Plaid Cymru will support this LCM, but I too am having some difficulty in understanding how the Welsh Government decides when it’s appropriate for the UK Government to legislate in devolved areas, because there’s no reason in my view why we couldn’t have legislated ourselves on this issue. And as a member of an opposition party who’s a spokesperson on this issue, it’s very frustrating for me to see Welsh Ministers and Ministers in Westminster presenting us with some fait accompli in the Senedd that we can either accept or reject. Now, I would have liked to have tried to influence the content of what’s being discussed here, but, of course, it is a fix agreed by Ministers rather than us as Assembly Members here having a right, as we should have, to scrutinise these proposals in the detail that they deserve.

Now, the Welsh Government has said that legislative pressures emerging because of Brexit mean that that has to be prioritised before some domestic legislation. I understand that issue, but there’s no evidence of that kind of legislation coming before us here in this Senedd as yet. And we hear Ministers and the Counsel General saying that he’s eager, and the Government is eager, to build a co-ordinated body of Welsh law, and the Minister herself has said that she wants to see Welsh legislation made here in Wales, but then we don’t do that when the opportunity arises. And if we can’t legislate ourselves on this issue—it’s a short Bill, it is a two-clause Bill, it includes narrow provisions that are non-contentious—under what circumstances will we ever legislate on an issue such as this?