Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 2:01 pm on 13 June 2018.
Can I thank the Member for his follow-up? I completely empathise with the distress that it must have caused to residents in Llanelli, and particularly the area closest to where it happened, and how awful that must've been for people at the time.
Absolutely, there are always lessons to be learned from these things and we can always improve what we've done. Like I said, the council has not approached the Welsh Government for assistance to date, but we're open to those discussions. I understand that they have had advice from Public Health Wales and officials have been in touch with council officers. We know that the council have now handed over responsibility and potential enforcement actions to NRW, and when the enforcement paperwork has been served, we will continue to work with NRW and the council and the local community to ensure that incidents like this do not happen again.