00:00How will the Counsel General ensure that the Cabinet Secretaries will deliver on Government priorities?
00:05Thank you for the question. It remains the responsibility of the relevant portfolio Cabinet Secretary
00:10to lead delivery of the Government's priorities.
00:12My role will be to provide additional capacity to support my Cabinet colleagues
00:16by bringing people together across Government to find innovative ways of driving delivery of our priorities at greater pace.
00:22Minister, it is good to see that after 25 years, the Welsh Labour Government have finally decided
00:27that they need to deliver for the Welsh public, and appointed a Minister for Delivery.
00:32As we've seen, house building targets missed, NHS waiting lists getting longer,
00:38and education standards dropping—not the sort of delivery that the Welsh public were hoping for.
00:43So I'm very interested to learn how your role will work, and how will you ensure that Cabinet Secretaries
00:49will deliver on their priorities, as set out by the First Minister?
00:52Because you've been supposed to have been delivering for 25 years,
00:55and I'm sure the public would love to know how you're going to deliver now.
01:00Well, thank you very much for that, because I'll tell you why I'm grateful for it.
01:04And you've made this mistake before.
01:06I would be more than happy to come with a list of Welsh Government achievements,
01:10which I'm happy to read out, Llywydd.
01:11The last occasion on which I started to do that, the Llywydd had to cut me off
01:18because I'd run out of time very significantly,
01:20because of the large number of things that we've delivered over the last 25 years.
01:24So, if the Conservatives would like to give me the opportunity to do that,
01:27again, I'd be more than grateful to take it.
01:30It would be a great pleasure.
01:31In fact, what we're talking about here is a very serious subject about trying to deliver
01:36in the face of serious, serious underfunding of public services,
01:40and a real cost-of-living crisis entirely brought on by the Conservatives,
01:44who are baying on the opposite bench, but really do not like it when I come back at them in that way.
01:50So, the absolute truth is that you cannot have decent public services
01:54without decent public service funding, which we have been deprived of for 14 years.
01:58What we are trying to do here is maximise the scarce resource we have
02:02to deliver on our promises for the people of Wales,
02:04something we have always done, and which is very scarce on the opposite benches.
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