Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:00 pm on 3 October 2017.
Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I move the motion on this financial resolution. In doing so, I want to first of all thank all of those Members who’ve taken part in the scrutiny process of this Bill. We will, if Members agree the financial resolution this afternoon, be beginning Stage 2 scrutiny tomorrow morning. For those Members on the committee, they will see that many of the amendments we’ll be discussing tomorrow derive from the scrutiny of this Bill in Stage 1 by both the Children, Young People and Education Committee and the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee, as well as the Finance Committee. And I’m grateful for the comprehensive scrutiny of the policy and the legal and financial implications of the Bill. I’m firmly of the view that both the Bill and the system are better as a consequence of this scrutiny.