4. Debate on a Statement: Draft Budget 2020-21

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:10 pm on 7 January 2020.

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Photo of Huw Irranca-Davies Huw Irranca-Davies Labour 4:10, 7 January 2020

Because the failure of successive Governments, but including the current Conservative Government, to be able to deliver a consensus in Westminster means that we are going to have to take imaginative, creative and difficult decisions about how we fund not just health, but health and social care together. One of the decisions, Darren, we will have to make as responsible grown-up statespeople is whether we think there is sufficient money in the system in order to give the terms and conditions that people deserve on the front line in order to deliver affordable and quality social care. Now, if you're not willing to have that discussion, then I'm afraid—[Interruption.] Then I'm afraid you are writing off generations of people.