Infrastructure Developments on Ynys Môn

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport – in the Senedd at 1:38 pm on 10 January 2018.

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Photo of Mark Isherwood Mark Isherwood Conservative 1:38, 10 January 2018

As you will be aware, the north Wales growth bid from all councils and all partners was submitted early in our Assembly recess. Not only was it proposing measures to strengthen the economy in the north-east, but to spread that prosperity at last westwards. It includes proposals for investments to extend Parc Cefni in Llangefni, Parc Cybi in Holyhead and £50 million for the Holyhead port redevelopment, alongside, on the mainland, the Trawsfynydd centre for energy generation. The bid is asking both the UK and Welsh Governments to enter into negotiations with them early in this year on these and the other proposals. Can you, therefore, update us on how you propose to approach that and in what sort of timescales as we take this forward? Also, in so doing, how will you exploit the opportunities in these centres with Ireland, where, yesterday morning, I met Ieuan Wyn Jones, our former colleague and now the executive director of Menai Science Park, who told me the good news that they've already got 11 tenants ready to go in, but there's growing interest from Ireland in the current broader Brexit context?