts to change how and where the NHS provide services have | :48:48. | :48:53. | |
brought protesters on to the streets across Wales. We will see | :48:53. | :48:57. | |
protests. People are protective of the NHS and protective of their | :48:57. | :49:00. | |
local facilities. People have worked long and hard to have a | :49:00. | :49:03. | |
national health service which they believe is quite precious. He says | :49:03. | :49:07. | |
people need to look at what is being proposed and the Community | :49:07. | :49:11. | |
Health Council is also warning politicians not just to jump on a | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
were test bandwagon. It is a tough call for politicians, we recognise | :49:15. | :49:19. | |
that, they have to look after the views and interests of their | :49:19. | :49:23. | |
constituents. There is a statesman's job to be done. One of | :49:23. | :49:27. | |
the strengths of, particularly in South Wales of the proposals, we | :49:27. | :49:32. | |
are looking at things on a more regional basis. Sometimes that | :49:32. | :49:36. | |
means compromises locally or difficult decisions locally. We | :49:36. | :49:42. | |
think there is a real call for strong political leadership, and | :49:42. | :49:46. | |
strong statesman-like behaviour from our politicians. The Community | :49:46. | :49:50. | |
Health Councils say the re- organisation plans have been led by | :49:50. | :49:52. | |
clinicians and also that communities have been widely | :49:52. | :49:56. | |
consulted. There are still some tough decisions to be made. The | :49:56. | :50:00. | |
patients body will go into negotiation with NHS managers. If | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
they can't reach agreement, the Community Health Councils have the | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
right to refer the decision to the Health Minister, Lesley Griffiths. | :50:07. | :50:11. | |
Our aim is to work with health boards to make sure we can resolve | :50:11. | :50:16. | |
issues locally and on a regional basis. We would prefer not to have | :50:16. | :50:21. | |
to push decisions up to the minister. If we have to, we will | :50:21. | :50:24. | |
have to. Even though Lesley Griffiths has, for a long time in | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
this process, tried to keep her distance from what is going on, | :50:28. | :50:31. | |
keep her distance from all the arguments, ultimately, it might be | :50:31. | :50:37. | |
her that has to make the final call about what shape the NHS should be. | :50:37. | :50:40. | |
Voters regularly say the NHS is a top priority when they go to the | :50:40. | :50:45. | |
polls. Many of the hospitals affect ready in key constituencies, that | :50:45. | :50:50. | |
makes any major reform not just a health issue, but a political one. | :50:50. | :50:56. | |
Well, Nia Griffith, in West Wales I have seen pictures of you wearing a | :50:56. | :50:59. | |
campaign T-shirt outside the Assembly campaigning against | :50:59. | :51:06. | |
changes particularly in West Wales in your constituencies. Do you take | :51:06. | :51:15. | |
on -- constituency do you take on board what was being said? It's | :51:15. | :51:18. | |
important in the consultation part of the process local politician | :51:18. | :51:23. | |
also speak up strongly for their local area. That is part of a | :51:23. | :51:32. | |
consultation process and absolutely rightly so. You no, -- now, Hywel | :51:32. | :51:36. | |
Dda are publishing plans but the board has not reported. We don't | :51:36. | :51:40. | |
know what will happen in the rest of South Wales. The difficulty now | :51:40. | :51:46. | |
is, whatever is decided by Hywel Dda, if it does have a knock-on | :51:46. | :51:50. | |
effect on, for example, Morrison Hospital we need see what the plans | :51:50. | :51:53. | |
are in South Wales, what the plans are, for example, about taking | :51:53. | :52:00. | |
services from Neath Port Talbot Hospital to Morrison. We need see | :52:00. | :52:04. | |
if the Hywel Dda proposals will have any additional work for the | :52:04. | :52:09. | |
Welsh ambulance service. If that is the case, again if there is an | :52:09. | :52:13. | |
initial resource requirement for the ambulance service, then that | :52:13. | :52:20. | |
become as decision above and beyond just hd. When all those pieces of | :52:20. | :52:24. | |
the -- Hywel Dda. When all those pieces of the jigsaw are available | :52:24. | :52:29. | |
the minister will have to fit those together because it's above and | :52:29. | :52:35. | |
beyond what Hywel Dda can do in it is own area. Likewise with Betsi | :52:35. | :52:44. | |
Cadwaladr if that has implications for health boards. There is a | :52:44. | :52:47. | |
political implication, isn't there, to any changes in your | :52:47. | :52:52. | |
constituency? You have an election coming up, people might decide to | :52:52. | :52:58. | |
vote against Labour if services in your area are changed, particularly | :52:58. | :53:02. | |
the Accident & Emergency service there? It will be a difficult time | :53:02. | :53:06. | |
for the minister. She will have to weigh up all the different | :53:06. | :53:08. | |
possibilities. As far as we are concerned, we have the situation | :53:09. | :53:14. | |
that we are the largest area of population, we are concentrated in | :53:14. | :53:18. | |
one corner of the Hywel Dda area. If we were in the middle of the | :53:18. | :53:23. | |
Hywel Dda area everything would be simpler. We need to look at | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
imaginative ways in which things can be funded. We need to ask the | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
questions as well about what sort of future do we want for our | :53:30. | :53:35. | |
medical school in Swansea? Do we want lots of excellent places where | :53:35. | :53:39. | |
students can train to get a home- grown population of doctors which | :53:39. | :53:44. | |
will help us to staff hospitals better. Nick Ramsay, medical | :53:44. | :53:50. | |
professionals particularly saying that the NHS needs changing. Is | :53:50. | :53:53. | |
that something your party accepts? Reorganisation is necessary? No-one | :53:53. | :53:57. | |
denies that the NHS has to change. Anyone who says something has to | :53:57. | :54:02. | |
stay exactly as it is year after year is kidding themselves. The | :54:02. | :54:07. | |
real problem here, I commend the approach of Nia Griffith for | :54:07. | :54:12. | |
standing up for her constituents. The Welsh Labour government have | :54:12. | :54:18. | |
taken money from the health service. The health boards are in the red. | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
They are being forced through financial pressures to do this. | :54:21. | :54:26. | |
They need to go back to the drawing board. That will not happen, is it? | :54:26. | :54:29. | |
The nearer we get to an election the government will want this | :54:29. | :54:33. | |
sorted out so it doesn't have an impact come election time? People | :54:33. | :54:36. | |
want hospitals that are local and able to provide the services they | :54:36. | :54:39. | |
want. I don't think they are too concerned about any problems that | :54:39. | :54:47. | |
the Labour Party has with imminent elections. In south-east Wales in | :54:47. | :54:51. | |
Gwent there haven't been problems. The proposals are pretty accepted. | :54:51. | :54:56. | |
There is a way it can be done properly. Putting forward a | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
bullying, one size fits all this is what we say your health service is | :55:00. | :55:05. | |
going to look like, will not work. They need to reconsider and listen | :55:05. | :55:11. | |
more to MPs like Nia Griffith. Health Minister said it will be the | :55:11. | :55:21. | |
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health boards that make the decisions. Do you feel with the | :55:22. | :55:25. | |
potential removal of Accident & Emergency that would be a | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
downgrading of service? I travel up every week to Westminster. I have | :55:28. | :55:33. | |
to tell people in Wales at least we have a government totally committed | :55:33. | :55:37. | |
to the NHS. In England it's worse. You see the headlines about | :55:37. | :55:40. | |
staffing levels in hospitals in England. That is the first and | :55:40. | :55:46. | |
foremost thing to say. Secondly, of course any -- there is worry that | :55:46. | :55:49. | |
something will be downgraded. We want to see the best. Until we have | :55:49. | :55:52. | |
what comes forward on Tuesday, it's difficult to comment. We will leave | :55:52. | :56:00. | |
it there for now. Thank you. Let's talk about UK government proposals | :56:00. | :56:05. | |
to change the way the pub industry is run. The government announced | :56:05. | :56:08. | |
plans for an independent adjudicator to help struggling | :56:08. | :56:15. | |
landlords. One man who welcomed those changes is the Labour MP Ian | :56:15. | :56:18. | |
Lucas. Thank you for joining us this afternoon. This morning, I | :56:18. | :56:25. | |
think it still is. Early for a drink in the pub. Tell us, why do | :56:25. | :56:28. | |
you consider so many landlords are struggling as this move suggests? | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
It's been a very, very difficult decade for pubs. The arrangements | :56:32. | :56:38. | |
that have been in place for their regulation have really not served | :56:38. | :56:43. | |
either the brewing industry as a whole or our high streets or | :56:43. | :56:47. | |
publicans. The pressure of the recession has also imposed | :56:47. | :56:52. | |
additional burdens, but there are individual cases of pubs doing well. | :56:52. | :56:57. | |
We had a regulatory regime to date that undermined rather than | :56:57. | :57:02. | |
promoted pubs in our constituencies. I'm not sure if you will be able to | :57:03. | :57:09. | |
hear me. Your ear piece has fallen out much I had will come to Nick | :57:09. | :57:14. | |
Ramsay. Nick, what do you make of the changes proposed by Vince Cable | :57:14. | :57:21. | |
this week, good news for pubs? Lucas has done good work on this, I | :57:21. | :57:24. | |
have been doing something similar in the Assembly. Pubs are different | :57:24. | :57:29. | |
to other businesses. There is no way that if people go into a pub | :57:29. | :57:33. | |
and buying a pint of ale that should be treated in the same way | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
as buying cheep alcohol in a supermarket. This is a good step. | :57:36. | :57:40. | |
It will not be easy. Until we get round this problem, particularly in | :57:40. | :57:45. | |
rural areas, of pubs closing we will not solve the problem at the | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
heart of many of our communities. Can you hear us now? Yes. Sorry | :57:49. | :57:55. | |
about that. Not your fault at all. The adjudicator idea has been put | :57:55. | :57:58. | |
in place by the coalition government, are you disappointed it | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
wasn't a Labour government able to put these in place? The proposals | :58:02. | :58:07. | |
were put forward just before we left office. I am disappointed they | :58:07. | :58:12. | |
weren't taken forward at that time. There is great pressure on | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
governments not to regulate. The step take thn week, this government | :58:16. | :58:20. | |
was also reluctant, was to take the step to regulate, we had an | :58:20. | :58:27. | |
unbalanced system that the free market had provided where pubs were | :58:27. | :58:31. | |
being forced out of business. It's a big step for the government to | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
take to regulate much we were reluctant to d that. This | :58:35. | :58:45. | |
government was reluctant to do that. I'm pleased to do -- say that we | :58:45. | :58:51. | |
have done that now. We want to work within our communities to offer | :58:51. | :58:55. | |
goot services to constituents and customers and prosper as businesses | :58:55. | :59:00. | |
providing more work both in the pubs themselves, but also in a town | :59:00. | :59:05. | |
like Wrexham, which has a brewing condition swrerks micro breweries | :59:05. | :59:10. | |
developing. We want to create jobs there. We need to focus down in | :59:10. | :59:15. | |
local communities and develop the brewing industry again as a | :59:15. | :59:19. | |
business. There is a role for pub codes, isn't there? If somebody | :59:19. | :59:23. | |
wants to buy their own pub they need enormous capital, which they | :59:23. | :59:27. | |
may not necessarily have, the breweries can put them in business | :59:27. | :59:32. | |
in terms of giving them a building, do you accept with this regulation | :59:32. | :59:36. | |
that the pub codes have a role toll play? They have a role to play. We | :59:36. | :59:40. | |
want it to be a fair role. That is where the regulator comes in, to | :59:40. | :59:48. | |
see the conditions imposed by pub codes are fair, not just to the pub | :59:48. | :59:54. | |
cos but the tenants who operate. We do need capital investment, but we | :59:54. | :59:58. | |
need a balance -- balanced situation. I would urge everybody | :59:58. | :00:05. | |
who is interested in pubs, whether they be publicans, customers, pub | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
co's to get involved in this process so we get the framework | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
right. Thank you very much for joining us. Sorry about the minor | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
technical difficulty there. Nick Ramsay, he said he wanted people | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
interested in pubs to get involved. I'm sure you are interested in | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
pubs? I have had the odd interest over years. Do you feel perhaps the | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
balance has shifted against the pub co's and the breweries in this | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
instance and landlords will prosper if they are part of a pub co's? | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
hope they can benefit. Over the 10 years with larger companies | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
developing, if you want capital investment in a pub it is great. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
Some of the companies were taking tenants through as quickly as | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
possible, getting as much rent as they could, at the end of the day | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
the pub was closing anyway. I hope the government's move here will | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
change that. In my own local pub, where I live, that's got new | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
tenants now. They are doing well. They have managed to buy out part | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
of the bar area. There are ways where a large company can own a pub, | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
but the tenants can be given far more control over the day-to-day | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
running of that. When that happens the situation is a lot better. | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Griffith, pubs particularly in town centres, they take up a lot of | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
space, lots of buildings, if pubs are closing, like when shops close, | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
they can be a blight on a town centre, can't they, and give the | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
wrong impression. Do you think the decision taken by Vince Cable this | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
week can, on an economic level, support pubs in local areas? It's | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
very important of course because they are part of the local fabric. | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
People come into towns for lots of different reasons. An opportunity | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
to meet in a pub is very important. My worry is that the government | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
will back slide again. They only brought forward the consultation | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
this week because we forced the vote on it. You didn't take any | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
action, did you, as Ian Lucas acknowledged there, when you were | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
in government? We were set fo do so at the point of the election in | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
2010. The problem has been that the change of government let it drop. | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
I'm worried now that they don't take this through fully. We are | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
asking for people not to be ed to the beer from one particular | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
brewery, so they can bring in guest beers and have a choice and use the | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
breweries in their areas. What is important is what comes out of this | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
consultation, yes, indeed, please everybody contribute to it, what | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
worries me more is that the government will delay on this and | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
we will see more pub closures. The other thing we need is more | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
stimulus for the economy. If people don't have the money to spend, | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
there is no way pub ks thrive. would look at the tax on alcohol | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
and beer in pubs. It's different buying beer there to buying it in | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
the supermarket. There are other things beyond this great first move | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
that could be done. Will you be contributing to this consultation? | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
There are other people in it as well. There is a limit to my | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
abilities. Yeah, we work with CAMERA and Drink Aware, it's a | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
popular group. We will do what we can to make sure we get the best | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
possible deal for our communities. You could have them as community | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
centres, or if there isn't a Post Office, you could have a facility | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
like. That a lot can be done, but this is a great first move. | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
Time now for a quick look back at some of the political stories of | :03:50. | :04:00. | |
:04:00. | :04:00. | ||
the week in 60 seconds. Welsh Secretary David Jones welcomed news | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
that the electrification of the London to Cardiff rail line would | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
be completed by 2017 with the extension to Swansea finished a | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
year later. Updating could take until 2024. Opposition parties | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
asked why a back to work scheme faced being a wound up a year early. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
The Welsh government wants to revoke �23 million of European | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
funding after a review found it was under-performing. Opponents of a | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
seven barrage told MPs that its impact on wildlife could be | :04:33. | :04:43. | |
:04:43. | :04:47. | ||
devastating. The angling Trust said it would be 24/7 mincers. Ahead of | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
the first, First Minister's Questions, the Plaid Cymru leader | :04:54. | :05:04. | |
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said it was a pantomime show. Oh no she didn't. Oh, yes she did. Nick | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
Ramsay - I didn't like that link. What did you make of what Leanne | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Wood had to say about First Minister's Questions? In terms of | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
the electrification? Of it being an empty pantomime, the set up of it | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
these days, is it working? think... I think it has worked in | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
the past. I think it was more successful under Rhodri Morgan he | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
tried to answer the questions. Too often, Carwyn Jones is trying to | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
evade answers or trying to be clever answers. We don't want. That | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
we are there to represent our constituents. We want an answer to | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
a question. Even if it's an an answer which some people might | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
think it's unpalatable, we have to have honesty in the Chamber. Have | :05:52. | :06:01. | |
you got on -- a view on how it differs from the Commons Ours is | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
fiesty and jostling. In the Assembly there is a calmer | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
atmosphere that allows for longer, more detailed answers and let's | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
people hear them, which is more you can sometimes have in the House of | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
Commons. We don't havemics, you don't hear the background noise. | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Electrification, we heard from David Jones, plans put in place to | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
suggest it is going to happen. You make the journey regularly. You | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
welcome his announcement last week, I'm sure? I welcome the | :06:37. | :06:40. |