Rhun ap Iorwerth: And, of course, I agree that it will be very difficult for us to maintain the kind of funding levels that we have benefited from due to our membership of the European Union. There are other funds also. We had a funding package announced for local authorities in England with ports in them recently. There's the £140 million package for Northern Ireland announced recently. Could you update us...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Diolch yn fawr. I have some questions on post-Brexit funding. You will be very aware of the £1.6 billion post-Brexit towns fund for England. Could you update us on Welsh consequentials that we can expect as a result of that?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Will the Minister make a statement on Welsh Government guidance to different sectors on procurement?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Will you take an intervention on that?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: The figure is wrong and it shows a lack of understanding of how Wales is funded. If you look at identifiable and non-identifiable funding, they show that the figure coming to Wales is significantly lower than that and is lower than is going to London. So, peddling this 120p for every 100p going to England is just not true.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Will you take an intervention?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you for taking an intervention. Very briefly, yes, there are funding streams available. One of the big problems that we face in my constituency with Ynys Môn council, is in people to apply for and co-ordinate the kinds of schemes that could happen, and because they don't have the staff, which long-term funding would allow, they can't draw down the money. So, there is no delivery.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Someone came to see me in a surgery last week, as it happens—a mother who was grieving for her daughter following suicide. She was in grief, and she was asking 'Why?' Why couldn’t more have been done to help her? Why were those things that were obvious to her now as signs that her daughter’s life was in danger not obvious to her at the time? She had been in contact with mental health...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Diolch yn fawr iawn. This clearly is a worrying announcement for us. It's thought, I think, that around a dozen companies are direct suppliers, including Kasai—200 workers in Merthyr Tydfil—Toyoda Gosei in Gorseinon—600, I think, there—Mitsui in Ammanford—over 100. It's a very long list and, of course, those companies have their own supply chains as well. So, there's a knock-on....
Rhun ap Iorwerth: The food and drink industry in Wales issued a report last summer saying that UK consumers wanted to see more Welsh produce. That was at the same time as, of course, Welsh produce was rebranded as British produce at the Royal Welsh Show last year. Can the Minister update us on what the Government has been doing since then to try to stop this rebranding of Wales by the British state?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: 1. Will the Minister make a statement on the effect of Honda’s decision to close its factory in Swindon on the supply chain in Wales? 281
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Will the Minister make a statement on the effect of solar farms on neighbouring communities?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Will the Minister make a statement on recent discussions held on the Menai Strait fishery order?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: On my five-hour journey from Bangor to Cardiff yesterday evening, I looked at a map of the Welsh rail network and it reminded me that this isn't a network created for Wales, if truth be told. We need investment in expanding the network in order to connect Wales. We need to invest across the west coast line of Wales. But investment in the rail network is expensive, of course. We need to think...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Will you take an intervention?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Do you also find it worrying and very distressful that it's only when they've been backed into a corner by this Plaid Cymru motion today that they have actually taken this step?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you. Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. I won't keep you; I just wanted to add to the very short debate that we've had on the parallels with the Republic of Ireland. Oireachtas—and forgive me my pronunciation—is the name of the Parliament; you have the Dáil Éireann and the Seaned Éireann as Chambers within that Parliament. If you do go and Google and put 'Oireachtas' in there,...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: The First Minister's title is the same in Welsh—[Inaudible.]
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Formally.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you very much. I’ve been on the HMRC website today, looking at what would happen in terms of customs arrangements if the UK leaves the European Union without a deal. It’s incredibly complex. It starts by explaining that simplified customs procedures are what is set out. There is nothing simple about this, and, of course, there’s a way of keeping it simple, and that’s to remain...