Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:29 pm on 16 June 2021.
Because this year's funding is by not adequate by a long way. The work so far is very slow, and the costs so far do not count the costs of hiring scaffolding, hiring hoists and so forth, never mind the cost of the cladding itself. How will the Minister be able to assure us and assure the residents of those flats that that work will be completed as soon as possible? The Grenfell tragedy has brought a lot of things into this sphere, not only the safety of the way that we design, build and manage high-rise residential buildings, but also the way in which we listen to and, more importantly, respect the people who call those buildings home. We must acknowledge the tremendous pressure that many of those people are under. They have many questions that the Minister has to address as soon as possible, and here are a few of them.