Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:30 pm on 8 December 2021.
How then can we sit here—and I've heard this in the six months that I've been in the Chamber—how can we sit here and praise the Act for being radical and saying that it's the envy of the world, when it doesn't even give our citizens the rights to protect their local assets and to hold their public bodies and local government to account? The fact that people use phrases such as 'the envy of the world' routinely does not mean that it's true, and it doesn't mean that the law is perfect. We should, as a Senedd, be mature enough to recognise when a law is not good enough, and then be prepared to change it.