Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:05 pm on 6 December 2016.
Thank you, First Minister, I would agree that agriculture is often as much a culture as it is an industry, and it maintains our culture. But it is clear now that some who are opposed to devolution, or anti-devolutionists, are using the opportunity that the decision to leave the European Union is giving as a way of unlocking, through the back door, the devolution process that has provided powers for agriculture and the environment to us here in the Assembly. Of course, the leader of the Conservatives here in the Chamber, unfortunately, is one of those people. Would you therefore, First Minister, join with Plaid Cymru, and with anyone else in this Chamber who wishes to do this, in a cross-party campaign with rural organisations and the farming unions to ensure that whatever happens in the wake of leaving the European Union that we wouldn’t lose a single power for agriculture or rural Wales?