Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:16 pm on 29 January 2019.
I'm very grateful for that answer, First Minister. One of the priorities that I think your Government should adopt is to protect the existing transport infrastructure. We had some very stormy weather over the weekend and this was particularly visible on the Old Colwyn sea defences and the promenade in my own constituency, which were further undermined by those storms this weekend and indeed were washing cars towards the danger of the open sea. I would be very grateful if you could bring forward some investment in order to address the problems with those sea defences. As you will be aware, they protect vital railway infrastructure and the A55 trunk road. These are not considered to be sufficiently high in terms of priority by your Government at the moment. Will you review this as soon as you can, because we're on borrowed time and we've been warned time and time again by engineers that these are looking at catastrophic failure and they're beyond their shelf life? We need action now before lives are lost.