Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:59 pm on 22 October 2019.
Thank you very much, acting Deputy Presiding Officer. Thank you very much for the statement today, Minister. There's much in it to agree with, although I will have to just say that I thought your end paragraph about Brexit was utterly ridiculous in this particular context. Yes, we will have challenges no matter what happens, in or out, but the situation we have today is a current situation that has been evolving over the last decades, decades when your Government have been responsible for trying to help to solve this issue. To suddenly land the end of your statement with an 'Oh, woe is me; this is all down to Brexit', I think, is ridiculous.