Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:47 pm on 29 November 2017.
I'm very grateful to the Member. We, obviously, all welcome the creation of an independent adjudication process, but, as has already been said, that should never mean that the First Minister then does not subject himself to ordinary parliamentary scrutiny by Members of this place, and I, and probably other Members now, have received written replies back to written questions where the First Minister is refusing to answer those questions because he says they will properly be referred now to the independent adjudication. Well, that can never be acceptable. We're duly elected in this place to hold the First Minister to account, and he should not use the independent investigation as an excuse not to answer questions.