Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:33 pm on 15 May 2019.
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Dirprwy Lywydd. Thank you to all the Members that have taken part, and thank you to the Minister for his response. I have just a few seconds to respond. I think that I've made all the points that I wanted to make in my opening speech, but I think that there is widespread support for principles. I think that Michelle Brown is right to raise questions. I think that I could, if I had plenty of time, address a number of the questions that she had. But this is part of the wider discussion that we are having in building people's confidence in the developing and the emerging technology.
This is a debate on noting this proposal. I hope that the Assembly will vote positively to note this proposal today. Of course, legislation needn't be the only answer, but we have to keep considering legislation as a possible tool. I welcome signs of movement towards having a strategy. For example, when the low-carbon plan talks of wanting to move to a public fleet by 2025 that is zero-emission, what I want to know is how. When are we going to do it? How are we going to do it? That's why we need to move, with urgency, towards having a strategy, Wales-wide, with ultra-low vehicle emissions as a very clear focus, because it is going to be a very prominent part of our transport future.