11. The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 21) Regulations 2021

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 7:03 pm on 14 December 2021.

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Photo of Rhun ap Iorwerth Rhun ap Iorwerth Plaid Cymru 7:03, 14 December 2021

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Thank you to the Minister. We will be supporting these new regulations today. They are very sensible at a time that is clearly a dangerous one during this pandemic. It is important that we do the fundamentals right and, of course, isolation is one of those fundamentals and we need to be quite strict on that at this point. So, I welcome this change that appears to us to be proportionate to the new threat that we are facing. As a result of the new variant, my appeal is the same: whilst hoping, as I said earlier, that we will not need to take strict measures in terms of introducing broad-ranging restrictions on individuals and society between now and Christmas, I do believe that it's important as a matter of principle that if there is an intention to bring those forward, we as a Senedd do have an opportunity to gather virtually in order to scrutinise and vote on that too. Thank you.