Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 1:55 pm on 3 October 2018.
Thank you. You're quite right, initially, I am supporting a voluntary approach and I'm making this feasible through the grant support that I just mentioned, because I was told by some of the smaller slaughterhouses that one of the barriers for introducing CCTV was finance, so it's taking away a large chunk of those funding concerns. I think a voluntary approach is more likely to succeed in achieving the goal of having effective CCTV coverage because I think then the slaughterhouses themselves will take a positive decision. I've had some very interesting discussions with owners of some of our smaller slaughterhouses. I visited with the Presiding Officer one in her constituency in Tregaron and had some very robust and interesting discussions. So, in answer to the question of have I ruled out making CCTV mandatory in the longer term, no, I haven't. I think the uptake of the funding that we've just announced will have an influence on whether I do that.