The Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon

Part of 3. Topical Questions – in the Senedd at 3:13 pm on 10 January 2018.

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Photo of Mike Hedges Mike Hedges Labour 3:13, 10 January 2018

Can I warmly welcome the Welsh Government's action? I don't think it's possible to overestimate the importance of the tidal lagoon to the Swansea bay city region. I know that there is support from Members right the way across this Chamber for the tidal lagoon, and Members I disagree with on virtually everything else are in total agreement about how important this is to Swansea and the Swansea bay city region. 

If Swansea is the first, then we develop the design skills, we develop the technical skills, we develop the supply chain. That means we will develop a whole industry, and people who want to develop tidal lagoons afterwards will be coming to Swansea, just like Aarhus and places in Germany did with wind turbines. Isn't it really one of the most important things that could happen? Does the Cabinet Secretary agree that we really do need to be the first to develop these skills and develop the industry and help answer some of the questions that Russell George was asking earlier?