8. 8. Plaid Cymru Debate: Brexit and the National Assembly for Wales

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:00 pm on 21 June 2017.

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Photo of David Lloyd David Lloyd Plaid Cymru 5:00, 21 June 2017

(Translated)

Now, with the Brexit referendum, article 50, the great repeal Bill and the Wales Act 2017, there’s been a lot of political uncertainty and dangers for us as a nation in all of this. Everyone talks about respecting the result of the referendum, but what is missing is the need to respect the decision taken by the people of Wales in 2011 and the decision to have more powers for this Senedd. People in Wales didn’t vote to give up those powers, but with the Wales Act 2017, we have seen the roll-back of those powers—193 issues reserved to Westminster, taken back to that place, in addition to all of those things related to those issues, however weak those links may be. Without forgetting the Henry VIII powers also, where UK Government Ministers can change legislation made in this place without telling us.

Now, with the great repeal Bill, that consultation paper with the blue cover, saying, in paragraph 4.2, that Westminster—