Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:26 pm on 8 November 2022.
As I was saying, Janet, perhaps if you ever listen to anything I said, as opposed to reading out your pre-ordained speech, you would know that voting against these regulations will not stop the implementation of the Act—it will simply mean that the Act doesn't work as intended. So, that's an idiocy, quite frankly. If you were successful in stopping these regulations going through, you'd not stop the Act being implemented—you would simply stop it operating in the most efficient way possible.
The various things that you quote, I have to say, are a misrepresentation of what the Act actually says. If you have tenant who has damaged property, then, obviously, they aren't subject to the extended no-fault evictions—you can evict them for damaging the property. If you have a tenant who hasn't paid rent, they are not subject to no-fault eviction—you can evict them for not paying rent. What you're saying is an absolute nonsense, just to be clear.
Turning to the rather more practical, albeit very technical, comments made my colleague Alun Davies, just to be very clear, Alun, that we absolutely appreciate the work that's been done by the committee and the speed with which you've done it. And just to reiterate that to the extent possible, without making substantive changes to the version of the SI that has been laid before the Senedd, the draft SI has been adjusted to deal with the technical points that you raised. So, just to be clear, it will be corrected upon the making of the regulations.
In the light of that, Llywydd, I commend these regulations to the Senedd.