Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:23 pm on 20 September 2016.
Well, first of all, on the A55, if we start eastwards, we know there are issues around the junctions further east and the issues around the junction with the A494. The Llanfairfechan and Penmaenmawr roundabouts are going, so that the problem will disappear on that stretch of the road. If we go further west, we're still looking at the issue of a third Menai crossing. The A55 is not a true dual carriageway, given the fact that it's a single carriageway over the Britannia bridge, and that is—I've seen it myself often enough—a real choke point as well. No-one would build a road to that standard now—I mean, there are no hard shoulders, and it's a major route. One of the issues we’ll be looking at over the next five years is to see where the road can be widened and where funds can be allocated for that to happen, but Llanfairfechan and Penmaenmawr are the first two areas that will be looked at.
He mentions flooding. The issues in Talybont are resolving with the help of Gwynedd Council. The issues between Aber and Tai’r Meibion again have been taken forward, with the flooding that occurred there. But the issue for the A55 to me is getting rid of the roundabouts to help the flow of traffic, and, of course, in time, widening the road to a standard that we would expect—even a hard shoulder, which isn't even there in some parts of the road now.
On the SuRNICC, there is no delay. The SuRNICC is proceeding as planned. He would have heard me say many, many times in this Chamber that the SuRNICC was my decision to place in Glan Clwyd, and I stand by that decision. It will move ahead; I can give him that assurance.
In terms of free childcare, well, I mean, I'm not sure what his party's policy was on free childcare in the election in May. It wasn't detailed, but from our perspective, we said what we would do in terms of 48 weeks a year, in terms of 30 hours of free childcare, and that’s exactly what we intend to deliver.
On the PPIW report, it’s just that—a report. It’s not Government policy. It’s not long been delivered, actually, in the past week. It’s not something that is under active consideration.