Adam Price: That's the point, isn't it? It's about fairness, isn't it? The current agreement doesn't reflect a fair price, particularly when Welsh Water customers face the second highest bills in the whole of England and Wales. Now, it's six years since the UK Government promised to transfer the power to Wales over all of our water resources and infrastructure, not just those controlled by the two Welsh...
Adam Price: I suppose, if you forgive me, First Minister, this is one leak, I think, that we would welcome, isn't it? But, of course, that's one of the three regulators that have been quoted. There is the Drinking Water Inspectorate, and it's Ofwat that will be publishing the formal response on Thursday. We await to see what those two other bodies—. But the point stands, of course, that we have three...
Adam Price: Diolch, Llywydd. On Thursday, Ofwat is due to announce its draft decision on whether the plan to extract up to 180 million litres of water a day from Llyn Efyrnwy in Powys and transfer it to the south-east of England is to proceed to the next stage of its rapid investment programme. Do you think it's right, First Minister, that a water regulator answerable to the UK Secretary of State should...
Adam Price: —them who were sacked. Yes, I'll take an intervention.
Adam Price: Your intervention deserves a good response, because that isn't true. The Minister has the power to remove the employee members of the board. Yes, not to terminate their employment, but what is at issue here is their executive leadership role, and the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006, section 27, sets out absolutely clearly that the Minister has the right to remove all members of the...
Adam Price: I heard one of the Labour Members referring to this motion proposing to remove a Minister because of failures of delivery as vindictive. Well, if the removal of a Minister for reasons of failure of delivery is vindictive, how would you describe the removal of an entire independent board? I wouldn't use the word 'vindictive', actually, but I would say it is troubling, and I think it should...
Adam Price: First Minister, you will have read the recent coroner reports into the deaths of Gareth Roberts and Domingo David, who both worked for Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. The coroner found that they died from COVID acquired at work and that these deaths should be classified as deaths from industrial disease. The health board argued against that designation. I realise that it is for the...
Adam Price: Well, can you outline, First Minister, as you've promised to do, what your proposals as a Government are in relation to how a special purpose committee could operate? You did promise to bring forward a motion to the Senedd, and we are yet to receive that. So, if you could update us on that, we'd be very grateful. Now, one of the reasons we need to learn the lessons quickly is the prospect of...
Adam Price: Diolch, Llywydd. It was a privilege to be able to talk earlier to members of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru, who are here in the Senedd today. They told me that their experience of the UK COVID inquiry has deepened their resolve that Wales, like Scotland, needs its own inquiry. The only dedicated Wales-specific component promised so far is module 2B, scheduled to run for two and...
Adam Price: The stand taken by the Beasleys, more than anything, was the spark that began the modern language movement and provided the rights that we have today as a result. Unfortunately, the cottage in Llangennech, which was at the centre of all of this, stands empty today, as it was on that day when the bailiffs took the Beasleys' furniture away in response to their refusal to pay rates. Is there an...
Adam Price: So, if I understand the First Minister correctly, you're not able to say that a future Labour administration would commit to the same level of funding that we would have had under European funds, and you're not able to say that we will get the Barnett consequential. In relation to the devolution of powers, the leader of the Labour Party said that he will await the publication of the...
Adam Price: Just on the specific, First Minister—because this is quite important, isn't it—will that remain your position in the event of a Labour administration in Westminster? Will you be making that point very forcefully to a future Labour administration, not just to give Wales its share of any future expenditure, but also to give us the £1 billion that we've lost already through the £20 billion...
Adam Price: Thank you very much. May I, on behalf of Plaid Cymru, echo that our thoughts are all with the family in Morriston who lost a loved one in the terrible accident yesterday, and everyone else who was affected by it.
Adam Price: First Minister, the UK Government has again and again refused to reclassify HS2 as an England-only project, robbing Wales of £5 billion in Barnett consequentials that could be transformative of our public transport infrastructure. That's even though the UK Government's own analysis shows that it's more likely to damage Wales than to provide any benefit. Will you be calling on any future...
Adam Price: 7. What consideration has the Minister given to commemorating Eileen and Trefor Beasley's contribution to the battle over rights to services through the medium of Welsh? OQ59262
Adam Price: Will the Minister provide an update on support for stroke survivors in Carmarthen East and Dinefwr?
Adam Price: There are reports of plans to increase the level of water currently exported from Wales. Welsh water companies are already the biggest exporters in the UK by a long way, and that water is currently traded at a price significantly lower than the price paid by Welsh Water customers, which is amongst the highest in the UK. Has the Welsh Government been involved in discussions relating to these...
Adam Price: You simply followed the 5.9 per cent decision that was made in Westminster. What's the point of this place if we're simply a cut-and-paste Parliament that passively implements Tory austerity? You could've done what the Scottish Government did, which is to reduce peak fares and pay for it through a progressive use of your income tax powers. At the same time as you're increasing rail fares,...
Adam Price: Diolch, Llywydd. The UK Government has just raised rail fares by 5.9 per cent—the highest increase for a decade. Coming, as it does, in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, it's hard to disagree with Labour's shadow Secretary of State for Transport, Louise Haigh, who said: 'This savage fare hike will be a sick joke for millions reliant on crumbling services. People up and down this...
Adam Price: Does the Minister accept that the fact that over 80 per cent of members of the RCN that participated in the vote on this proposal had voted to reject it shows the crisis of morale within the nursing profession at the moment? And of course, that isn't the only measure we have, really. We have the increase that’s been seen in the number of vacancies, we have an increase in sickness levels...
