11. Plaid Cymru Debate: Cost of living

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:53 pm on 21 September 2022.

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Photo of Heledd Fychan Heledd Fychan Plaid Cymru 4:53, 21 September 2022

I would like to begin just by echoing Sioned Williams's calls. If we're serious about tackling this emergency, then we must support what the proposals are here. And I would like to dispute Peter Fox's assertion that our motion is party political. It isn't. It offers practical steps that we can take here now. If anything is party political, it's your amendment, which lists what the UK Government have been doing, and also, the Labour amendment is also a list of things that have been taken, not additional things we can do, because the steps that have been taken by both Governments aren't going far enough, and there is more we can do. We have to accept that political decisions are responsible for this crisis, and we must take into account that there are things that are within our control here, and the list that we have in our motion should be supported by everybody, if we're acknowledging the scale of the crisis.