7. Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Welsh language

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:59 pm on 1 March 2023.

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Photo of Laura Anne Jones Laura Anne Jones Conservative 4:59, 1 March 2023

Diolch. Thank you, Minister, and Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus. I just wanted to just ask you about—. Everyone here, I think, wants to see Welsh language spoken more across Wales, but I'm wondering how we do that when we have a teacher retention and recruitment crisis at the moment, which also means that we can't attract those Welsh-speaking, core-subject-teaching teachers into our Welsh-medium schools, and, if we want to develop those Welsh-medium schools, which I think all parties have said that they want to see, how are we going to do that when we can't get the teachers into those Welsh-medium schools at the moment, speaking Welsh and teaching those core subjects? Thank you.