Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:14 pm on 6 December 2016.
First Minister, farmers in Pembrokeshire are hugely concerned about your Government’s proposal to introduce nitrate-vulnerable zones in Wales because it will be financially challenging for farmers to comply with any new regulations that are proposed in the consultation. So, considering your comments in July that it’s up to the Welsh Government now to decide which laws should be retained and which shouldn’t be retained following the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, could you explain why the Welsh Government has proceeded with this consultation to introduce nitrate-vulnerable zones, which is as a result of a European directive, because the introduction of such regulations will certainly leave farmers in my constituency at a huge disadvantage?