6. 6. Debate by the Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee on its Report on the Future of Agricultural and Rural Development Policies in Wales

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:26 pm on 28 June 2017.

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Photo of Huw Irranca-Davies Huw Irranca-Davies Labour 5:26, 28 June 2017

Sorry. Thank you for giving way on that item. Indeed, it does give us the opportunity perhaps to do more, but, picking up on Simon’s point, when he raised this, I think, in his contribution, actually, we’ve already shown that there are other countries within the current EU framework that can do that. In fact, the Welsh Government led on the work on that, with Professor Dermot Cahill of Bangor University, who showed that many of these so-called rules that prohibit us doing more with procurement were actually a load of baloney.