5. Debate: COVID19 — Unlocking our Society and Economy: Continuing the Conversation

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:24 pm on 20 May 2020.

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Photo of Huw Irranca-Davies Huw Irranca-Davies Labour 4:24, 20 May 2020

Diolch, Llywydd. Thank you for a few moments to contribute to this debate. First of all, I'd like to take as my keystone for this contribution a word that Paul Davies, the leader of the Welsh Conservative group in the Senedd, used earlier on in reference to this, which is the matter of hope. He said that people need hope through milestones and timescales. Actually, I'm not sure that that is correct. What people need is hope through seeing a Government that takes a careful, evidence-led, considered and cautious approach to easing the lockdown, whilst watching the behaviour of this virus that is still out there and that we still haven't seen the back of and won't for some time.