13. Legislative Consent Motion on the Building Safety Bill

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:02 pm on 29 March 2022.

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Photo of Rhys ab Owen Rhys ab Owen Plaid Cymru 6:02, 29 March 2022

(Translated)

This process is doing nothing to simplify our devolved settlement or our legal system, a system and settlement that even the previous Lord Chief Justice Thomas of Cwmgïedd, one of the most talented legal minds of our age, said that even he found impossible to understand, not to mention members of the public. There is a specific example here of complicating our justice system further, with the Bill establishing the new housing ombudsman system in England, with the Minister in Wales asking us to be part of this new system for England. Another opportunity was lost here—and I'm looking at my colleague the Counsel General—to extend the boundaries of the devolution settlement and to use our Welsh tribunals.