Part of 3. Topical Questions – in the Senedd at 2:49 pm on 28 November 2018.
I think you make a very important point around capacity and their budget. I've obviously been scrutinised this year on the budget and you will see that we are making every effort we can to ensure they receive the funding they have. In the last five years, as NRW have brought the work and the responsibilities of the three previous organisations together, they did have a target of saving £158 million, and they're well on course to deliver even more than that. So, I think it is about balance, and I appreciate that legislation Welsh Government have brought forward has required more from NRW, and those are certainly conversations that I'm having with the interim chair and the chief executive on a monthly basis, along with the Minister for Environment. I don't want them to come to a point where that is the case, and we will make sure that that does not happen.