7. Statement by the Leader of the House and Chief Whip: Action on Disability: The Right to Independent Living

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:41 pm on 16 October 2018.

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Photo of Julie James Julie James Labour 4:41, 16 October 2018

Yes. Helen Mary Jones makes a lot of very good points there, and as I said in our debate on her legislative proposal, I'm very keen to see how the framework legislation currently fits together, what incorporating the convention directly may or may not do to that, and to work out a system that gives people the maximum benefit of all of that legislation in terms of their rights, and their ability to actually get the services and access that they want. So, I'm very much looking forward to our discussion about that. 

I'm very keen, Deputy Presiding Officer, to make sure that instead of layering things on top of each other, we actually make them into a seamless whole, so that people have an open and transparent, easily accessible and usable system that actually does make their lives better, which is what we're after here, and particularly emphasises to those people currently putting barriers in the way that that's not an acceptable mode of behaviour here in Wales.