Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:00 pm on 12 February 2019.
Well, Llywydd, I recognise nothing in what the Member has said about the proposal that we will bring forward. We will bring forward a proposal to remove the defence of reasonable chastisement. No adult can be hit in this country, and such a defence mounted; why should a child be allowed to be hit and then that defence brought forward? This is the position that exists already in countless countries across the globe, countries where none of the entirely scaremongering possibilities that the Member identifies have happened, and none of which we expect to see happen here in Wales.