Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:51 pm on 2 February 2021.
With respect, First Minister, I'd agree with you that one pollution incident is one too many, and as someone who is involved in the agriculture industry, I want to see an industry that has as clean a bill of health as possible. But I go back to the point that I've said to you; I've offered you examples where the Minister is on the record as saying that these NVZ regulations would not be introduced while the pandemic was in existence—not once, not twice, but seven times in response to questions in the Plenary that I have a direct record of here. You say that
'When we make a promise, we know in the Labour party that we have to keep it.'
I would suggest that when a Minister of your Government makes such a commitment on the floor of the Plenary, that is a promise, and this promise is being broken. There is no dispute about pressing down on pollution incidents and making sure we bear down on the people who break the regulations, but when the Minister's made such a commitment, and you have made such a statement that when the Labour party makes a promise it has to keep it, surely these promises have to be kept, and we have to come to the end of the pandemic before these regulations are implemented.