Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:11 pm on 16 November 2021.
Well, thank you for your comments. I always worry when someone starts off their speech with 'with the greatest respect', which then means they're going to proceed with absolutely no respect whatsoever. I also then get a bit worried when the person then says about a commission that is seven female to four male, that it's 'jobs for the boys', and I wonder when you wrote the speech whether you touched on this—not as fleet of foot as you might have liked to be. I've already answered the issue of cost. I really don't see a great deal of point in going over the old ground of the commission; we've well debated that. We have an electoral mandate for this commission to go forward, and I believe it is an incredibly timely commission that is being set up at this juncture in the constitutional future of the UK, of Europe, and the global situation in the world. Thank you.