Lee Waters: For me, this isn’t about flaming taps or earthquakes. These are clearly issues that would need to be sorted out if fracking was ever to be permitted, but I think there’s a much broader point that this debate is about that cuts through, I think, some of the tortured arguments that David Melding just made. Our whole way of life, since the second industrial revolution, has been built upon...
Lee Waters: Will you take an intervention?
Lee Waters: I had a fascinating visit to a community pharmacist in Burry Port the other week, and I was disappointed that the computer system the pharmacist has does not speak to the computer system that the rest of the NHS uses, and these kinds of digital barriers are stopping the potential this model has.
Lee Waters: May I add my congratulations to the Minister on taking her new role? I can assure Neil Hamilton not to worry overly about the void that there is to fill. Eluned Morgan is a substantial figure in her own right, so I think we can be confident in her ability to take on this agenda with aplomb. I welcome that this is a positive report from the Welsh Language Commissioner. There has, as she notes,...
Lee Waters: It's also very encouraging to note, in her report, the positive public debate that still persists. Eight-five per cent believe that the Welsh language is something to be proud of, and 76 per cent of Welsh speakers agree that public organisations are improving their Welsh language services. I think that is very encouraging. Also as encouraging is the fact that 68 per cent of people would like...
Lee Waters: What assessment has the Cabinet Secretary made of the impact that changes in HMRC rules will have on out-of-hours GP care in Llanelli?
Lee Waters: 5. What assessment has been made of the impact of automation on the delivery of public services? OAQ51365
Lee Waters: Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on the development of a precision agriculture strategy for Wales?
Lee Waters: Thank you, Cabinet Secretary, and can I welcome you to your new role? The most recent Public Policy Institute for Wales report for the Welsh Government predicts that a third of Welsh jobs are projected to be impacted by automation, but would the Cabinet Secretary agree that automation isn't something to try and halt; it's something to try and harness? These advances in technology present...
Lee Waters: How dare you. How dare you. You’re a disgrace. You are a disgrace.
Lee Waters: I find this afternoon's debate incredibly difficult and uncomfortable. There's much that I would like to say, but I think it would be wise not to say it at this time. In two days' time, we're going to be burying our colleague and friend, and I think there's something unseemly about having this nature of debate while that still hasn't happened. I find it reprehensible the way that people have...
Lee Waters: I think you've said enough, Mr Davies—
Lee Waters: He can do that in his own time, Llywydd, with respect. I'm not taking an intervention. I'm not taking—[Interruption.] I'm not taking an intervention. [Interruption.] That's what I heard—
Lee Waters: The tone of the comments—. Other Members have made reference to the whip being cracked. I assure Members of this Chamber that there is no whip needing to be applied in this afternoon's debate. We are all of one voice in agreeing with this independent process being set up and following that through and at the end of it having a full and open debate. At that time, I shall remove the bite mark...
Lee Waters: Will the First Minister provide an update on the implementation of the Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013?
Lee Waters: I'm very pleased that we're debating air quality in the National Assembly today, and I'd like to take us from the general to the particular, and a journey down Sandy Road in Llanelli. This is the road, for those of you not familiar with the area, leading out of Llanelli towards Burry Port and Kidwelly. Along that road are two schools—Coleg Sir Gâr and Ysgol y Strade—and along it is...
Lee Waters: What assessment has the Cabinet Secretary made of the potential for taxing parking spaces in out-of-town retail parks?
Lee Waters: This isn't a matter of concern just for nationalists. This is a matter of concern for democrats, and I think there should be a strong message from our Welsh Parliament to the Spanish and the Catalan Parliaments that the principle of consent must be central to any democratic country. I was appalled at the events over the summer and recently—the way the Spanish Government dealt in a...
Lee Waters: 1. What measures are in place to scrutinise the plans that local authorities have submitted under the Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013? OAQ51489
Lee Waters: Thank you, First Minister. On Friday night, I held the latest of my monthly public meetings, and top of the list of the concerns of people in Tycroes, just as it was in Pontyberem and Llangennech and Kidwelly, was volumes of traffic. Now, the deadline has recently passed for councils to submit their long-term plans for a network of active travel routes they'd like to create over 15 years,...
