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Statement by the First Minister: Government priorities
—it's the lightest First Minister's statement I've seen at an opening of a Senedd term. You do need to step up to the plate, your Ministers need to step up to the plate, and this statement won't change the direction, won't move the needle. And the sooner we…
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Statement by the First Minister: Government priorities
First Minister, thank you for your statement this afternoon. I think this is the seventh legislative statement/First Minister priority statement/programme for government statement that we've had in the last 12 months from the Labour Party here in the Senedd…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, you made much play in your interview on Sunday of saying you were going to stand up for Wales when that needed to happen and speak up for people here in Wales. I have said to you that, on your own party’s figures, 4,000 people—. I hear the…
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Questions to the First Minister
No apology. No contrition. And the figure I said to you was 400,000 Welsh pensioners will lose this assistance, this vital assistance that they require to keep themselves warm this winter. It is the wrong policy and the wrong choice, and your colleagues in…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. First Minister, you highlighted how you'd met with the Chancellor back in August, and I hope, in those conversations, you directed the Chancellor to the genuine anger that is around this withdrawal of the winter fuel allowance…
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Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Thank you, Presiding Officer. Can I congratulate the First Minister designate on her appointment at the vote of the Senedd today? I congratulate her on that very carefully crafted speech as well, which encapsulated a lot of the thoughts and sentiments that…
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Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Andrew R.T. Davies.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Motion under Section 37(1)(b) of the Government of Wales Act 2006
Presiding Officer, I don't mean to sum up at any great length, because I think the spokespeople from the various parties and the First Minister spoke and put their positions. I genuinely don't believe that anyone set out with the intention to cause harm…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Motion under Section 37(1)(b) of the Government of Wales Act 2006
Thank you, Presiding Officer. I move the motion in the name of Darren Millar on the order paper this afternoon. Obviously, events have overtaken the motion that was laid last Wednesday, but it follows on from the personal statement that the Member presented…
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Questions to the First Minister
The key thing for people from the outside, the voters, is that they can have confidence that Wales can be governed going forward and that we are delivering on the priorities that people have sent us here to deliver on: waiting times, education, the economy…
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Questions to the First Minister
The important thing here, First Minister, is to understand whether the Labour group in this Senedd are so riven that you are unable to complete that mandate. In your assessment you have indicated that you believe that the Labour group can gather around a…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. First Minister, in the 17 years that I've been in this institution, I don't think you and I have ever shared a lift. This morning, the doors opened and you were standing there. I stretched out my hand to shake your hand and wish…
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Topical Questions
Thank you, First Minister, for that detailed response to my initial question and I agree entirely with the fact that, obviously, any Cabinet is formed at the request of the First Minister, and those who serve in that Cabinet are entirely at the discretion of…
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Topical Questions
1. Will the First Minister make a statement on Hannah Blythyn MS’s statement in the Senedd Chamber on 9 July 2024 that she was sacked as a Welsh Government Minister without sufficient evidence that she was guilty of leaking messages? TQ1146
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Statement by the First Minister: The Legislative Programme
I'll just touch on this final point, if I may, then. On the environmental principles and biodiversity Bill, this obviously will be a key piece of legislation. We will be the last Parliament to enact such a piece of legislation—I think I'm correct in saying…
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Statement by the First Minister: The Legislative Programme
I could go on and on.
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Statement by the First Minister: The Legislative Programme
Thank you, First Minister, for your statement this afternoon on the legislative programme. I say this on an annual basis: it always amazes me when we stand here to think back to the legislative competence Order days, where Members, if they wanted, or even if…
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Questions to the First Minister
I asked you for two points. One: is there a plan on the table, and has that been put to the Tata board? You clearly have not indicated that a plan has been put to the Tata board. And two: will the investment that is identified, the £2.5 billion that you talk…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, you have accused me of being an arsonist; you have accused me of deliberately misleading. You are a First Minister who is standing there with a vote of no confidence around his neck. You are a First Minister who took £200,000 from a man with…
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Questions to the First Minister
My question was relatively straightforward: has a plan been presented to the Tata board? Because we were told that you had an oven-ready plan to deliver once you assumed the office of UK Government Ministers and Secretaries of State being able to negotiate a…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. First Minister, yesterday you hosted the new UK Prime Minister. He talked of the Tata plant—[Interruption.] I thought I'd get you a cheer, at least, once in this Chamber, First Minister. [Laughter.] You can thank me later. The…
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Questions to the First Minister
It's interesting to note that you weren't on the campaign bus that went to Paul Davies's constituency the other day. I wonder why. Withyhedge, perhaps. But your condescending tone of talking to people about the cost-of-living crisis—. There has been a…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, he's not very proud of you, First Minister, because he can't even mention your record here in Wales. You've highlighted things that you believe are positive here in Wales; they are but mirages, at the end of the day, built on sand that will disappear at…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. As you were highlighting there, First Minister, there is something happening on Thursday—it's an election, and it'll offer the people of Wales the choice. But, what we have heard from the leader of the Labour Party is complete…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport
Minister, the Learner Travel (Wales) Measure 2008, which was brought in by a previous Government, for many learners, is one of the safe routes to school mechanisms that protect their journey to school and get them to their place of learning. The Welsh…
