Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:53 pm on 25 April 2018.
That is my concern, of course. The feeling is that the new legislation, whenever that is going to see the light of day, is holding things back substantially at the moment, and is, therefore, holding back the rights of Welsh speakers.
I mentioned that perhaps it’s political goodwill that’s behind this. Perhaps it’s a lack of staffing that's the problem in introducing the standards. I’m still awaiting an answer to a written question that I sent in January asking how many staff have been located specifically in the Welsh language unit, namely the staff that are responsible for preparing the regulations regarding the standards. When I asked you this in committee, you said that there were a number of people working on them—'loads', you said. When will I have a proper answer? I think that there aren’t loads working on the standards specifically in your Government at all, and that you’re ashamed to announce that there is only one—two, perhaps, at the most—doing this important and vital work. You look surprised, but I haven’t had an answer, so I can only speculate.