Mark Reckless: Clearly, it is the 200-mile or median line limit, and some fish will cross over borders. But isn't it the case, actually, that the majority of fish stocks do not?
Mark Reckless: The Member is absolutely correct and I commend him and his party in Government on what they have now done in this area. Amendment 5 we also support, and amendment 6—the maximum sustainable yield. I think that approach seems to have quite a broad consensus of—. So, that's why I was a little surprised with Huw Irranca's intervention earlier. I wasn't quite sure why he left, because I...
Mark Reckless: Joyce Watson there chastises Nigel Farage for only attending one European Union fisheries committee. He's done something rather more valuable for fishermen by getting us out of the EU and them out of the CFP. I thank Andrew R.T. Davies and Llyr Gruffydd for their generous comments about our motion. I only express my disappointment they won't be supporting it, in light of them. I think Andrew...
Mark Reckless: Will the Member give way?
Mark Reckless: I just wonder, given the historical sweep and span that he has today, whether, looking back, he would have any regrets for his own role in voting for the Maastricht treaty?
Mark Reckless: —let's make a success of it. Let's work together.
Mark Reckless: No, I don't agree. I accept the first part of the Member's statement, particularly with reference to Theresa May's Government and the way it acted. It's not for me to defend Theresa May's Government, but I would note that it was also the behaviour of the Labour Party in the Commons that led to the situation we had. And I'm afraid I doubt the sincerity of many of those MPs who were effectively...
Mark Reckless: I trust the Member enjoys her party and her bongs. I was speaking yesterday to the First Minister about the different ways in which we were marking Brexit day, and I'm glad to see the Conservatives bring forward this motion today. I hear voices from various sides saying that we should come together, and I think that is a worthy sentiment. I'm disappointed that the Welsh Government do not...
Mark Reckless: Will the Member give way?
Mark Reckless: Diolch, Llywydd, much appreciated. I'm not sure what happened there. I object to the motion for two reasons. One is simply in terms of timing. Welsh Government has for some time trailed a debate on the justice commission report, and I think the first thing this morning we had an e-mail announcing the motion under that would be Tuesday of next week. I think it would be better for...
Mark Reckless: To rename the committee, and I want to speak on that as well.
Mark Reckless: Yes, that was an objection, and I thought I'd asked to speak.
Mark Reckless: Does the Minister share my frustration that it's not clear whether Plaid are complaining about fraud or are complaining about the law? Is the issue that second-home owners are reclassifying them as holiday homes but still living in them themselves part time and not renting them out? In which case that's fraud. Is it that they're not renting them out very much and they're not actually reaching...
Mark Reckless: I don't think you are understanding me correctly, because I do accept that the personal can be political and I do think that some behaviours are so transgressive of social norms that there is justification for legislation and in some cases, criminalisation. I'm just saying that I'm not convinced that our society is yet there in respect of this issue, because I think there are so many parents...
Mark Reckless: I will take an intervention.
Mark Reckless: This debate should be about more than whether it is morally right to smack a child or whether it is good parenting ever to use physical chastisement. If it were just about that, then my view is that it is not and, for my own children, I have not smacked them and I hope to bring them up without ever physically chastising them. But that is not sufficient, that view, to vote for this legislation...
Mark Reckless: Good. I think the First Minister had announced that he was going to be making a speech on Friday, but I would like to congratulate him about the meeting he has had today, because I think while the UK Government has understandably been focussed on other things, when there hasn't been a Northern Ireland Government, and when the Scottish Government is antagonistic, I think the Welsh Government...
Mark Reckless: Can I wish all Members a happy Brexit day this Friday? Not least the leader of Plaid Cymru, who I commend on the positive approach that he has taken this week. First Minister, do you support the even more positive approach being taken by the Royal Mint in Llantrisant? For two weeks, they are offering bespoke Brexit tours. I'm looking forward to taking my children to strike their very own...
Mark Reckless: Will the Member give way?
Mark Reckless: There seems to be some objection from Labour Members to his use of the word 'indigenous'. I wonder whether, when people come to make their lives in Wales, it's right that we should welcome them as we wish or whether we should denigrate those individuals as 'visitors'.
