Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 1:29 pm on 17 June 2020.
I remember, the first week I was elected to the Senedd, Oscar taking a number of new Members out for dinner and insisting that he must pay. And that's when I first got to really know Oscar, and those of us in the tea room will so often remember that phrase, 'This is on me', in the tea room. Oscar was just such a generous man in his words and in his deeds.
What I do recall about Oscar so often is the big slap on the back that he would give me. He used to give me an extra big slap on the back somehow when he would walk past me in the corridor or as I walked into the Chamber, but, so often, it was when I was walking from the kitchen on the third floor back to my office with a cup of tea in my hand, and the end of that story I don't need to tell.
But Oscar will so, so be missed, and of course he'll also be missed on our committee, the committee that I'm privileged to chair, here in the Senedd. Oscar will be sorely, sorely missed. He was just such a generous person, and my thoughts, of course, to Firdaus and Natasha above all. But you will be sorely missed, Oscar. Diolch, Llywydd.