5. Motion under Standing Order 17.2 to give instructions to the Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:29 pm on 29 November 2017.

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Photo of Adam Price Adam Price Plaid Cymru 4:29, 29 November 2017

Will you give way? I'm listening to her very carefully, because, obviously, as leader of the house, she has a wider responsibility—she is leader of the entire house. Is she suggesting that our right, our ability, in fact our duty as Members of this Parliament to ask questions of the First Minister is somehow limited, is somehow curtailed—that there are some no-go areas? Because, as I pointed out to her, I have now received written replies in relation to specific questions, as have other Members, where the First Minister is now using the independent investigation as a shield to proper scrutiny. Surely, as leader of the house, she would not want to defend that.