Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:03 pm on 16 January 2018.
Well, thank you for those three very important points. On the continuity Bill, we are very much looking forward to Steffan Lewis's debate tomorrow. The Government is supporting it and there's a free vote for the backbenchers. We are very much of the view that it would be better if the UK Government put the right position in its own Bill and made the right amendments and carried out the right set of actions, but, in the absence of that, we are making it very plain—and I'm sure this will come out of the debate tomorrow—that we are prepared to do it in their stead and to co-ordinate with other devolved administrations in so doing. So, I'm very happy to say that we are exactly in the same space and we're very much looking forward to that debate tomorrow.
On the Roath park matter, this is a matter that's been raised with a large number of people over the course of the flood prevention scheme. The Minister will be answering questions as part of the Cabinet Secretary's question time tomorrow, and I'm sure the Member will take every advantage of that. And if he has very specific detailed things he'd like to put to her, perhaps he'd be so good as to write with some of those very specific things. She's here, listening to some of his concerns at the moment.
In terms of the Secretary of State, I completely concur with the Member's analysis of it. I don't think it is a matter for me, actually, but it's clearly the case that the Finance Committee needs to get the very best possible evidence and completely understand both sides of the devolution settlement. So, for what it's worth, I agree that it would be very good indeed if the Secretary of State would be kind enough to give us the benefit of his presence here. And I can't resist—I'm sure, Llywydd, you will forgive me for doing this—but the next time he's in Swansea, perhaps he'd be so good as to announce the underpinning of the tidal lagoon at the same time.