4. 4. Motion under Standing Order 26.91 Seeking the Assembly's Agreement to Introduce a Member Bill on Protection of Historic Place Names

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:05 pm on 15 March 2017.

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Photo of David Lloyd David Lloyd Plaid Cymru 3:05, 15 March 2017

(Translated)

Thank you very much, Llywydd. May I start by thanking all contributors to today’s debate and those Members who are supportive of the principle and main objective of the Bill, namely safeguarding historic place names in Wales and putting that in law? Now, I can say ‘yes’ to virtually all of Suzy Davies’s questions, but I can expand upon that again outside the Chamber, perhaps, because the main purpose of the debate today was just to win a vote on the general principles—on the need for legislation. I have 13 months to pursue the details—the kinds of details that the Cabinet Secretary wanted today. Well, we’ve had around a month to reach this point. That’s why there is a process, and we’re today voting simply on the principle of making new law—that’s all. The details will be thrashed out over the next 13 months. That’s why the process is in place as it is. So, asking for the details today makes no sense whatsoever, and I’m disappointed, therefore, in the approach of the Cabinet Secretary.

Roedd y bleidlais heddiw yn ymwneud â sefydlu egwyddor gyffredinol. Dyna i gyd. A yw’n syniad da i ddiogelu ein henwau lleoedd hanesyddol yng Nghymru—ydi neu nac ydi—yn gyfreithiol? Nid yw’n anodd, Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet.