17. Debate: Welsh Government Annual Report — Delivering our well-being objectives

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 7:12 pm on 12 July 2022.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 7:12, 12 July 2022

(Translated)

I thank Rhun ap Iorwerth. Of course, we want to co-operate with Plaid Cymru on everything that's in our agreement. As he said, we have started on that work quickly already, and I'm looking forward to December when we will have an opportunity to report on everything that's in the agreement fully. We have been talking today, Llywydd, about a number of things where we have already co-operated—council tax reform; only today, the finance Minister has announced a number of challenging possibilities and radical possibilities. But, if we are going to do things that are radical, we will have to do things that are challenging as well. That's the purpose of co-operation, to press ahead with those kinds of issues. Of course, the devolution journey is not over. But, when you work within Government, you have to focus on the things that we can do today, and not just talk about the things that we can't do. The Government's job, as we've shown in the annual report, is to use the powers and the responsibilities that we already have.