Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:49 pm on 4 October 2016.
We’ve had numerous suggestions for the useful things this Assembly could debate. I’m wondering why the Assembly is going to be debating for the third time today the Government’s legislative programme. We had a statement on the legislative programme on 18 May, another one on 28 June and another one on 28 September. You know, stale food tastes no better when it’s warmed up for the third time. Our party thinks that this is actually an abuse of the Assembly, when we could be doing much more useful things. So my party today will not be participating in the debate in protest because it’s merely a repetition of everything that we have said before. I regret that the Government is doing this and I hope that, in future, we won’t be invited to waste our time in this way.