7. Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Independent Living Grant

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:12 pm on 13 February 2019.

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Photo of Helen Mary Jones Helen Mary Jones Plaid Cymru 5:12, 13 February 2019

Well, talk about shocking hypocrisy. I have to say that I have got, as we all have, deep concerns about the way the Labour Government has handled this here, but I am not going to take—and nor would I expect the Welsh Labour Government—any lessons from any Conservative when it comes to the administration of benefits to disabled people. My colleague Leanne Wood has just rightly described it as an absolute scandal, and I frankly—though I have every respect for Mark Isherwood as an individual—find it very, very difficult to take those messages from him. I know he absolutely believes them himself, but the party in whose name he sits in this place conducts themselves very differently at the other end of the M4 corridor, and I will happily take an intervention from Mark Isherwood.