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Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:59 pm on 7 March 2023.

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Photo of Samuel Kurtz Samuel Kurtz Conservative 1:59, 7 March 2023

First Minister, I have many happy memories from working aboard the Stena Europe and the Lynx sailing from Fishguard to Rosslare in the early 2010s when I was still a student. Much of the chatter and the talk below deck and in the galley then was that the consolidation of the two ports in Pembrokeshire was to be forthcoming in that time. Since then, in the last month, we've heard Irish Ferries being very tight-lipped around their future, causing great concern to constituents of mine and crew onboard the ferry in terms of their future of sailing from Pembroke Dock to Rosslare. Are the Welsh Government aware of any plans to consolidate the two ferry services out of one port so that there is only one set of sailings from Pembrokeshire to Rosslare? Diolch.