Rhun ap Iorwerth: Formally.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Formally.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Maybe in your subsequent answer, you might want to join with Transport for Wales in apologising for the inconvenience that has been caused to travellers over the past few weeks. I personally thought the First Minister was hugely defensive yesterday when criticism was put to him of the situation on Wales's railways, and many thousands of passengers have suffered, failing to get to work or...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: One element of this that hasn't been given a great deal of coverage, if any, I believe, over the past week is the fact that Flybe, through its subsidiary Eastern Airways, runs the link between Anglesey and Cardiff, which is a service that's more popular than it’s ever been. And I congratulate the Welsh Government in that regard. Can you, as Cabinet Secretary, tell us or share any concerns...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you very much. I celebrated as though it were my birthday—27 August, by the way—when we heard the news just a few weeks ago that medical education was going to be provided in Bangor from this next academic year onwards. Siân Gwenllian, I and the Plaid Cymru team more broadly have fought hard for this, and we were very pleased that we had reached agreement with the Government to...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: 2. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on medical education in Bangor University? OAQ52969
Rhun ap Iorwerth: 2. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on train services following Transport for Wales's public apology for shortcomings in services? 236
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on dental services in north Wales?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you very much for taking an intervention. We won't be supporting the amendment, as it happens, although it's well known that I work very positively with the developers at Wylfa. There are a few things with this amendment that I would say are not consistent with certainly what I feel. Long term, I don't think nuclear is the answer; we've got to be clear on that. We've got to be clear...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: I realise the clock's against us, but thank you for taking an intervention. Isn't the reality, though, that we are at the beginning of a protracted period of seven, eight years, over which there will be changes of Government at UK level, changes of Government here and non-statutory inter-governmental agreements could end up as worthless in the context of different opinions and different...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Wales has too few levers as it is, and what happens in taking away the potential powers of the continuity Bill for Wales is that you weaken those powers that we do have. The legal argument is that Wales had a stronger case in the Supreme Court than Scotland did. But, moving on, just over a week ago your party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, told the German newspaper Der Spiegel that Brexit cannot been...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you, Llywydd. First Minister, other nation states within the European Union will decide at a summit this weekend whether the draft agreement on exiting the European Union works for them. Do you think it works for Wales?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: We are a very long way from what was proposed in the referendum two and a half years ago.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: The agreement on offer is miles away, actually, from the promises made and voted on in June 2016. It probably doesn't please anybody at this point. I think we're agreed on that. Where we don't agree is how to protect Wales's interests in the event of the UK ceasing to be a member of the EU, however that happens. Now, the Supreme Court is busy considering whether a Scottish continuity Bill is...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: What discussions has the Cabinet Secretary had with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport on the impact of Brexit on Holyhead port?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Leader of the house, there’s been quite some expectation of a statement and a vote on the future of plans for the M4 in the south-east over the next few weeks. We expect something—or we did expect something—at the beginning of December. Could you explain to the Assembly what the likelihood is at the moment that there could be some delay in the timing of that debate and give us an...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: The impact of the second-homes market and holiday homes is well known, in terms of young people’s ability to get on the property ladder locally. It pushes prices up and pushes people out of the housing market. We know the gravity of the problem—36 homes sold in Anglesey in 2017-18 were second homes or buy-to-lets. The figures are even higher in Gwynedd, and that’s very concerning...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: 2. Will the First Minister make a statement on the impact of registering second homes as business properties on council tax receipts? OAQ52931
Rhun ap Iorwerth: The RAF Valley site is a centre of excellence for the training of RAF pilots. It's also a centre where pilots from other nations do spend time—we know that. But in response to a parliamentary question in Westminster from Plaid Cymru last week, the Ministry of Defence did confirm that pilots from Saudi Arabia were being trained there at the moment. Now, given the grave moral questions...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: 2. What discussions have taken place between the Welsh Government and the UK Government regarding the training of pilots from Saudi Arabia in RAF Valley? 227
