Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:52 pm on 13 February 2018.
First, he's not correct in terms of what he's quoted the Minister as saying. Secondly, the health board has published a consultation, which contains various options—difficult, some of them; there is no question about that. But it's the health board's responsibility to come forward with proposals, and that's exactly what it has done. I have to say to the leader of the opposition: we have seen, for eight years, cuts in the Welsh budget. We could be £4 billion, by one estimate, better off if he had actually made representations to his Government in London, but he has sat there and done nothing. Ruth Davidson sits in the UK Cabinet. He isn't allowed through the door. The Northern Ireland Executive was given £1 billion, if I remember rightly, for health, or certainly hundreds of millions of pounds. Wales received nothing. There was no consequential. There was no extra money for Scotland and Wales. Can I suggest that, while we are sorting out the mechanics of how our health boards work, he actually does something—that he does what his Scottish colleague does and actually stand up for his own country?