Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:39 pm on 13 June 2018.
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and I thank Siân Gwenllian for bringing this debate to the Chamber and for giving us an opportunity to discuss this interesting and important issue, and for the supportive comments also made by two other Assembly Members. As has already been explained, it is very timely that Siân Gwenllian has chosen to raise this issue now, as the Assembly Commission will soon begin the process of deciding which elements of the Assembly electoral reform agenda should be progressed, and at what timescale—whether it should be by 2021 or 2026.
Any decision on any element of electoral reform will, of course, need to achieve broad consensus across this Chamber, and a two-thirds majority of Member votes will be required for that—a little more than we have in the Chamber at the moment.