Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Economy – in the Senedd at 2:03 pm on 15 June 2022.
Well, there have been real challenges in the construction sector, and Dawnus and others have suffered real distress through that. My understanding is that there was proper due diligence done around all of the appointments, and I don't have any reason to support the allegations and the attacks that are made, by insinuation, in the Member's comments. If she has real evidence about the individual, and that individual's conduct, as opposed to an association with an enterprise that was ultimately unsuccessful, then I'd be really interested in hearing what those are. But, of course, if we just think back to one of Jack Sargeant's comments earlier about the consequences of failure, actually one of the things we need to do within our broader culture is not to have entirely the same stigma around businesses that don't succeed and people's ability to start again. I don't see people refusing to listen to Jamie Oliver on a whole range of things or to eat in his restaurants, despite the fact that he's had restaurants that have collapsed and gone under. So, there's a challenge here about what we expect from people when their businesses don't survive, how they treat their suppliers, yes, but equally what we then do in terms of the integrity of people to then undertake future enterprises and indeed their engagement with Welsh Government programmes.