Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:53 pm on 19 July 2017.
I’m not going to take a second intervention, I’m sorry. [Interruption.] The Member can make her own speech, and I hope she does. But it does give us the opportunity to revive the Welsh fishing industry, and not just inshore fisheries, of course, which are not affected by the CFP, but to go further afield. I don’t think you’ll find many people involved in the fishing industry who think that the common fisheries policy has been the boon that some Members seem to think it is. The result has been industrialised fishing on a massive scale, which has put small fishermen out of business, and we’ll be able to make significant changes to that.
So, there are many reasons why we should support this motion, but as I said right at the start, this is all about bringing down decision making to the lowest possible level so that ordinary people can feel that they have a real role to play in the processes by which their lives are to be controlled and representative bodies such as this, elected by the people, ultimately bear the full responsibility for taking those decisions, and we are accountable to the people. That doesn’t happen at the moment.