Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:45 pm on 18 June 2019.
But, Minister, you yourself have identified this as a huge vacuum five years ago. Where have you been? The committee itself says that we are still as far away from delivering equality in terms of language choice as we were at the beginning of this Assembly. There's been no progress.
And may I turn to another issue that is centrally important to the future of the language, namely employment? In those areas where the Welsh language is the community language, among the major employers are our universities, and we have heard recently about the grave financial problems at Trinity Saint David and at Bangor. Now, in the past, when we have raised problems within individual universities, your Government has said, 'Well, they're independent organisations and we can't intervene.' Given how grave the situation is now and how grave the financial crisis is within the sector, could I ask you to confirm whether you, as the UK Government has declared, would allow a university institution in Wales to go bust?