Adam Price: If I may say so—[Interruption.] If I may say so, that is a disgraceful response from the First Minister to a perfectly valid question, which asked just for an adjudication from him. According to the code, we do have a right to ask him for a decision. He’s made his position clear, and I’m sure that we will return to this issue when more details emerge.
Adam Price: 'if they do proceed, it could make things much more difficult in terms of other National Library issues on which they are hoping to secure our support (e.g. the Broadcast Archive).'
Adam Price: A month later to the very date of that e-mail, we know that this investment for that very broadcast archive was in the balance. First Minister, do you agree that the slightest suggestion of using inappropriate influence by Ministers is entirely unacceptable, and will you therefore give us an assurance that an inquiry will be held to consider whether the Deputy Minister for culture and his...
Adam Price: Thank you, Llywydd. First Minister, last week you told me in this place that it was your Government’s policy in terms of Welsh in the workplace to urge public bodies to do more to promote the Welsh language. However, the opposite seems to have happened in the case of the national library, where it’s become apparent that the Minister for culture has opposed making the Welsh language a...
Adam Price: First Minister, my colleagues at Westminster are meeting with Jeremy Corbyn as we speak, in order to explore cross-party co-operation in achieving, even at this late stage, a collaborative approach. We hope greater clarity will emerge about Labour's real position on Brexit. Last week, BBC Wales reported that a senior source inside the Welsh Labour Party—who may or may not be sitting, who...
Adam Price: I’m sorry, but I don’t understand what the First Minister’s just said, so perhaps in responding to my third questions when I’ll raise another issue, he could perhaps just explain whether you’re going to support the motion or not. To turn to another battle for justice for a language and culture of a stateless nation—not the Kurds in this case, but Wales and the Welsh language—and...
Adam Price: I welcome the First Minister saying that this is unacceptable. The point is, of course, to do something about it. In the 1980s, I was told myself, 'I hope to goodness gracious that you don't end up gay.' It wasn't acceptable then, it's certainly not acceptable now, and it's the duty of Government, where we're talking about publicly funded schools—it's the duty of Government to make...
Adam Price: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Could I first join in the chorus of hallelujahs around the land that greeted last Saturday's game and the Grand Slam victory, and can I wholly endorse your suggestion, First Minister, made last night on the steps of the Senedd, that when we have the powers to confer honorary Welsh citizenship, then Warren Gatland should be there in the front of the queue? But, of...
Adam Price: Two weeks ago, it was announced with some fanfare that Jeremy Corbyn, having seen eight of his MPs leave the party, had embraced the policy of a people's vote. Two months ago, you agreed to accept a motion that called on the UK Government to make immediate preparations for a further referendum. So, why did the statement your Government released on Monday, and presumably the associated letter...
Adam Price: Will the First Minister make a statement on the Welsh Government’s policy on Brexit following the rejection of the EU-UK withdrawal agreement in the House of Commons last night? (EAQ0005)
Adam Price: Obviously, the determinants of this public health crisis are complex, interrelated, multiple. They're the result of a toxic cocktail of low incomes, poor housing, poor diet, low physical activity and high pollution. Some of these matters are reserved at Westminster, but many of them are within your sphere of control. Let's take cancer, for example. In the last six years for which figures are...
Adam Price: Let's delve a little deeper into particular aspects of what I certainly regard as a growing public health crisis here in Wales. Take the incidence of diabetes: the numbers diagnosed in Wales with diabetes is increasing and now higher than anywhere else in the UK. The highest number of all in Wales and among the worst in the UK—8 per cent of the population—is in Gwent. Only last week, the...
Adam Price: Diolch, Llywydd. First Minister, last week, in your speech to the Scottish Labour Party conference, you stated that social class, rather than geographical accident at birth, is the single most powerful factor in shaping peoples's lives. But, surely, seen through the prism of Welsh experience, poverty and place are hardly unconnected. Poverty is indeed the single most important determinant of...
Adam Price: It's called democracy—[Inaudible.]
Adam Price: Will the First Minister give way? Did the leader of the Scottish Labour Party also not say that his preference is for a revised deal? And is that the position of the Welsh Labour Party?
Adam Price: Will the First Minister give way?
Adam Price: The question that was put to the leader of the Labour Party was: what is his preference—for a people's vote or for a revised deal? He said a revised deal. We're clear that our preference is for a people's vote. What's your position?
Adam Price: And I think that it is incumbent—. We are in dangerous times in all kinds of senses: 24 days out from what I think most of us would accept is a disaster—a disaster for our economy, but also a disaster for our politics and our political institutions. Trust is at an all-time low. Neil Hamilton is right in this regard, at least—not words I would say very often. But it is a result, of...
Adam Price: Thank you, Llywydd, and I do move the amendment in the name of my fellow Member Rhun ap Iorwerth. We, of course, are co-submitters of the motion tabled by the Government, and we welcome the opportunity to work with our Celtic cousins in Scotland. It is an innovative approach that we should also, perhaps, adopt in future in other contexts. We, of course, agree entirely with what the motion has...
Adam Price: The supplementary budget is a relatively technical issue, so I won’t speak for long, but it’s worth noting that this will be the final supplementary budget, I think, as part of the two-year compact that my party had agreed with the Labour Government, and we have delivered a lot, of course, as part of that agreement and we celebrate that, particularly during this recent period. I’d like...
