05/07/2016 am.pm

Hello again. Welcome to the programme and our weekly coverage of

questions to the First Minister. AMs are here for the recession to ask

Carwyn Jones about help for farmers and GP facilities in Wales. You can

follow all the latest on our Twitter feed and find us at wales politics.

Let us cross to the chamber for questions for the First Minister. I

call the National Assembly to order and the first item on the agenda is

questions to the First Minister and the first question is for Paul

Davies. What is the Welsh Government doing to support farmers and

Pembrokeshire? The Welsh Government is working to support the industry

so that it becomes more profitable, sustainable, resilient and ensuring

that farmers make a profit ultimately. Thank you, the decision

to axe of the European Union is going to have a major impact on the

agricultural industry and it is important that governments work

together to support our farmers in the future, but there is huge

concern among farmers and Pembrokeshire about the possibility

of introducing a nitrate vulnerable zone, because of a decision taken by

people to leave the European Union can you tell us where this leaves

the consultation that your government intended to introduce on

these films and whether these plans are to proceed? That is ongoing,

bearing in mind that the environmental law which has been

transposed into Welsh law will remain in place although the UK is

to leave the European Union and that will be an issue for the Welsh

Government to decide which laws should be retained ultimately and

which laws would not be retained. Many farmers in Pembrokeshire and

elsewhere in Wales have already diversify it into tourism. Given

this vote taken on the referendum and Paul has already mentioned the

fact that there is so much uncertainty among farmers now, will

the Welsh Government do more to promote tourism and encourage more

farmers to go down that particular route? It is true to say that we

have supported farmers in doing that through schemes such as farming

connect, through the raw role development plan, it is important

that we ensure that all means of making a profit are presented to

farmers in order to ensure that forms a more sustainable. Simon

Thomas. Thank you Presiding Officer, one of our best-known agricultural

produce from the zones is potatoes and Pembrokeshire have PGI status

and the current regime which allows farmers and producers to sell their

produce as something which is unique from a particular area. PGI goes

along with members of of the European Union, does the government

have any plans or intention to introduce something similar for

Wales as we exit the European Union? It will be crucially important, it

is uncertain as to what the situation is but if that were to be

lost, it would not only be a blow to Pembrokeshire potatoes but also to

the Lamb export market which is important. One of the things that we

can ensure that we sell, we can give a guarantee to purchasers that the

lamb is from Wales and of the highest quality and the same is true

with potatoes. If we were to lose those statuses, we would have to

ensure that we have equal status in Wales and that buyers could have the

same confidence. Julie Morgan. While the First Minister could choose

information about the Cardiff City deal? We are committed to this. We

have not yet have the response from the UK Government. In terms of them

guaranteeing that the funding element of that deal that comes from

European funds would be honoured by them and that is a direct impact.

One of the key planks of the city deal is the Metro which could

transform transport services in South Wales and the valleys and as

the First Minister has said, a sizeable amount of the project money

has not yet been signed off. What opportunity with the First Minister

have to negotiate directly with Europe about continuation or

obtaining the rest of that money? As things stand, as soon as the Kingdom

leaves the European Union, then axis to that funding will end. I put in

place a team in Brussels to look at negotiating on the behalf of Wales,

in parallel with the UK, but if the European funding is not made up by

the UK Government and clearly that leaves a hole in funding and we will

have to revise the plans that we currently have. Neil McEvoy. Before

I come to a question, I was heckled last week and you called me a

coward. I would suggest that you behave... This is a question. Ask

the question. I will ask the First Minister to behave more like a First

Minister. My question is coming now. My statement remains. I have just

shared a conference on the city deal... Ask your question. I am

asking my question. I have just shared a conference on the city

deal. Ask your question. I think we know by now that you have just

shared something, tell us what it is then ask your question. There were

hundreds of delegates from the food sector, from government, yet there

was only one person from a local business, my question is, why our

local communities, why our local businesses not being included in the

city deal? The small businesses are the backbone of this economy and yet

their voices hardly heard, why is that? If he chaired it, I am not

surprised that few businesses were there. The reality is that

businesses will be a hugely important part of the deal and we

will work with local authorities and businesses to make sure that the

benefits of the deal can be maximised. We heard that the

Metrodome is central to this concept and unfortunately two weeks ago I

think we realise, there is a great golf between areas like Cardiff and

the valleys areas to the north and this was reflected in the voting

pattern. The Metro does give us a chance to integrate the economic

future of these important parts of the South Wales economy. I agree

with that, the concept of the Metro is designed to make it easier for

those who have jobs in Cardiff to travel quickly into Cardiff but also

to attract investment away from the coast and further up the valleys. To

get rid of that perception that our northern valley communities are hard

to reach. That is not true. We know with the road schemes put in place

already, we know that with the Metro scheme, that we would be able to say

to investors that our valley communities are connected to the

wider economy of south-east Wales and therefore it is a community that

should be invested in and we are beginning to see that the fruits of

that are in place. Questions from the party leaders and first of all

this way, the Leader of the Opposition, Leanne Wood. The

Westminster political system is in crisis with skulduggery and

backstabbing in the Conservative and your own party in London and this

has had a major effect on Wales and on our country's future. With the

First Minister be prepared to have a word with Welsh MPs to tell them to

get a grip and do their job, which is to hold the Conservative

government to account and make sure that Wales gets every single penny

of the funds that we were promised in the event of the vote to leave

the European Union? I will not pretend that the Leader of the

Opposition that things are stable, it is therefore all to see. We will

fight for every single penny that Wales is old and I am confident that

all those who represent my party will do the same. I am disappointed

that you are not prepared to show some leadership on this question. If

you were not prepared to have a word with your own MPs, perhaps they are

prepared to listen to this passage from me, voters in our

constituencies want us to be their voice in this difficult time and

they want us to tackle the racism that has arisen in our communities,

they want to get back to work and they want to see us take our country

forward. The last thing they need right now is more division and more

infighting. In the public meeting I did last night, I heard from a young

man whose family has a German background and they are concerned

about their future. They do not know what rights they will have, they are

worried about reports in the press that there's status might well be on

the in negotiations. Many children have been asking questions of their

parents when they are in this situation and parents are finding it

very difficult to answer those questions when so much is unknown. I

hope you can cover this more comprehensively in the urgent

question later, but we need to be clear that EU citizens are net

benefit to Wales, we should say that every single one of them are welcome

here and that they should not have to leave this country if or when

Brexit eventually takes place. First Minister, what reassurances can you

give to people living in Wales from other parts of Europe, that you will

champion them their rights and their families? In a way that gives me the

opportunity to answer that now. I am happy to do that. I have written to

the Home Secretary and said to her, that as far as the Welsh Government

is concerned, we believe that EU citizens living in the UK should

retain the right to do so after the UK withdraws from the EU. She and I

are in the same position on that and I believe it is utterly wrong to use

EU citizens living in the UK as a bargaining chip in negotiations. It

makes it sound as if they are hostages, they are not, they are

welcome in Wales. I thank you for that answer. In a different meeting

that I attended, I heard from a representative of one of the sectors

that will be heavily affected by the Brexit vote. We were told that the

further education and skills sector could lose ?760 million in future

funding if that money is not replaced. If and when that funding

does not materialise, the young people who are most affected will be

those who are furthest away from the employment market. That is just one

sector of Welsh civic society and it shows how important our EU

membership is and the benefits that are there and they should not just

be discarded. Do you agree that those voices from civic society

deserve to be heard when the Brexit terms are negotiated and will you

draw up an official Welsh negotiating position to be agreed by

this National Assembly and sent to the incoming UK Prime Minister. If

you were unable to hold the new Tory leader in Westminster to account for

the promises that were made in the EU referendum campaign, can you tell

us how those apprenticeship places, the training courses, the back to

work schemes that are currently benefiting some of the most

disadvantaged people in some of the most disadvantaged communities in

Wales will be available to them in the future? She is right to point

out the funding gap that would exist and secondly, we have discussed the

issue of what the negotiating stand should be. Firstly, we will explore

every possible avenue of benefit to Wales, secondly I have already asked

the economy secretary to announce measures to protect jobs in ten

economic stability. Yesterday, the role affairs Secretary and I met key

figures from the agriculture and fisheries sectors to discuss the

lament of the decision to leave the European Union, but I have to say

that there is a duty on those who called for the UK to leave the EU to

ensure that the promises they made in terms of funding for Wales are

honoured. I have to say, that the evidence of that now is getting

thinner by the day. The question is where the Welsh public told the

truth before the referendum or is the truth emerging now?

I assure the First Minister is where there is no question of EU citizens

currently living in the United Kingdom being used bargaining chips

because there rights are protected under the 1969 convention? We need

to have clarity. There needs to be a response from the current Home

Secretary in order that people can have assurance that many people that

have lived in the UK for many years will not have the rights of

residents removed. The First Minister has rightly mentioned

prospects for employment in Wales following are leaving the EU and he

will be aware that the Welsh Government is sitting on a decision

in relation to the circuit of wheels. There was a problem over the

size of the guarantee that would be required for funding the project. I

understand that has been reduced to less than 50% of the total. There

does not seem to be a reason why we cannot move swiftly to a decision to

give this guarantee so that this huge job making project can go

ahead. Can't the first research area we have got to? The employment

Secretary will be making an announcement on this next week. I am

delighted to hear that because it is important to all of south-east Wales

and beyond. It is the biggest regeneration project that we have

seen in many years. ?380 million. I do not expect the freshness can

anticipate the Cabinet Secretary's forthcoming and entered but I hope

he will accept from me that it is reported that the Welsh cup and

gives the go-ahead to this project. All this will be taken into

consideration. The economy secretary will be making an announcement next

week on the progress of the scheme. First Minister, you earlier alluded

to the fact that you and the Cabinet Secretary for brutal fears met with

farming union 's yesterday. In questions to weeks ago the Cabinet

Secretary said she did not believe that farmers were perhaps the best

people to run businesses. Do you believe that is the case as Jamaat

that is not what she said. -- believe that is the case? That is

not what she said. As far as farming is concerned, there is no such thing

as British agricultural policy, it is entirely devolved, there are

opportunities for farming to work with us, and what support they may

want in the future, although that depends on money being made

available from the UK Government. In terms of fisheries what should be

done with Welsh territorial waters in terms of who should be able to

fish in them and whether Welsh bolts wanted us to negotiate with other

administrations. This quarter was about it quote from the record of

proceedings and I do note that you did not distance yourself from that.

If I could also ask a question on the U released on the day of the

referendum of 23rd of June relation to the agreement with the Liberal

Democrats and in particular the assertion made by Kirsty Williams

that the implications had significant budget implications over

the nine education commitments that were made between you and the

Liberal Democrats. What is the totality of the commitment that you

have given an Financial Times to meet the commitment that you made to

the Liberal Democrats that brought them into Government? That is a

reasonable question. The words that were quartered in the correspondence

see significant budget implications. Whenever there is European funding

for a project, that project has to be looked at carefully when that

European funding comes to an end. I would have thought that was obvious.

Unless that money is made up by the UK Government has promised then it

is clear in the future that some schemes will not be able to be

funded in the bay but we would hope. He is very keen on quotations this

afternoon. But the offer some to him. 2nd of March, Andrew RT Davies,

I can guarantee that money would be be distributed around the UK,

otherwise it would be failing in its remit to deliver help and support to

the nation, he means the UK by that. We cannot continue with operation

fear driving people into the ballot box because you are scared of them

voting one way. June 14, campaigners for a Leave Vought has said money

from Brussels will be the teens by a UK Government in the event Brexit.

Andrew RT Davies says today's announcement is welcome and further

evidence that Wales would be better off outside the European Union. We

now know that funding for each and every part of the UK including Wales

would be safe if we vote to leave. June 21, Wales could be half ?1

billion per year better off if the UK courts to leave the European

Union on Thursday. Senior Government ministers have already pledged to

maintain existing EU funding if we vote to leave and additional

funding, a Barnett Formula share that Wales could receive a free

leave the EU. And today he told the media it was not about money, it was

about outcomes. The question for him as this, does he believe that every

single penny that has been lost to Wales should be made up by the UK

Government? Does he stand by his quotations or his sea running away

from them this morning? It is remarkable that you have wasted so

much of your time, but I am happy you are using my quotation because

you have got so little to say. I stand by my quotations and I put

them on the record. I am happy to debate with you any time, any place,

on the benefits as I say then that people endorsed at the ballot box on

June 23. I find it amusing after two clear questions, one to distance

yourself from the Cabinet Secretary who has ridiculed the business

acumen of farmers, and then over the deal struck with the Liberal

Democrats to bring them into Government that in their own words

has budgeted locations for your Government. I do not think these are

like Landis questions. In the campaign you did say that for every

new budget commitment that was made by your Government there would have

two big cuts elsewhere. Nine weeks after the election it is not an

reasonable for the leader of the Conservatives in the assembly to us

to the question, you have committed this money to the Liberal Democrats

commitments, where are you getting that money from? It is not to do

with the Brexit vote, it is a commitment you made prior to the

Brexit fought because these discussions were prior to the Brexit

sport. Where is the money coming from to meet the significant natural

commitments? Could we have a simple and straightforward answer all that

you do not know? Can I use a Belfast fleas? He is living in a world of

squeaky white mice. If he thinks he can get away from the fact that he

has failed the people of Wales by saying he will not fight for every

penny, he had the opportunity to declare as position, he feels to do

it. He is right to point that there will be budget difficulties. That is

true because we will be losing EU money, ?650 million per year is

going to be lost to our budget as a result of Brexit. But all that money

is made that as he promised, as he promised three times, by the UK

governments, that will help. The question for him as this, will he

stand by the people of Wales or Bobby run away from the mess that he

has created Mr Mark -- created? Will you make a statement on GP

facilities? A number of new primary care facilities have been opened

across north Wales. Buildings of the highest quality for GPs. There is a

critical situation in my constituency and I want to draw your

attention to the terrible problem that exists there and ask you to

intervene. This has been going on for about ten years. They have over

5000 patients in the surgery. The building is completely

inappropriate. There is not enough space. Patient confidentiality is

under threat. It is not possible to expand the building. Ten years ago

the health board said that improvements to the surgery was a

priority but the facilities have not improved at all. Do you believe this

dragging feet is acceptable? Because the health board is in the special

measures will you intervene in order to move things forward urgently? The

member is right on the situation. There are huge pressures there. I

understand that the surgery is discussing this in great detail with

the health board. The problem has to be resolved as soon as possible, I

understand that. There would have to be an application from the surgery

in the first instance, but to do that it would have to be discussed

with the health board in order to ensure that that application was the

right one, but I know that the health board understands the

situation that they need to secure more space for the surgery

ultimately. I understand that was a shop at one time. But now that 5000

people are served there, only 1000 at the outset, so clearly the

problem needs to be resolved as quickly as possible. The loss of

dozens of community beds, NHS staff told me that new community beds

would take pressure off general hospitals and enable the health

board to use its resources more efficiently. How do you respond to

the statement by GPs in the assembly to weeks ago that community beds

adds to the breadth of things a GP can do and that local care in a GP

unit in community hospitals enabling them to then discharged people home

prevents the need to put people into general hospitals and assist

secondary and primary care? This does happen in many parts of Wales,

particularly parts of brutal wheels. While it is important that each

health board considers the right model for its area. -- parts of

brutal Wales. We need to make sure that people get the right support.

What is the Welsh Government is doing to support library services in

mid and West Wales? We will supply grant funding for three new

libraries in mid and West Wales. I do not or if the First Minister is

aware that a County Council plans to have ?50,000 in cats to the library

budgets between now and 2019 which would involve cutting half of the

library service and the possible closure of 11 branch libraries? Will

he join me in regretting these priorities because libraries must be

regarded as a vitally important part of the wider education service in

this country. It is a matter for local authorities regarding library

services but one of the libraries that will receive money will receive

money in order to modernise but it is for local authorities to decide

how they modernise services? Library services are a valued community

asset, so much so that in Newport local communities are working with

the County Council to keep libraries open as a community managed resource

in the face of Torre Stella C cuts. Would he join me in thanking those

volunteers for their efforts and in particular to thank me in those

areas that need extra support? Yes I would join the member in thanking

those people. I have seen an example where volunteers are running the

library and I know that the library service, one of the stories I heard

is that people are now more likely to use the library. One -- some

people thought the library had closed years ago. Also to ensure

that knowledge about the library was more widespread in the community.

Julien Quesne the leak that we commemorate the 100th anniversary of

the Battle of the Somme it is important that we recognise the

important role that archive plays. The archive is currently being

restored. Valuable documents have unfortunate

thing is visited upon them. Join with me in welcoming the restoration

of this important cultural archive and Wales and outline what your

Government is doing to help other valuable archives in Wales to be

restored and kept for the future of the nation? The example that the

member Dave has been helped by funding from the Welsh Government.

Another example is the relocation of Gwent archives. A brand-new

building. A hugely important resource and one that is accessible.

Will the First Minister make a statement on proposed housing

development? We continue to invest in social housing and that will be

an important element of 20,000 affordable homes in this term and we

are supporting both local authorities and housing associations

to meet that target. I believe in the importance of social housing,

many of my constituents are on the waiting list and I want to stress

the importance of ending the right to buy so that we can begin

building. Can some of the funding currently given to housing

associations be given to support council house building? I am keen to

avoid this be seen as a competition. We want to see more ambition from

local authorities when it comes to house building, it is difficult

because local authorities were prevented from house-building but we

are working with both local authorities and housing associations

to develop a delivery plan. Beth and Jenkins. A cap on housing benefit at

local housing allowance rates will apply from April 2018 bid only to

tenancies signed after April 2016 and this reform is better intended

to align the roles in the private and social rented sectors but it

will lead to prospective tenants experiencing further issues of

affordability if they are in receipt of benefits or require further

welfare support. In light of the UK Government's decision, what plans

does the Welsh Government have to ensure their continued provision of

supported housing to some of the most honourable people in society?

We want to ensure that those who are most fundable do not suffer as a

result of decisions taken elsewhere and I know the minister is actively

looking at the current situation in order to mitigate any empath on the

most fungible. Susie Davis. While we all agree that more houses are

needed, my constituents in some communities are not persuaded that

their plans reflect the need for provision for the right houses in

the right places to reflect the needs of people during different

times in their lives. Can you confirm that in building Council

houses local authorities will be bound to give strong due regard to

the concerns of local residents about locations and secondly, what

are you doing at the moment to help councils look forward to providing

more homes for older people when they are planning council

house-building in the future? Councils of course will be planning

according to the demographic change. For many decades houses were built

on the basis that they are going to house families. More people are on

their own and have been hit hard by the bedroom tax particularly in

rural Wales. It is hard to find one bedroom accommodation. Councils have

their own local development plan and they must abide by that plan as any

developer would. During questions to the Cabinet Secretary last month I

was able to highlight a report from Sheffield Hallam university which

identified the disproportionate effect benefit cuts had on per

communities, particularly concerning local housing benefits. Another

proposal under the new arrangements is to raise the threshold under

which payment is made on the shared accommodation rate from 25 years of

age to 35 years of age, effectively making it more difficult if not

impossible for younger people to afford social housing. Can I urge

the First Minister in any discussions with the UK Government

to caution against this change which is already resulting in somebody's

questioning if they can continue to provide social housing for that age

group? It is part of the theme, were the younger you are, the more you

have to pay, for housing benefit, access housing, getting your foot on

the mortgage ladder, there has never been a more difficult time. I had it

easy and so did my parents but now it is more difficult. We have to

make a point that more needs to be done to help young people to get

into accommodation, not discriminating against them because

of their age, the same as the minimum wage. Question six, Hannah

blinding. We are in regular dialogue with the companies and the economy

secretary that with Airbus last Friday and we will be ready to key

companies in Wales including the anchor comedies with a view to

holding a forum focusing on issues raised. Thank you, many of my

constituencies are employed in large agencies and the vote to leave the

EU has created uncertainty for them and also the hundreds employed via

the supply chain. Can the First Minister in sure that the workforce

and their families will have their livelihood fought for? I can give

that absolutely. I know how important Airbuses in Wales. I know

particularly with the thousands that are employed there, that they will

be uncertain about the future. They are waiting to see what the outcome

of the negotiations will be, particularly over access to the

single market. If we do not get that, there are immense difficulties

and we will work hard to ensure that companies like Airbus continue to

benefit from axis to a market of 500 million people. Following on, has

the Welsh Government had an opportunity to make an initial

analysis of the relative merits of the various rather bewildering array

of Brexit options that have been mentioned like Norway, Switzerland,

Canada and Singapore, bizarrely, and particularly because of the

importance of preservation of axis to the single market, has he come to

the conclusion, as many in the business community have that it

properly looks like the least worst option? That would ensure access to

the single market and that is currently the only model on the

table, the answer must be yes, that would involve free movement of

people and we know that many people voted on that issue, above the issue

of jobs in the referendum. The difficulty is, at this moment in

time, there is no model being proposed that would allow axis to

the single market without there being free movement of people.

Switzerland have not been able to do it, it is simply the model. The

reality is that the UK Government has no real idea of what kind of

model might work in the future which shows the uncertainty of the times

we are living in which is why we want to provide as much certainty as

we can and secondly, why it needs to be provided as soon as possible at

UK level. I am only too well aware of the valuable importance of

Airbus, 6000 jobs they provide and I know in a statement after the

referendum result, they said that they are looking to constructively

work with the UK Government to provide support for their workers

and indeed to carry on with their operations here. How will you as

First Minister in your government provides the insurance that they

probably need right now? Have you visited Airbus in order to have

those senior management level talks so that they receive that assurance

that he will be working hard to support them? I met with the

President of the company the week of the referendum. I have regular

meetings with Airbus -- Airbus to listen to their concerns, all

manufacturers are saying to me that they are concerned about axis to the

single market. They are European operations and if the UK is outside

of the market, there are consequences for investment. If you

are an international company, you are more likely to invest inside

cider market than outside it, that is why it is hugely important that

we continue to have axis to the single market, tariff free, I cannot

imagine what our Welsh lamb farmers it's

a 15% tariff is imposed on the land they produce that is sold in the

European market, and of course stealer as well, whether tariffs

would be higher, it is by glee important, regardless of the other

issues, bearing in mind the way people voted, that axis to the

single market without tariffs remains. With the First Minister

confirm, and I am not implying in any way that you were involved, that

during the 1970s, France and Britain Co-op are to to build Concorde. I

believe there was an agreement. Well before we became members of the EU.

The inference of this is of course that matters at Airbus will continue

unabated and that this debate now is another example of scaremongering

which we had, both before Brexit and is carrying on after Brexit. I had

nothing to do with Concorde, its maiden flight occurred when I was

two! Concorde was an example of UK and French corporation that was a

failure. It did not work, it never worked on a commercial basis. He has

to bear in mind that the UK was desperate to join the Common Market

in 1973, desperate to join because the UK economy was in a weak state.

This idea that the UK was forced against its will, is untrue, it was

desperate to join. Of course there will be corporation -- cooperation,

but we are apart at the moment of a market of 500 million people and if

we have to pay a price to enter that market, then our manufacturers will

pay a press to enter the market and there will be a price in terms of

jobs and that is the last thing anyone wants to see. When the First

Minister met a statement on European regulations relating to air

pollution posed Brexit? EU tractors have driven much of that legislation

and we will look at these on a case-by-case basis. Local air

quality management is driven by the environment act 1995. Thank you.

European environmental protections must not be sacrificed, there is no

doubt that we cannot afford a future UK Government to weaken these

limits. While the regulations remain outside the EU we will lose the

vital in forces that EU law provided. Air pollution and climate

change are serious issues, not just for this generation but for future

generations. Following the referendum result, will the Welsh

Government do all I can to enshrine these protections and ensure that

these rules are enforced? What has already transposed into law will

remain in Welsh law. It is a matter for the Welsh Government and

assembly to decide which laws should remain but it is worth pointing out

that it has been European incentives that have enabled the UK to clean up

its act. I grew up in Bridgend were the river ran different colours

according to what was thrown into it. It would be red, green, black

and it does not happen now. You can see the bottom of it now. There is

the salmon run, that would have been unthinkable 30 years ago. Much of

that drive has come from Europe in order to make sure that they caught

up with the rest. I want to make sure we do not lose the drive that

has existed for the past 30 years. Both Conservative and Labour

governments have recognised the need to legislate to improve air quality

by introducing measures to control and reduce pollution. Many of these

measures were passed before we joined the European Union, for

example, the clean air act of 1956 and 1968, does the First Minister

agree, it is inconceivable that any future UK Government will take

action to reverse any current EU regulation in place to regulate air

quality in Wales? I do not think it is inconceivable after what I heard

about fracking, I do not believe that. When the clean air act came

in, people were dropping dead in London because of toxic fog. There

was not much choice other than to introduce the legislation. In the

1980s, there was a river in Yorkshire that would catch fire if

you through a match into it. Our air quality was poor, all that has

improved and we have been driven in that direction by the European

Union, otherwise we would not have done it ourselves and I intend to

make sure that the environment that the people in Wales enjoy and have

come to deserve will remain that way in the future. I will not go back to

the days when I was young when there were tips everywhere and people

expected things would remain that way, not so, we are a country now

were we can be proud of our environment. Thank you. First

Minister, given that the pollution created by shipping is 260 times

that produced by all the cars in the world and that action is required on

a global level instead of a continental one, what discussions

has the First Minister had with the International Maritime Organisation

and others in an effort to address the global air pollution problem.

We are hugely reliant on exports, the last thing we want to do is

reduce our ability to export. Our strategy reflect that.

Will the First Minister outlined the risks to the Welsh economy if the UK

Government does not guarantee every penny of funding which the EU

currently provides Wales? ?650 million per annum would be lost in

terms of Government spending including ?260 million in farm

subsidy. Since 2007 EU projects have created 11,900 enterprises and

37,000 jobs. This EU funding has helped 72,700 people. 72,700 people

into work, helped more than 29,000 people gain qualifications and has

funded 56,000 people into further running since 2007. Under the

current 1.8 billion EU supporters programme 700 million of EU

structure funding has been committed and that is just 40% of the total

allocation for the 2014-2020 period, can the first must state what

actions the First Minister -- the Welsh Government can take to ensure

that the levers pledge that Welsh funding will not be affected is

kept, unlike the other broken promises that we have heard? The

difficulty is that those who have advocated some of these pledges have

run our way. They have thrown a brick through a window and run away.

I expect some of those people who have made those pledges only be in

Government in the next few months to keep to those pledges. That was a

vote that has made to the people of Wales and in other countries and

regions of England. I cannot think of anything that would bring

politics more into disrepute if politicians say on the one hand

every single penny would be guaranteed and then turn around and

see if we did not mean that. We did not been that. That would mean a

breach of the most fundamental pledge made to the people of Wales

and the people of Wales will hold both people to account.

I am pleased that the Government has given a commitment to develop a

business plan on the Britannia Bridge. We are expecting

developments soon. That is a project that we would have expected to meet

a bid for European funding for as a contribution towards its cost

because of the importance of the a 55 as part of the European transport

network. May I ask the first blister what his view is on the possibility

of losing that source of funding? -- ask the First Minister. Will he give

a commitment to put pressure on the UK Government to ensure that funding

is provided perhaps as part of some plan for the Welsh economy?

The Marshall plan funding came from the United States that they

understand the point you are making. Every penny lost should be made up

by those who promised that that would be the case, that that would

happen. We have heard from those who argued that we should leave the

European Union. They said there would be tonnes of money available.

Let us see where that money is for Wales and to ensure that the people

of Wales can decide how that money is spent. But of course all we have

heard this people withdrawing from that pledge. We are strongly of the

view that we should fight for Wales and not fight against Wales and that

is what we have heard in this chamber from some people today.

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