Neil McEvoy: First Minister, in 2012, you denied announcing to the South Wales Echo that the green fields around Cardiff would not be built on as part of Labour's so-called local development plan. Your Labour colleagues stood in the green fields, and I quote, for the record, 'Labour does not want to build in Waterhall fields or on any green spaces.' Those fields are now being built on, and the beautiful...
Neil McEvoy: I won't be supporting this budget here today. I didn't support the final budget, so I won't be doing it, as I said, today. What we have here, really, is some money just being shifted around, no great real change. The phrase 'fiddling whilst Rome burns' really does come to mind. Wales is the only devolved nation that pays bedroom tax. Now, the Cabinet Secretary before said that that wasn't a...
Neil McEvoy: Labour is utterly failing Wales when it comes to housing. This motion claims that Labour are laying the groundwork for more affordable housing, but you only have to look at what's going on in Cardiff to see how absurd this is. Labour is simply selling out our city. Virtually every patch of greenfield in the west of the city and lots in the east are currently being built on, and these aren't...
Neil McEvoy: 3. Will the First Minister make statement on tackling traffic congestion in South Wales Central? OAQ52520
Neil McEvoy: First Minister, we all know that you are making traffic congestion worse in Cardiff rather than tackling it. Thousands of houses are being thrown up right now—right now—along Llantrisant Road, for example, in the west of the city, where there's only a single-carriage road. The metro is at some point in the future. You're also planning on building a motorway, when you can make a decision,...
Neil McEvoy: Leader of the chamber, I would like a Government statement on declarations of interest for members of the Welsh Government. I note, for example, that the ministerial declaration of interests has just been published, five days ago, and your son has been declared as working for the controversial lobbying firm, Deryn, since 2017. Now, Deryn's clients have received at least £100 million of...
Neil McEvoy: You claimed there was a public interest—[Inaudible.]
Neil McEvoy: If you'd wait just a couple of seconds—
Neil McEvoy: It's clear because there are questions to answer in terms of interests, in terms of what people knew, in terms of when the Minister's declaration of interest was known, and whether or not those declarations were made before she addressed this Chamber in replying to the debate on the leak—on the report about the leaks—and also whether or not the declaration was made before the decision was...
Neil McEvoy: I can't support this motion before the Senedd today. I declare an interest as operating in local government, so I'm fully aware of how the office of the ombudsman is being misused. [Interruption.] If you would give me a few seconds, then I'll explain. What colleagues in local government are finding is that when they try—[Interruption.] Thank you. What colleagues in local government are...
Neil McEvoy: Well, I think the Minister's got a really good point, actually, because he's alleging that I was found guilty of bullying. What I was found guilty of was saying that I wanted to restructure the council, and that, perversely, was interpreted by the Minister's friend or former business partner, whatever he is, as supposedly—
Neil McEvoy: As I said, it's just not something I can support. The office of the ombudsman is being misused. The public out there are telling me that there are serious reservations about the integrity of this office. And I'll leave my comments there, and I will be voting against.
Neil McEvoy: Leader of the Chamber, the latest scientist to say that, in the interests of health and safety, the dredging and dumping of mud from the seabed outside of Hinkley Point nuclear power station should stop is Emeritus Professor Keith Barnham, distinguished research fellow of the physics department, Imperial College London. He is a high energy particle physicist—they used to call them nuclear...
Neil McEvoy: You've never answered this question. Never.
Neil McEvoy: 1. Will the Cabinet Secretary support the scientists seeking answers from Magnox Ltd as to the number and extent of cooling pond accidents at Hinkley Point A that could have resulted in significant amounts of uranium and plutonium in the mud being dumped by EDF in Cardiff Bay? 211
Neil McEvoy: In the 1960s, Hinkley Point A was a nuclear bomb factory. In the financial year of 1968-9, half the nuclear core was removed to provide weapons-grade plutonium. The system was designed to remove only one fifth of the core in any given year. The rush was the result of the international non-proliferation treaty coming into force in 1970. It has been admitted by Magnox Ltd that there were...
Neil McEvoy: Shame on you. Shame.
Neil McEvoy: I would like a statement as to when the Welsh Government were aware of the accidents in the cooling ponds involving weapons-grade plutonium at Hinkley Point A in the 1960s. When was the Government aware of this?
Neil McEvoy: 7. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the Welsh Government's marine-licensing procedures? OAQ52684
Neil McEvoy: Thank you. Cabinet Secretary, it has now been established through legal action that there was no environmental impact assessment to dump mud from Hinkley Point C nuclear reactor onto the Cardiff Grounds. There was no consideration of the effect on the marine environment or public health. It was also established through our legal action that you, as Cabinet Secretary, are ultimately...
