6. 6. Debate by Individual Members under Standing Order 11.21(iv): The BBC in Wales

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:55 pm on 13 July 2016.

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Photo of Bethan Sayed Bethan Sayed Plaid Cymru 3:55, 13 July 2016

I obviously don’t want to be speaking as some sort of dictator at the moment; we’re going to be talking as a committee. I’m sure people wouldn’t want to think that I would just tell everybody now what we’re going to be doing as a committee, but it’s something that—well, you know, power could go to my head—. It’s something we will be considering as a committee together. Because, of course, this was something that I read in the BBC consultation before this Assembly term. What I am concerned about, however, is the resources of the BBC then being shared too thinly, and whether the BBC could cope with that, and whether then it would be an excuse for some media organisations who I won’t name to then remove services because they say, ‘Well, the BBC are filling the gap there, so we don’t need to be there anymore’. [Interruption.] Okay.