Building Safety

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:35 pm on 18 October 2022.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:35, 18 October 2022

(Translated)

Llywydd, it is important, as I explained, to keep the two issues separate. When we're talking about legislation, we're not talking about what we are doing for people in the current situation; that is responded to through the funding that we have allocated and put on the table and the system that is currently ongoing. That doesn't depend on a change to the law. We are changing the legislation for the future, to create a new system to help people to avoid the problems that some people are currently facing. We have drawn down powers, as I said. I know that Plaid Cymru opposes every time we do that. So we have drawn down powers to Wales, when we had an opportunity to do that. We are going to legislate during this term, and, in the meantime, for those people who are suffering today, because of the problems that have arisen already, we are dealing with those issues with the funding and with the work that is currently being done.