Helen Mary Jones: I'm grateful to the First Minister for the answers that he's already given. I mean, it's certainly the experience of parts of the region that I represent. I've had unprecedented calls this last week from places like Llanelli, Pontyberem, Kidwelly, where the unregulated use of fireworks may have been greater than would normally have been the case, because, of course, there were no formal...
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Helen Mary Jones: Will the First Minister make a statement on progress in introducing the living wage across the public sector?
Helen Mary Jones: Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd. If I can begin by returning the Minister to the third phase of the economic resilience fund—and we did, of course, have an opportunity to question him about the situation, about having to close early, last week. There is, of course, the saying that a week is a long time in politics, and I wonder if the Minister can tell us is he yet able to give us a timescale by...
Helen Mary Jones: I'm grateful to the Minister for his answer and for some of the private conversations he's had with me, and I know with spokespeople of other parties, in this regard. I wonder if he can take the opportunity to just lay out a little bit more for us the lessons learnt from the issues that arose with phase 3 intimated in his answers already with regard, for example, to an expression of interest...
Helen Mary Jones: I'm grateful to the Minister for that. If I can take us in a slightly different, more medium-term direction, we were very grateful for the Minister's input to our discussions in committee this morning, and one of the areas that we touched on was the way in which—. Equality organisations have been saying to us as a committee that equality considerations, fairness, haven't always been easy to...
Helen Mary Jones: Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm very pleased to rise today to recommend this report to the Senedd. It is undoubtedly the case that COVID-19 has had a terrible, devastating effect across our national life, and it's had that effect nowhere worse than on the creative industries, which depend so much on face-to-face communication, whether that is to record a television programme or to...
Helen Mary Jones: Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. I think the number and the breadth of responses to this debate, the contributions, show that there's a broad consensus across this Chamber about how important the creative industries are to our national life and about how very important it is that we continue to support and maintain them through this difficult time. I can't possibly respond to everything that...
Helen Mary Jones: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm very pleased to be able to take part in this debate. The inquiry, of course, took place before I joined the committee, although I was there just about in time to participate in signing off the report, and I really enjoyed reading what I think is an excellent report. I'm very happy to commend it to the Senedd. It's a strong and detailed set of recommendations and,...