Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:19 pm on 20 September 2016.
Well, I think there’s great scope for looking to devolve services locally where the structure is right. I don’t believe the structure is right at this moment in time with our 22 local authorities. Working with them, we would like to get to a position where we have a structure in place where they can deliver more effectively, where they don’t have departments that effectively begin to collapse because one or two people are on the sick or have left the department, and to make local government more sustainable in that regard. I don’t think the structure is there at the moment. But, as that structure is developed, working with the local authorities, I think there are opportunities there to look to devolve more services locally. But the structure has to be right first.