2. Business Statement and Announcement

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:24 pm on 12 February 2019.

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Photo of Andrew RT Davies Andrew RT Davies Conservative 2:24, 12 February 2019

Organiser, could we have a statement or response to the Minister's commitment to do an environmental impact assessment on the Barry incinerator? This commitment was given by the Government back last February. We are in February of 2019 now—that's 12 months, believe it or not—and we still haven't had a response from the Minister as to whether she is going to carry out this assessment or insist that Natural Resources Wales carry out this assessment. Many residents, not unreasonably, are very concerned about this, and they see that the Government has turned their back on them. In particular, the previous First Minister indicated that such a decision would have been made by November of last year. It cannot be still sitting on someone's desk waiting for a decision to be taken. Surely, the decision has been taken. Can we now have that decision communicated so we know whether an environmental impact assessment will be undertaken?