13. Legislative Consent Motion on the Building Safety Bill

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:19 pm on 29 March 2022.

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Photo of Alun Davies Alun Davies Labour 6:19, 29 March 2022

It's quite something to be told to be brief by Lee Waters, isn't it? You say that you needed to get this onto the statute book as quickly as possible, but that, I'm afraid, Minister, simply is not true. There are procedures in place in the Senedd to enable the Government to get its business through more quickly when that is required, and the Senedd has always taken a very pragmatic approach to that. We also know that the Government has continued its policy development work during the period of this Bill going through Westminster. So, what we were told last summer isn't what we're being asked to support today. So, we know that the Government were continuing to work on this and could have delivered a Bill to this place in the time that it's taken to reach this point today. So, that argument doesn't stand up to examination, I'm afraid.