8. Plaid Cymru Debate: The food sector

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:55 pm on 2 December 2020.

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Photo of Llyr Gruffydd Llyr Gruffydd Plaid Cymru 5:55, 2 December 2020

(Translated)

Thank you very much, Llywydd. May I thank everyone who's contributed to this debate? I think we have had a constructive debate in a good spirit, but one that's clearly highlighted many issues that need to be resolved, and I'm very pleased to hear the contributions made by everyone.

I'll just deal with the amendments first of all. I'm afraid the Government amendment lost me after the first two words, 'delete all', which is a pity, because there are clauses within the amendment that I could agree with, but of course I don't agree with them at the expense of Plaid Cymru's original motion, so we won't be supporting that. That'll be no surprise to Government. There is an irony that the Government is tabling an amendment calling on the Government to do certain things, but that's the nature of these amendments, I suppose.

We would be happy to support the Conservative amendment. I think that they're right that we do need to emphasise supporting local food and drink and recognise the role of tourism and also promoting Welsh foods abroad, which is crucially important, but there is an irony there that the Conservatives on the one hand are calling for the promotion of food and drink abroad, whilst on the other hand are pulling us out of our biggest market. There we are; a few other Members have referred to Brexit during the course of the debate.