9. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Air Quality

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:10 pm on 18 September 2019.

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Photo of Llyr Gruffydd Llyr Gruffydd Plaid Cymru 4:10, 18 September 2019

We've heard some of the statistics already listed. We know that Public Health Wales has said that air pollution is now a public health crisis second only to smoking, and this figure of 2,000 deaths a year is a startling figure. Maybe I and others are guilty of bandying this figure around so many times that you lose that sense of proportionality—2,000 deaths, or 40-odd deaths a week, from something that we could actually prevent. That's the reality. And of course—