00:01Our Senate members have spent the last three weeks on Easter recess.
00:04They've been up to things in the background, but this is our first chance for a little while to hear from them at First Ministers' Questions.
00:10I'm here outside the Senate, but our members are actually just next door in Tihil.
00:16They'll be here while renovation work preparing for an expanded Senate takes place, so it might look a little different than usual.
00:22We've still got plenty on the docket this week with welfare reform to childcare,
00:26but first up, we're hearing from Plaid Cymru leader Threenap Yodworth, who has taken the chance to get to the bottom of the steelworking industry in the UK.
00:33When a few weeks ago, Scunthorpe Steelworks was nationalised, saving thousands of jobs, but the same didn't happen for poor Talbot last year.
00:40Questions have been raised extensively over why emergency legislation could be passed on the other side of the border,
00:45while poor Talbot has been left with thousands being made redundant.
00:49Today is my first opportunity to be able to question the First Minister after the emergency session at Westminster in the recess
00:54to safeguard, at least in the short term, virgin steelmaking in British Steel's Scunthorpe plant.
01:00I visited Port Talbot in the days after and saw deep anger at Labour's betrayal of the steelworkers there,
01:07who lost their jobs as their blast furnaces were closed.
01:11We even had Labour MPs from Wales having their pictures taken to saving British steel placards on the day of the Scunthorpe debate.
01:19But when it came to Port Talbot, nothing.
01:21Listen, let me make it clear that I understand the concerns of the local population.
01:27Port Talbot, Llanwern, other places, Scotland have been going through a really tough time for, not just in the past year,
01:35but for a prolonged period of time. There's been a Damocles sword hanging over the steel sector for a very long time.
01:43A recent welfare reform bill from the UK government has sparked massive outcry across the country.
01:48And the plied leader says that a disproportionate number of Welsh people will be affected by the changes.
01:53So it wants to know that the First Minister is doing what she can to help people while her counterparts in the UK are pushing forward with the move.
02:00Can the First Minister give an assurance that no Labour MP from Wales will vote for any reforms which impoverish the vulnerable in Wales?
02:09And can she clarify whether, as the leader of the Labour Party in Wales, it will be her or Keir Starmer instructing Labour MPs from Wales how to vote?
02:20Well, that's a daft question. Have I heard one? Look, we are going to engage seriously on the welfare reform issues.
02:33We think we've got a really good model when it comes to how welfare reform should work.
02:39I think we've proved that in relation to our youth unemployment approach and the fact we have half the levels of youth unemployment compared to England.
02:47I think there's some lessons there that can be learned.
02:50Look, I work with our Labour group in the Senate. I do not control the Labour group in Westminster.
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