Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:47 pm on 13 November 2019.
Just as someone who stood down as a councillor in 2017, having served a year serving out my term as a councillor while an Assembly Member, I have to say that I disagree. I found that some of the decisions that we took here with regard to local government—the local government White Paper discussions, for example—it made sense to separate out—very much separate out—those different roles. And, of course, you could take a role as a Cabinet member in a local authority and a member of the Welsh Government, and you could have those four roles that he's identified. I think that that would be absurd. But, actually, if we look at the basics of it, being a councillor and being an Assembly Member, I really feel, having had that experience, that those two roles do not mix.