Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:27 pm on 28 June 2017.
Can I say I agree with you entirely? What I was going to say was we could have got round it from the very beginning by saying all instructions had to be in Welsh, and make everybody in Spain, Portugal, and other people who wanted to export to us, produce Welsh packaging with Welsh instructions, and that would have stopped it.
Neil Hamilton—with Brexit, there are lots of different views; yours is probably in a minority in here at the moment. But we’ll find out, won’t we, over the next two years. This is an experiment—not one that many of us would like to go through, but it is an experiment and somebody’s going to be right and somebody’s going to be wrong in less than two years’ time. Importing food from outside the EU, yes—but can I just ask how reliable will it be, what will the quality be like, and what quality of animal welfare will we see from it? I think that some of us are prepared to pay a little bit more not for animals to suffer.
Huw Irranca Davies—he thanked Mark Reckless for the chairing of the committee. I think that’s very important because, although I’m replying now, all the work was done under the chairmanship of Mark Reckless—so, can I just again say thank you very much, Mark, for the quality of the report you were responsible for? Can I slightly change what Huw Irranca-Davies said: Luxembourg has the same power as Germany in the EU—I think that’s a much better one than Malta and the UK, because we won’t be in it much longer. I think he did raise something that was really important, the importance of part 2. Where do we go from here? Because I think that is the situation. Whatever happens, we’re coming out of the European Union—how can we protect it?
Mark Reckless, thank you—it’s your report, so I knew you wouldn’t attack it. [Laughter.] The importance of bilateral discussions, funding—I think that is important—. I think that—. If you remove the support, do you think that hill farming in Wales would survive without any subsidy? We just had, earlier, members of the Conservative group saying how important it was that it got its agricultural support from European agricultural support. In fact, we had complaints that some of it was coming late. Well, actually, when we come out of Europe, none of it will be coming ever.