7. Debate on the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee report: Inter-Institutional relations agreement between the National Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Government

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:54 pm on 6 March 2019.

Alert me about debates like this

Photo of Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan Labour 3:54, 6 March 2019

(Translated)

Thank you very much, Llywydd, and I'm pleased to confirm that the Welsh Government does support the motion and am pleased to report that we have worked very closely with the committee to develop this agreement before us. Now, before making any cormorants about the agreement itself, I want to set this in a broader context—the challenges that face us as a result of Brexit and to say, once again, what the Welsh Government’s position is in terms of the way in which the relationship between Governments should change. Now, in some months we will be celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the first Plenary meeting of the National Assembly. The Governments and the legislatures that are devolved are now a stable and permanent part of the constitution of the UK. But, the fact that the UK is leaving the European Union leads to totally new challenges for the relationship between the countries and to the constitutional arrangements of the UK. We have to remember and consider that the systems in place were already creaking long before the vote to leave the EU. There’s no way for them to sustain the additional pressure that the Brexit process has placed upon them.