7. Debate on the Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee Report: 'Fire safety in high-rise buildings'

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:24 pm on 16 January 2019.

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Photo of Julie James Julie James Labour 5:24, 16 January 2019

Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. First, my thanks to the committee for its very careful consideration of what is clearly a critical but also very complex subject. Following the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower, which a number of Members have referred to, and the myriad issues that have surfaced since, the Welsh Government has also been very deeply engaged in these matters. Our involvement has been at both a policy and a practical level. Throughout, our prime consideration has been that people living in high-rise residential buildings, whether in the private or social sectors, must be as safe as they and we should be entitled to expect, as has been referred to by a large number of Members, most latterly Jenny Rathbone.