00:00As you're a new First Minister, the third First Minister now that sat in post while
00:05this transition board has been in place, can you explain why the Welsh Government has failed
00:09to support the transition board that supports workers in Port Talbot?
00:12Well, I've never heard such nonsense in my life.
00:15Absolutely.
00:16Let me just say that your Government, your Government said they'd put that money on the
00:24table, they put the money, and then they didn't spend it.
00:26Exactly.
00:27They didn't spend it.
00:28They sat there for months on end, and you know this because you're a member of the board.
00:32You know this, you're a member of the board, and I was really pleased that the Secretary
00:37of State for Wales was able to unlock that.
00:40There are a few arguments to be made over the responsibility of the steelworks and the
00:45aftermath with both the UK and Welsh Governments having a stake in the situation, and the Welsh
00:50Government claim they are doing what they can to help.
00:54We're putting a huge amount of support into supporting those Tata workers.
00:59The React and the Communities for Work programme are there, they're supporting, we have these
01:04people already, 716 of them, already benefiting from the personal learning account, reskilling
01:13and upskilling themselves.
01:16A few community hubs have been set up to help people around Port Talbot and other areas
01:20with a lot of former steelworks employees, with many people seeing it as too little,
01:24too late.
01:25But Eluned Morgan thinks there is plenty of help between now and when the next furnace
01:29reopens in a few years' time.
01:31We are absolutely determined to see the opening of the electric arc furnace, which we hope
01:37will allow people to work in the steel industry in future in that area.
01:45The real problem is that we had this gap between closing of our furnaces and the opening
01:51of the electric arc furnace, and you're quite right to refer to the support the community
01:57has put in place.
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