Andrew RT Davies: On your sentiment there, Minister, I do fully agree with you. The governance of the game in Wales is completely in the hands of the Welsh Rugby Union, and so should be the case. But I think many fans are punch-drunk by some of the developments that have happened, and I saw just a couple of minutes ago a news report saying that the merger is off the table. But from the grass roots right up to...
Andrew RT Davies: First Minister, I'm most probably one of the last people who calls for legislation in certain areas, but in this particular area the French Government have taken the lead with the French agricultural Bill that has recently been enacted about public procurement and the use of public procurement to drive localised economies. I'd implore your Government to look at the example they've set,...
Andrew RT Davies: You cite it.
Andrew RT Davies: Organiser, could I draw your attention to the tweet that was put out by Trade and Invest Wales? I appreciate it was touched on by the First Minister in questions that were put to him by various Members here this afternoon, and reading the website, it does say it is the official Welsh Government foreign direct investment marketing initiative for Wales portal, an arm of the Wels Government, so...
Andrew RT Davies: Clearly, Minister, you're the Minister on point today, with two statements coming before the Plenary, so we'll be seeing a lot of each other as the afternoon progresses. Sadly, the forestry sector hasn't got a brilliant track record here in Wales. It should have a brilliant track record, because it is a huge industry—it employs 10,000 workers and has a turnover of £520 million. That, by...
Andrew RT Davies: Minister, thank you for your statement this afternoon—part 2 of out interaction this afternoon. Anyone who's dealt with any constituency work knows the trauma that flooding brings. What was once a living room is, in essence, once it's been flooded, a sewer. The devastation of personal, family items lost forever, basically, and then the financial blight because of the inability to raise a...
Andrew RT Davies: Minister, I understand obviously the consultation about at the moment about introducing the extra INSET days to prepare teachers for the new curriculum that will be coming forward. Interestingly, the proposal, and it is only a proposal, is about having that INSET day on the same day across Wales, I believe I'm correct in saying. How confident are you that there is the capacity to deliver the...
Andrew RT Davies: Breastfeeding is a critical campaign tool that the Welsh Government should be promoting across all newborns' mothers. I'm someone who wants to join in that campaign—my wife, a former midwife, obviously knows the benefits of that. But the one thing we lack is a workforce of midwives in the Cwm Taf health board area that is fully manned, if you like, with midwives there to help expectant...
Andrew RT Davies: Thank you, Presiding Officer. Welcome to the field of dreams on a Wednesday afternoon after passing a bit of legislation and now into the debate session. It's good to see we've got a better turnout than we normally have on a Wednesday afternoon, we have here, for an opposition day debate. I don't think it might last and I think a cup of tea next door might be calling some Members. But we can...
Andrew RT Davies: Gladly. I could see you waiting. [Laughter.]
Andrew RT Davies: I met the chief executive only last week, and I'm impressed by her ability, but each time over the last six years when issues have come to a head, in particular around staff morale and the direction of the organisation, we're always told that, 'The management is getting to grips with this complex organisation and it'll be better tomorrow', and tomorrow, in this instance, never seems to come,...
Andrew RT Davies: Will you give way, Minister?
Andrew RT Davies: First Minister, we can see plastics all around us. Just go out into the bay area and you can see plastic bottles floating in the corners of the bay. Despite much of the rhetoric in this institution and beyond, sadly, plastic pollution is a huge issue that we singularly seem to be failing at combating in any meaningful way at the moment. We just had the cross-party group on forestry, over...
Andrew RT Davies: Organiser, could I seek two statements, or certainly one statement and some confirmation from you? Confirmation, in the first instance: when on earth will we get the decision from the Welsh Government around the environmental impact assessment on the Barry incinerator? I seem to stand up here every month, and I think we're into month 13 now. The Member for the Vale of Glamorgan and the Deputy...
Andrew RT Davies: Will the First Minister outline the Welsh Government's transport priorities for South Wales Central?
Andrew RT Davies: In my region, Cabinet Secretary—or Minister now, as you're called—the Welsh Government is supporting the development plans for a new road from junction 34 to Sycamore Cross in the Vale of Glamorgan. Many residents within that area support road improvements in the existing infrastructure but for the life of them cannot understand why you are proposing to drive viaducts and new roadways...
Andrew RT Davies: I couldn't agree more with the sentiments that were expressed by the Member for Ogmore. Something none of us wants to see is that situation of civil unrest unfolding. In response to the questions from the Conservative spokesperson, which I thought were very legitimate, in fairness, we can argue about what's going on at the other end of the M4, but this is Assembly question time, and this...
Andrew RT Davies: No, you haven't.
Andrew RT Davies: So, the First Minister's wrong, you say.
Andrew RT Davies: 3. Will the First Minister make a statement on the progress of the Cardiff capital region city deal? OAQ53654
