, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
We can get that. But, thank you to you online, a diolch yn fawr, Eurfyl, in the room.
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Yes, certainly.
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Sorry, yes.
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Thank you so much to the three of you this morning. It's been fascinating. It's been great to have you here with us, and your expertise and your experience, and it's really helped us to shape some of our thoughts, and it will come in useful when we are…
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Eurfyl.
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Yes, and passing the political hot potato on to Nick, any thoughts of what you would like to see happen, if we were looking back in 10 years' time?
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
I was thinking more from maybe a structural point, that you were talking about the relationships between the countries of the union, as to whether or not that discourse might be better.
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Fair enough, fair enough. But maybe along the lines of—
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
The last question that I've got, really, is that if we're sat here in another 10 years' time—I'm trying to be optimistic now rather than pessimistic—do you think that we might well be in a very different place, and do you think that some of the relationships…
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
There we are.
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Great. Thank you very much. The final question, then, from me. Actually, before I ask the final question, Mike, did you want to—?
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Sir Paul.
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Sir Paul.
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
I think that goes on nicely to your next question, Peter.
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Certainly, yes.
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Rhianon, did you want to come in?
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Yes, certainly. Would Eurfyl or Nick want to comment?
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
To live in hope.
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Is that—? Forgive me, Peter. Is that more that public discourse doesn't happen and, therefore, there isn't a mature conversation within the country and between people to understand what we can and can't do, and what levers we have available to us?
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Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Sir Paul.
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Lovely. We'll come over to Peter Fox.
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
And within the nations, yes. Mike, are you content?
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
And it goes back to your comment earlier around this union being an unequal union when it comes to parity around the four nations.
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
Yes. Sir Paul, any comments on—?
, Finance Committee
Silk Commission—10 years on: Evidence session
So, the principle is sound; it’s just the practicalities would get in the way. Sir Paul, you’re nodding there. Was that the driver there?
