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Good afternoon and a very warm welcome to a new programme | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
covering questions to the First Minister. | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
AMs are back in Cardiff Bay after their Christmas break | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Today we can expect questions on economic growth, energy | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
and the interests of children and young people. | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
We're also on Twitter - @walespolitics, | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
where you can follow the latest developments as they happen. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Well, business in the Siambr is already underway | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
so let's see today's questions to the First Minister. | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
I call the National Assembly to order and may I begin by wishing you | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
all a very happy New Year and we will move onto our first item, | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
questions to First Minister. Will the First Minister outline his | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
proposals for supporting economic growth during 2017 in South Wales | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
West? The priorities include supporting businesses to grow, | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
investing in high quality infrastructure and improving | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
conditions for business. Steel-making is a critical element | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
of the economy in South Wales West and is the heart of the economy in | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
Aberavon. As the challenges have eased, they have not gone away. I | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
applaud the Welsh government in honouring its commitment in | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
supporting the industry with the financial support announced in | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
December. I am dismayed that the UK Government has done nothing. Before | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
Christmas, I met with the Chief Executive Officer of Tata Steel UK | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
and he made it quite clear that the joint venture was still on the | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
agenda even if the deal is accepted by the trade unions at the end of | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
this month. With consolidation of the industry and the pension | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
problems as well, what discussions will you be having with Tata to | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
ensure that Welsh steelworkers have a more secure future? Any support we | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
provide will be conditional on economic activity in Wales. Our | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
financial support will be subject to Tata agreeing to legally binding | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
conditions and no funding will be drawn down by Tata unless those | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
conditions are agreed. It is important that workers understand | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
that the money that has been made available or will be made available | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
to Tata is conditional. We want to ensure that the money ensures that | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
we keep those jobs in Wales. Importantly, we have two blast | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
furnaces. Suzy Davies. Assembly Members finally managed to get a | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
formal meeting with chief executives and council leaders to discuss the | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
Swansea Bay city region and it is clear that they see the investment | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
in transport as a key driver for the economic prospects of the region. Do | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
you think that Wales' second city, at the heart of this regional | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
expansion, is ambitious enough to look simply beyond buses, which was | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
recently suggested by Stuart Cole? I think that transport solutions can | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
work in any number of different forms of transport. What is | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
important is that the city deal is approved and receives funding from | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
the UK Government. Bethan Jenkins. First Minister, in the past you have | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
recognised the importance of pensions in the economy when I have | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
raised issues with regards to Christian and the campaign that many | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
of us were involved in in relation to the South Wales West economy and | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
if those pensions were threatened in some way, how that would affect the | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
economy. I am wondering if we could have a discussion on the Tata | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
pension situation because far be it from us to be criticised for butting | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
out of this debate, I think it is integral that politicians are part | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
of this debate so that we can lead on this agenda and I think it is | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
important therefore for us to have a debate on this that we can | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
understand what contingency plans your government will put in place on | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
a number of outcomes that are possible, for example if the deal is | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
accepted or if it is rejected, the Welsh government will have do have a | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
view on that, will it not? I think it's unfortunate you use that as an | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
example because it closed. Unions are looking to represent their | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
members' best interests. That is a matter for them. What is hugely | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
important is that there is an understanding that at this moment in | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
time there is nothing else on the table. If they were genuine | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
alternatives, that is something we would consider further, but that is | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
not the case at the moment so we have do consider that fact, that the | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
UK Government are not prepared to nationalise the industry. Therefore, | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
the only package that is on the table at this moment in time is the | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
package that Tata have placed their for the workers and it is up to the | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
workers and the trade unions to come to their own conclusions regarding | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
the future. First Minister, one of the biggest challenges facing the | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
economy in my region during 2017 continues to be poor infrastructure. | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
A thriving economy is dependent upon good transport links. With the rail | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
network and electrification, businesses in South Wales West are | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
at the mercy of the traffic flows on the M4. What plans does your | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
government have to reduce congestion on the M4 over the coming months? We | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
want to see the UK Government making good on its commitment to Elektra | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
fibre line between Cardiff Central and West Wales. They have not given | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
a date on that. The original plan was to Elektra five from Cardiff to | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
Bridgend and then to Swansea. But at the moment there is no date for the | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
electrification of the line. We need to have that date so we can proceed | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
with the modernisation of the rail networks we know will take more cars | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
off the road. Question two. Will the First Minister made a statement on | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
the Welsh government's priorities for children and young people in | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
Torfaen? I have set up my priorities in the new programme for government, | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
Taking Wales Forward. I want every child to have the best start in life | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
and to recognise that focus. I'm sure that you will be aware of my | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
concern that the decision was taken to end schools challenge country in | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
the draft budget and that this decision was taken before the Welsh | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
government received the evaluation of this scheme and it is clear that | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
lots of areas have seen very significant benefits through the | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
programme but it is also clear that there is more work to be done in | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
areas like my own where we have a number of challenge schools. Can I | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
ask whether you have any plans to make continued additional funding | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
available to schools which were benefiting under the programme but | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
have yet to make further progress? And how will we make sure that the | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
good practice that has happened in the other parts of Wales can be | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
ruled out everywhere? It is certainly the case that most schools | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
have benefited from the scheme. They no longer need that support, they | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
are able to stand on their own two feet. There are some schools not in | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
that position and we are looking at how we can help those schools that | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
have not done as well to make sure they are not left behind and to make | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
sure that best practice found in other schools is passport did to | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
those schools that haven't done as well as we would want in order for | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
them to be able to succeed in future. Mohammad Asghar. Happy New | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
Year to everybody here. The Welsh government is committed to created | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
conditions to give every child the best chance in life in Wales. Will | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
the First Minister advise how cancelling the scheme offering 16-18 | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
years old a third of their bus pass travel will help young people in | :08:15. | :08:25. | |
Wales to access jobs or training? The current scheme is coming to a | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
natural end. It's right to say the uptake of the scheme has not been as | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
substantial as was originally intended. Nevertheless, the Minister | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
has been in discussions with the bus and coach companies in order for | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
them to come forward with a suitable alternative school -- scheme by | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
April this year. It is not a case of the scheme coming to an end with | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
nothing to replace it, we are looking at making it more effective. | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
Questions from the party leaders. Leader of Plaid Cymru, Leanne Wood. | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
As we start the New Year, the familiar waiting time problems in | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Accident and Emergency and ambulances showed no sign of | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
dissipating but there is an urgent question on that so I want to ask | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
you about a crisis in waiting times that doesn't often get the attention | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
it deserves. At the start of last term, I asked you about waiting | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
times for children and adolescent mental health services. You said at | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
that time the resources have been put in and I fully expect the | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
waiting times and the numbers to go down as those resources work through | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
the system. First Minister, have the waiting times gone down? If we look | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
at waiting times in terms of mental health admissions, we know they were | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
9570 admissions in the year ending 21st of March 20 16. 1400 resident | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
patients in hospital and units across Wales. So we know that the | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
number of admissions has stayed steady and we now expect to see the | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
money, ?8 million extra that has been put into children's mental | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
health services, help to cut waiting lists, waiting times, I beg your | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
pardon. The answer to the question I asked you is that waiting times have | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
not improved. The numbers of people waiting for over 16 weeks got | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
slightly worse, over the course of the year, and as well as stagnating | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
over the past year, the waiting times remain substantially worse | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
than they were three years ago. One explanation that you have given for | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
this is that there are too many children being referred. For | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
example, in November 2015, you said, evidence suggests that around a | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
third of young people referred to specialists have no mental illness | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
and you said a further third have low-level difficulties that wouldn't | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
reach the threshold for treatment by a specialist service. These | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
sentiments were echoed by your previous Health Minister. Do you | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
stand by that do? Yes. There is no evidence whatsoever that children | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
are being added to waiting lists without reason. The children and | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
young People's committee report of 2014 highlighted that many children | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
have to wait until their condition worsens to access support and the | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
charity Young Mines have said many children and young people tell us | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
they have been frequently turned away from accessing services because | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
the threshold for treatment is too high for them. The evidence is | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
growing that there aren't enough services for young people with | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
mental health problems. I will ask you the same question as I asked you | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
in September last year, when can people expect to see improvements in | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
the waiting lists which you have promised to this Assembly time and | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
time again? Cambs is an acute service. I would not expect them to | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
be referred to them automatically. I would expect young people to see | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
their GP and the GP to refer if necessary. Every secondary school | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
has a counsellor and those services are available for those who require | :12:09. | :12:18. | |
it. I wouldn't expect everyone to be referred. We have made significant | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
investments, there is no dispute about that. We expect to see further | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
significant progress over the course of this year. I will have two right | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
to the Leader of the Opposition in terms of the evidence that we have | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
of the nature of referrals to Cambs and I will provide that information | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
to her. Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Andrew RT Davies. | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
Over the Christmas period and over the last couple of days, there has | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
been considerable speculation over the merits or not as the case may be | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
of the deal before the steelworkers at Port Talbot and the other plants | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
across Wales. Before we broke for the Christmas recess, you clearly | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
said to me in a line of questioning, this is a very good deal and it was | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
a deal we can endorse and it provides a future for the plan. Does | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
that still the thinking that the First Minister has around the deal | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
because I am unaware of any plan B. I am aware there are concerns around | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
the pension scheme but I have to say that I do not see there is any other | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
alternative on the table and so although it is a matter for workers | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
to make their own decisions, the proposal that is on the table is I | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
believe one that will preserve the steel industry in south Wales. There | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
is no plan B. Thank you for the charity because it is important to | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
understand the gravity of the decision that the steelworkers do | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
face. And it is their decision because they are being asked to give | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
up something in return for assurances around the long-term | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
future of the steel industry in Wales. We understand from Plaid | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
Cymru that it is there opinion that this deal should be rejected. What | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
do you think will be the consequences if this deal is | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
rejected for the long-term and medium-term future of those plans | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
that occupied so much of the political agenda as well as the | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
community agenda in those communities through the whole of | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
2016? I understand the concerns of members. But as I have said before, | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
there is no other alternative on the table. The other consortia who were | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
interested in taking over were all concerned about the pension scheme | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
as well so the issue is never going to go away. The alternative is the | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
UK Government could nationalise the industry. Your party made it very | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
clear you will not do that. So it seems to me that it is this plan at | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
the moment or no plan. That is what the workers have to consider. It is | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
a matter of regret that the UK Government, things were different | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
under the previous Prime Minister, have not taken an interest in the | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
steel industry in Wales. They have not addressed the issue of energy | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
prices properly. They have had no discussion with us on the future of | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
the steel industry since the new Prime Minister came into place. I | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
regret that. I noted carefully what Theresa May said yesterday about | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
intervening in the market but we see no evidence of that Indians of help | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
for the Welsh steel industry. I believe you have a very supportive | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
UK Government. An Stephen Kinnock. I can hear the | :15:33. | :15:47. | |
deputy minister champing from a different position but he might like | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
to listen to the question first to give an answer to inform his | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
constituents and the other people in Wales. Do you agree? Can we allow | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
the leader of the Conservative Party to be heard, please? Do you agree | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
that the proposals put forward on the table by Tata Steel are | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
impressive proposals and actually, these do unlock significant | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
investment for the steel plants across Wales and all for a secure | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
future, certainly in the short and medium term for the many thousands | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
of jobs that depend on this investment being unlocked? 7000 | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
jobs... I did ask for the leader of the Conservative Party to be heard | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
and I intend to be listened to when I ask that. 7000 jobs depend upon | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
the steel, do you agree with that? In the absence from anything from | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
the UK Government and the lack of interest from the UK Government | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
since the last Prime Minister left his office, I believe this is the | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
only deal that is on the table, we provided a substantial amount of | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
money, the UK Government provided nothing and we believe it will | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
demand that that package secures the jobs in the steel industry in Wales. | :17:01. | :17:10. | |
Neil Hamilton. Can I welcome the First Minister back from his trip to | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
Norway and perhaps he could tell us what conclusions he arrived at as a | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
result of that. Is he aware that 70% of the Norwegian people are still | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
adamantly opposed to membership of the EU? Regarding membership of the | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
EEE, will begin from that Norway is a member of the Schengen Agreement | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
and so unfettered access to the single market, which the First | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
Minister has always advocated, that will require also unfettered access | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
to the UK for unlimited numbers of EU immigrants? People in Norway, | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
your rightly point out that they do not support EU membership, but they | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
strongly supported EEE membership and freedom of movement, but there | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
is a difference and I believe this is an issue which is a profitable | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
route for us to pursue in the UK. Freedom of movement in Norway allows | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
freedom of movement to work, it is not unlimited, there are some rules | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
surrounding how people can look for work if they lose their job but it | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
is not an unfettered right of freedom of movement. All the | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
actually do is follow the European rules to the letter, which the UK | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
did not do. UK was more liberal in its approach and went beyond what | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
was required by the rules. If that is what is required in order to | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
access single market, I would have thought people would have found that | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
perfectly reasonable. We discovered the answer to that question with the | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
result of the referendum itself because it was overwhelmingly, the | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
result of which, was motivated by fears about unfettered migration... | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
Yes, that is correct. All of the evidence shows... All of the | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
evidence shows that that was the clinching factor in the result. | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
Plaid Cymru, of course, are not only in favour of full membership of the | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
single market, they also favour full membership of the customs union | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
which would prevent us entering into deals with third-party countries as | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
well, at least the Labour Party has not gone that far in its arguments | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
to EU membership! The reality is, I did not, First Minister, that 508 | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
million people currently have arrived being EU citizens in this | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
country to work and everyone members of the IEEE that led to all intents | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
and purposes be the same as it is at the moment? No, because if you | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
interpret the rules strictly, that is what you get, I believe people | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
will accept that. If people believe that someone was coming to a job | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
that they had, that would be reasonable, a reasonable position to | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
adopt. We must also remember that the UK will have an open border. It | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
will have an open border in Ireland which will not be in any way police | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
or monitored. Whenever this is mentioned in discussion by UK | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
ministers it is like an ostrich plunging its head into the sand, | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
they continue to tell us it will be fine, but the reality is that given | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
the fact it will be an open border with the EU, given the fact that the | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
UK Government will want to monitor what someone has the right to work | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
in the UK, how does an individual proof that right? Passports and | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
driving licences are optional, but you end up with a compulsory system, | :20:31. | :20:41. | |
there is no other way of doing it, it has the right to work in the UK, | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
how does an individual proof that right? Passports and driving | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
licences are optional, but you end up with a compulsory system, there | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
is no other way of doing it, it is not properly been thought through | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
and there are many question Jet2 be answered by the UK Government. In | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
the nicest possible way I would like to encourage the First Minister to | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
spend more time abroad and going to other countries where they can learn | :20:58. | :20:59. | |
something about how the world operates outside of the EU, and in | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
particular, I would like to encourage him to go to South Korea, | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
not just because it is about as far away... Via Los Angeles, possibly! | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
Because South Korea has actually managed to negotiate a free trade | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
agreement with the EU, it is not part of the single market, but it | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
has all of the trade benefits of the membership as part of a single | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
market without any of the problems with the freedom of movement of | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
people. As this has been lauded by the trade Commissioner of the EU, in | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
these terms, she says, the evidence of the agreement with South Korea | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
should help convince the unconvinced of Europe that there is great | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
benefits to be had by this way. It creates jobs. I am sure that the | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
First Minister and I are in agreement on that point and | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
therefore it would be very helpful for the UK in general if he were to | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
add his considerable weight to the argument for more free trade | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
agreements with the rest of the world, something we could negotiate | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
on outside the customs union and outside of the EU. I will try to be | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
optimistic by what he means! The reality is this, the free trade | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
agreements take many years to negotiate, the UK will not have such | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
agreements within two years. When I have spoken to officials involved in | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
such discussions they find it laughable that we would even suggest | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
that, it takes almost two years to send up a framework for discussions. | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
The concern I have is then that two years the UK will have fallen off | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
the edge of the cliff and we will have deals with no one because there | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
will be no transitional arrangements and they are absolutely crucial | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
beyond March 2019, otherwise they will be nothing. He mentioned South | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
Korea, I do not want the UK to become a European kind of North | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
Korea that is cut off from the rest of the world and has no trade deals | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
with anyone, that cannot be in the interest of anyone. We must be | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
realistic. It has been said that the world will follow the fate of the | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
UK, I do not believe that. The UK is small compared to other trading | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
blocs, we must be realistic and enter negotiations with an open | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
mind. We also have to understand that as far as market access is | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
concerned, there is a quid pro quo, we cannot demand from the European | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
Union everything they want and expect to get it, that is not going | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
to happen that way. For me, there is a choice. Either UCB will limit | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
immigration which is impossible because of the order -- open border, | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
UCB will have access to the single market, that is absolutely the most | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
important issue for us in Wales and therefore anything else can be | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
compromised on. If we say to the people of Wales that there is the | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
freedom of movement to work, that is something that most will accept as | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
perfectly sensible. Will you make a statement on the | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
importance of economic development to achieve the government's target | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
of a million Welsh speakers by 2050? Well, we have consultations in or | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
craft to achieve that figure by 2050. The finalised document will | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
discuss the relationship between the Welsh language and economic | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
government and we will publish the final strategy later this year. -- | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
draft. Thank you, Plaid Cymru strongly | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
believe that they must have social activity and economic prosperity in | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
the Welsh speaking areas of Welsh language is to be strengthened. We | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
believe developing urban areas. Do you agree that we need to take all | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
possible opportunities to involve national institutions in areas with | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
the Welsh national out the strong as part of the strategy and do you | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
agree that creating the new financing body that will be required | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
to administer taxation in Wales will be an excellent opportunity to | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
create high-quality bilingual jobs in an area such as the Menai area of | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
north-west Wales and may I suggest some ideal locations because the | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
government has a half empty building they are already which is ready for | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
use and the establishment of the revenue authority there would be a | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
great boost to the Welsh language both locally and nationally. That is | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
a very important question, I understand why the member supports | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
the Carmarthen bed, but that is something I have asked officials to | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
consider. The point raised is whether it really possible to ensure | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
that there is prosperity to have skills in those less urban areas and | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
that is an open question at the moment but I do understand where | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
anybody is created, a new public body in that regard, we should look | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
beyond Cardiff and look beyond the south to see whether there is a way | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
to ensure that that can be located somewhere else in Wales. This is | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
something we are currently considering. | :25:49. | :26:00. | |
Evidence from the review suggested there were differences between how | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
SMEs and larger businesses use the Welsh language with many SMEs saying | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
that the Welsh language was a cost, rather than a benefit since the | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
review was published three years ago, can I ask what practical | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
support the Welsh Government has provided to specifically help SMEs | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
increase the commercial advantages of operating bilingually? Two | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
points, firstly, it is an opportunity for businesses, the | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
businesses seem to provide a service in Welsh, it will be receive more | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
favourably by the community, there is no question of that in my mind. | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
Secondly, only more practical point, there is a pilot project that has | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
been operating in Don Valley operating local businesses to help | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
them provide a service in the Welsh language and help them understand | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
the economic benefits to members of business by operating bilingually. | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
That project is important in terms of being able to gather the evidence | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
as to what might work in a future in terms of helping SMEs to develop | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
their language for a spot of the business. | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
What recent discussions has the First Minister had with Cabinet | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
Secretary is regarding the Environment and Sustainability | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
Committee of the fourth assembly report, a smarter energy future for | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
Wales? I know that the Cabinet Secretary has given great | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
consideration to this and has led on this and given her response on | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
energy matters and there were complaints of response to this | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
report was to work across government and is available on the web page. | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
Thank you for that answer. He will know that a new year is often a time | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
for New Year resolutions as well. Could I ask the First Minister | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
whether he and the very able Cabinet Secretary will undertake and resolve | :27:50. | :27:51. | |
to work with the assembly and across government to take forward as many | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
of possible as those 19 recommendations which included a | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
commitment to near zero carbon homes, which included a commitment | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
to driving forward a revolution towards community and localised | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
energy that would tackle the monopoly of the big energy | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
providers, using planning and other policy tools and horrible boost | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
immunity energy, and the drive that revolution as well within clean, | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
green energy jobs, right across Wales, urban and rural, likewise. A | :28:22. | :28:28. | |
hallmark of that government and its assembly in successive | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
administrations has been a commitment to champion the | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
environment and real sustainability. Will this be the parliament and will | :28:36. | :28:38. | |
this be the assembly that will be -- and will this be the government that | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
makes this a reality, a real green M Georgi -- a real, green energy | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
revolution and the jobs boost for the future of Wales? I believe so. | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
The 19 recommendations we are willing to accept 12 of in full in | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
principle. In terms of how this is being taken forward we have seen the | :29:00. | :29:07. | |
success of a locally owned wind farm that was featured on the Money Box | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
programme this weekend. There was an event on Friday is being posted. | :29:13. | :29:19. | |
Ofgem are making sure that Welsh voices will be heard on a smart | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
flexible energy system. I commend this excellence -- | :29:25. | :29:33. | |
excellent report. It is important the drug worked hard on reflect on | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
the importance and success of previous reports. I know you will | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
return to this. But about ambition, we want that ambition reflected in | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
the government's programme and there is a real chance year, the Welsh | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
economy was built on more or less a single source of energy and we | :29:48. | :29:54. | |
suffered for that after the 1920s with the replacement of coal with | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
oil. New opportunities are before us and those opportunities could help | :29:58. | :29:59. | |
us to transform the Welsh economy and make it much more greener and | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
resultant and locally controlled. Wind is there, the tie will always | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
be there as long as the wind is a nice guy. These are truly renewable | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
resources if properly harness can drive our energy consumption and | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
energy exports infinitely, potentially, these are issues we | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
must move forward with. We will, of course, in the Wales Bill have more | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
powers over energy consenting but the financial aspect of energy | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
development remains with the UK Government. We of course look | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
forward to see what the Henry review will tell us in terms of the tidal | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
lagoons and bebop with the UK Government to ensure that we do have | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
renewable energy that is and has a very low energy and revenue cost in | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
terms of generation and is there for the foreseeable future. | :30:50. | :30:53. | |
Simon Thomas. May I recommend to Assembly Members that if they want a | :30:54. | :31:02. | |
vision of the future that is anticipated any committee report | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
that they visit the solar village in Pembrokeshire where new social | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
housing has been opened by the Cabinet Secretary and I was also in | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
attendance last Thursday and those are the kind of developments that | :31:16. | :31:18. | |
are possible now in Wales and we should see far more of that | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
developed here. But specifically the committee recommendation made on | :31:23. | :31:28. | |
energy suggests the creation of a not-for-profit energy company for | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
the whole of Wales to be an umbrella body for developments such as those | :31:33. | :31:38. | |
that you have just listed. Developments that bring people | :31:39. | :31:43. | |
together and get the best possible deal for the customer as well as the | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
environment and the government. What steps are you taking to undertake | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
that sort of development? Discussions have taken place between | :31:53. | :31:55. | |
officials and several bodies with regards to developing schemes to | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
establish a green energy company for Wales and we have to be clear about | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
what the purpose of such a company would be before we move forward. But | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
those discussions have taken place. Mike Hedges. Will the First Minister | :32:08. | :32:15. | |
make a statement on primary care provision? Health boards are | :32:16. | :32:18. | |
collaborating with partners to invest in primary care as the | :32:19. | :32:22. | |
mainstay of our health and care system, working in communities to | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
tackle poor health and to do what matters and to diagnose and treat | :32:27. | :32:34. | |
problems with a occur. I received a number of complaints since Christmas | :32:35. | :32:38. | |
regarding primary care provision basically in two practices within | :32:39. | :32:42. | |
Swansea East, one about not being able to make an appointment, being | :32:43. | :32:48. | |
told to phone back the next morning, difficulty getting vaccinations, and | :32:49. | :32:51. | |
unwillingness to make home visits. I also know that the other surgeries | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
cavilling my constituency. What can the government do to standardise the | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
care and bring all doctors surgeries up to the level of the best? It is a | :33:02. | :33:08. | |
point I hear from people on occasion. They ask why the services | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
are not consistent. Those services are provided by health boards and | :33:14. | :33:17. | |
are consistent but we know that most GPs are independent contractors and | :33:18. | :33:20. | |
that is what the situation will be for some years to come. It is | :33:21. | :33:24. | |
important for the public to be able to access services when they need | :33:25. | :33:28. | |
them. I expect local GP practices and health boards will be focusing | :33:29. | :33:35. | |
on them. There is money on the table. The primary care fund of ?43 | :33:36. | :33:42. | |
million. That is there in order to improve ways of delivering services, | :33:43. | :33:46. | |
for example developing the role of nurses so people don't feel they | :33:47. | :33:52. | |
have to visit their GP or the time. And placing pharmacists, | :33:53. | :33:54. | |
physiotherapists and social workers alongside GP teams. Then they can | :33:55. | :33:59. | |
get the right professional that they need. Angela Burns. You make the | :34:00. | :34:09. | |
absolutely fundamentally correct point about needing more of the | :34:10. | :34:14. | |
Allied health care professionals in place in general practices in order | :34:15. | :34:18. | |
to help to maintain a good quality service. My question is, last year, | :34:19. | :34:25. | |
there was an absolutely right focus on getting more doctors into Wales, | :34:26. | :34:28. | |
whether it was secondary or primary care. This year will you be able to | :34:29. | :34:31. | |
look at how we may recruit more people into the allied health | :34:32. | :34:35. | |
professions, how we might have adequate training creations -- | :34:36. | :34:40. | |
places for them, how we might encourage young people that this | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
might be a real career path for them and show them there is a real career | :34:45. | :34:47. | |
development because we are not going to solve our primary care issues | :34:48. | :34:52. | |
without having that broad structure of competent individuals offering | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
holistic services to people. We launched the first phase of the | :34:57. | :34:59. | |
national and international recruitment campaign last October, | :35:00. | :35:04. | |
attracting doctors, but Italy GPs, to live and train in Wales, and the | :35:05. | :35:09. | |
numbers of applications have increased, including in those areas | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
where we have introduced an incentive -based approach. I can say | :35:14. | :35:16. | |
that the Cabinet Secretary has agreed plans for phase two of the | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
recruitment campaign earlier this week aimed at other health care | :35:21. | :35:23. | |
professionals in primary care. Rhun ap Iorwerth. Thank you. With | :35:24. | :35:30. | |
emergency departments in our hospitals in crisis, the words of | :35:31. | :35:38. | |
the Royal College of medicine is -- the Royal College of Emergency | :35:39. | :35:40. | |
Medicine, would the First Minister agreed that the erosion there has | :35:41. | :35:45. | |
been in the percentage of NHS funding provided to primary care and | :35:46. | :35:51. | |
the stress that places on our GPs surgeries, then that causes problems | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
for our A departments. And there's the First Minister agreed, | :35:58. | :35:59. | |
therefore, that it is now time to look again at how health funding is | :36:00. | :36:04. | |
allocated in Wales in order to ensure fair funding for primary care | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
in order to maintain a sustainable NHS the future? Two things. I don't | :36:10. | :36:15. | |
think it is just about having more and more doctors. We need to make | :36:16. | :36:19. | |
sure that people do go to the relevant professional for them. That | :36:20. | :36:24. | |
could be a pharmacist or it could be a nurse or a physiotherapist. It is | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
right to say that we need to ensure that we do maintain the right number | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
of doctors but it is not just about having doctors. It is important that | :36:33. | :36:38. | |
people don't remain in hospital for too long. We have seen the problems | :36:39. | :36:42. | |
that have arisen in England because they have cut back on expenditure | :36:43. | :36:45. | |
for social services and social care in particular. In Wales, we | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
maintained the level of funding to ensure that didn't happen. It is | :36:52. | :36:55. | |
true to say that there are pressures in our health service, that happens | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
every year, especially in our emergency departments. They have | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
been plans put in place and those have worked, despite the pressure | :37:05. | :37:08. | |
that has been placed on doctors. May I pay tribute once again to all | :37:09. | :37:12. | |
those who work in our health service, especially those who work | :37:13. | :37:15. | |
in the emergency services, for the excellent they were -- work they do | :37:16. | :37:22. | |
at this time of year. Adam Price. What plans does the Welsh government | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
have two encourage Wells consumers to buy Welsh produced goods and | :37:27. | :37:31. | |
services? Direct support through business Wales and we are also | :37:32. | :37:34. | |
working alongside the national procurement service to increase the | :37:35. | :37:36. | |
amount of Welsh produce coming into the public sector. And the food and | :37:37. | :37:44. | |
drink industry, Welsh produce is far more, far better labelled now than | :37:45. | :37:49. | |
it was 15 years ago. He may have the experience that I have of going into | :37:50. | :37:53. | |
local shops and seemed that Welsh produce is first off the shelves. | :37:54. | :37:59. | |
Norway, which he visited recently, the Republic of Ireland, the German | :38:00. | :38:05. | |
region of Hesse, and others, all have an visual and widely recognised | :38:06. | :38:09. | |
country of origin brand which is largely aimed at domestic consumers. | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
If, as it seems, we are going to be rejected out of the single market by | :38:16. | :38:18. | |
that regressive alliance of Corbin and made. --, import substitution | :38:19. | :38:25. | |
will be even more important to us in the future so can we have a made in | :38:26. | :38:31. | |
Wales brand as the first line of defence from the economic lunacy | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
emanating from Westminster? This has been looked at in the past as to | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
whether there is a need for brand for Welsh produce or whether it is | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
better approached through having strong brand recognition for | :38:45. | :38:48. | |
individual products. These days, most food producers to label their | :38:49. | :38:53. | |
products as Welsh. That is seen as a great advantage to them. For some, | :38:54. | :38:59. | |
less so, but it is certainly more prevalent than it was 15 years ago, | :39:00. | :39:04. | |
and people are far more likely now to buy Welsh produce. I remember at | :39:05. | :39:08. | |
the time of the foot and mouth crisis, one of the big supermarkets | :39:09. | :39:12. | |
didn't label anything as Welsh. That has long changed and things are | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
better for it. The domestic market in Wales is important but it is a | :39:17. | :39:19. | |
small market. That is why we continue to make sure we have an | :39:20. | :39:24. | |
emphasis on exports and having Welsh branded | :39:25. | :39:37. | |
products going to export. When we look at Welsh food, the one thing we | :39:38. | :39:41. | |
must avoid is the Norwegian situation where there is a tariff on | :39:42. | :39:43. | |
food. They were saying to me that the tariffs are so detailed, there | :39:44. | :39:46. | |
is one tariff for smoked salmon and one for fresh salmon, which gives | :39:47. | :39:48. | |
you an idea how difficult trading negotiations are. But for Norway, | :39:49. | :39:51. | |
they do have tariffs imposed on the agricultural produce going into the | :39:52. | :39:53. | |
European market. The very last thing we need is to see the same thing | :39:54. | :39:58. | |
happened to us. Jeremy Miles. I was pleased to hear the First Minister | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
referred to the role of Welsh public bodies in supporting not just Welsh | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
producers and suppliers but also in proactively supporting their local | :40:08. | :40:10. | |
economies. What a difference it would make if all Welsh public | :40:11. | :40:14. | |
bodies or all bodies in Wales in receipt of Welsh public funds acted | :40:15. | :40:19. | |
deliberately proactively and collaboratively with one another to | :40:20. | :40:22. | |
support their local economies and including fostering the development | :40:23. | :40:28. | |
of local suppliers and local supply chains. What steps can you take to | :40:29. | :40:33. | |
bring that about? We continue to work on marrying the risk-based | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
approach, simplifying the process for suppliers in bidding for the | :40:39. | :40:41. | |
public sector work and helping to ensure that all suppliers have a | :40:42. | :40:45. | |
fair chance of winning that work? One of the issues in the food and | :40:46. | :40:48. | |
drink sector which was a problem was that they were too small. Companies | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
were too small to supply big organisations like the NHS is in, | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
week out. That was overcome through the pretty woman initiatives that | :40:59. | :41:01. | |
were put in place and we have seen far more produce now taking place | :41:02. | :41:04. | |
locally than was the case 15 years ago. Moving local authorities away | :41:05. | :41:13. | |
from compulsory competitive tendering, we talk about best value | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
for local authorities, it is about making sure that as much money as | :41:19. | :41:21. | |
possible is retained in the local economy. Nick Ramsay. I am pleased | :41:22. | :41:28. | |
that Adam Price has raised this question. Only you could make Jeremy | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
Corbyn and Theresa May sound like a 1960s folk group. I would rather | :41:34. | :41:36. | |
focus on the food and drink issue that the First Minister mentioned in | :41:37. | :41:42. | |
answering. I agree, Wales does have a great story to tell in terms of | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
our home-grown food and drink and you are right to point out labelling | :41:47. | :41:50. | |
as an important tool. Would you agree with me that food festivals | :41:51. | :41:54. | |
and models such as that are very important way for us to sell Welsh | :41:55. | :41:58. | |
produce not just a Welsh consumers, as Adam Price's question originally | :41:59. | :42:03. | |
said, but also to English consumers coming across the border? | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
Abergavenny I'm sure is well respected as a food festival as you | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
will know, but he is right because the events showcase Welsh bodies. | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
The fool hall at the Royal Welsh Show at one time was too small, it | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
was too small, and now it is too small again. That shows the success | :42:21. | :42:25. | |
of the Welsh food and drink industry in its diversification and the fact | :42:26. | :42:28. | |
that so many businesses that were set up over the last decade are | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
still there and are still able to go to the supermarket. There has been a | :42:33. | :42:36. | |
change of heart in terms of the number of supermarkets as well, | :42:37. | :42:39. | |
whereas in the past they prefer to purchase from larger suppliers, they | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
have become more interested in small suppliers and local produce, which I | :42:45. | :42:48. | |
very much welcome. But what we have to avoid more than anyone else is | :42:49. | :42:52. | |
our biggest market, which is Europe, being either closed to us or the | :42:53. | :42:56. | |
terms of trade with that market being less advantageous to us. The | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
US will never replace the European market. The US is very protectionist | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
when it comes to agriculture. Welsh farmers being able to sell on the | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
current terms to the European market is absolutely vital to the future of | :43:11. | :43:16. | |
Welsh farming. Joyce Watson. Will the First Minister made a statement | :43:17. | :43:19. | |
on the outbreak of avian flu in Wales? It is a matter of serious | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
concern. We have a strong track record of controlling animal disease | :43:25. | :43:27. | |
outbreaks and the Cabinet Secretary will be providing an update in her | :43:28. | :43:32. | |
oral statement this afternoon. I look forward to that statement later | :43:33. | :43:37. | |
today. It was the case that during the Christmas break there was a type | :43:38. | :43:47. | |
of duck that landed on Llanelli wetlands Centre and I want to praise | :43:48. | :43:51. | |
the actions that were immediately taken by that wetland Centre to | :43:52. | :43:55. | |
closing their doors to the public for nine days because as a | :43:56. | :44:01. | |
consequence of that, I'm sure that they helped reduce the spread of | :44:02. | :44:08. | |
that avian flu within that area. We do know however that it did spread | :44:09. | :44:11. | |
and it has been an infection in that area. What we also know is that | :44:12. | :44:18. | |
birds don't understand boundaries and I think we would be well advised | :44:19. | :44:25. | |
to take note of the very cold and sharp spell of weather that is now | :44:26. | :44:32. | |
happening in Eastern Europe which might, and in my opinion probably | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
will, create further migration from birds looking for food further | :44:38. | :44:41. | |
south. To us, that is West, of course. My question will be, and I | :44:42. | :44:49. | |
will address it to the minister later, the Cabinet Secretary, how | :44:50. | :44:53. | |
are we going to deal with that and how are we going to inform the | :44:54. | :44:57. | |
public to be aware of those newly migrated birds that could possibly | :44:58. | :45:00. | |
be a source of further infection here. | :45:01. | :45:05. | |
Is it we of course work with the other Great Britain governments to | :45:06. | :45:10. | |
take appropriate action. I would not encourage -- I would | :45:11. | :45:18. | |
encourage other members to report problems to the helpline. It is | :45:19. | :45:21. | |
updated continually, the website, with advice. I would urge all | :45:22. | :45:26. | |
poultry keepers and those involved working with the wild of wetlands | :45:27. | :45:30. | |
trust to check the website frequently. I know that the Cabinet | :45:31. | :45:33. | |
Secretary will provide more information this afternoon. | :45:34. | :45:40. | |
First Minister, in light of these cases of avian flu, what additional | :45:41. | :45:44. | |
work are you as a government doing to assess the impact that this | :45:45. | :45:48. | |
disease could have on the poultry sector? | :45:49. | :45:52. | |
Well, there is of course an effect because there is a period of time. | :45:53. | :46:00. | |
After that period it is not possible to see if poultry are free range | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
because the fact that they have had to be kept him. We know that and we | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
know the effect of those who do keep poultry will be. Presently what is | :46:10. | :46:14. | |
vitally important is to ensure that there are people to deal with the | :46:15. | :46:21. | |
issues and we must understand what the situation is in terms of poultry | :46:22. | :46:25. | |
farmers. As the situation should continue like this. | :46:26. | :46:27. | |
Thank you, First Minister,. There we are, that was | :46:28. | :46:34. | |
First Minister's Questions. If you want more coverage | :46:35. | :46:36. | |
of the National Assembly, you can go online to BBC | :46:37. | :46:38. | |
Wales's Senedd Live page at Don't forget, for all the latest | :46:39. | :46:40. | |
political news, watch Wales Today later today at 6:30pm | :46:41. | :46:44. | |
on BBC One Wales and As for First Minister's Questions | :46:45. | :46:47. | |
though, from all of us | :46:48. | :46:51. |