7. Plaid Cymru Debate: Post-Brexit funding

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:54 pm on 25 May 2022.

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Photo of Darren Millar Darren Millar Conservative 4:54, 25 May 2022

I'm very grateful for you taking the intervention. I think you're quite right, actually, to raise the fact that it is regrettable, in my view, that Members of the Senedd are not part of the decision-making process in the way that MPs are when it comes to this new funding stream. But do you also accept that it's a matter of regret that with the Welsh Government's approach, I had no say in what was being spent in my own constituency, you had no say in what was being spent in your constituency either, in terms of the way that they were dealing out the cash that was available from the European Union. So, don't you think that that is perhaps—[Interruption.]—don't you think that that is perhaps, therefore, a lesson for the Welsh Government in the way that it handles grant funds in the future? Because I agree with you, I think it would be great to give more local people greater say, including us.