Diolch, Llywydd. I entirely agree with Carwyn Jones that current arrangements for dispute resolution are inadequate, like so much of the inter-governmental machinery in the United Kingdom. It will come under greater pressure in the future as a result of Brexit, and as report after report of select committees at the House of Commons and the House of Lords and committees here have reported, the current machinery simply cannot bear the weight of the issues that Brexit is producing for the United Kingdom. What we need, then, is a set of arrangements that are based on principles, parity of esteem, parity of participation, the principle that disputes are always best avoided where they can be. Those principles should lead to a set of rules, and those rules should have within them an element of independent expertise and arbitration.

Llywydd, Members will be, I think, glad to know that in the work that is being carried out under the JMC plenary, and that the former First Minister helped to get started, Wales is taking the lead in drawing up the principles for future inter-governmental relations. And as we saw in the inter-governmental agreement, if you get those principles right, then the practicalities of a dispute resolution system are always likely to be more robustly put in place.