Results 1521–1523 of 1523 for speaker:Alun Davies

7. Plaid Cymru Debate: Bus emergency scheme (22 Mar 2023)

Alun Davies: I think it is important that we have an opportunity to debate these points in this forum, as we do this afternoon. And it's important, I think, that we debate these points, that we listen to what each other has to say, and then that we take interventions from each other so we have a debate, rather than just reading out a preprepared contribution. Because if this debate is to mean anything, it...

7. Plaid Cymru Debate: Bus emergency scheme (22 Mar 2023)

Alun Davies: That’s exactly what we need, and that is actually my third and final point. I hope the Minister will respond to my point on Fflecsi in reply to the debate. But it’s quite an extraordinary thing that Janet Finch-Saunders was able to speak for nearly six minutes about the future of bus services without mentioning the disaster of deregulation. It’s been catastrophic.

7. Plaid Cymru Debate: Bus emergency scheme (22 Mar 2023)

Alun Davies: I don’t know where to start sometimes. Janet, you’re absolutely right that we’ve had 25 years of devolution, but we’ve had nearly 30 or 40 years of deregulated bus services that have failed. They’ve failed the country. This Government is going to change the law in the next couple of years, and I expect you to vote for it, quite honestly, and I hope that all your colleagues will vote...


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