We’re hearing from the Senedd, where devolution election promises and more controversy for the first minister are on the agenda.
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00:00Could you provide an update today on progress with the devolution of the administration of UK welfare benefits to Wales?
00:08Thank you. It's a conversation I look forward to taking forward if we have a change in government across the UK,
00:17if we have a UK Labour government. There's a clear manifesto pledge to devolve employment support funding to Wales
00:24and I think we'd be able to make a great use of that.
00:28The partnership that we seek is one where we do not have the legitimacy of this place questioned or undermined,
00:35but we have a partnership that recognises the path of devolution is something where we have more ability,
00:41particularly with an expanded Senate coming into being.
00:44Opposition members though cannot forget the turmoil both the First Minister and the Senate has gone through in the last few months
00:51and Tory Natasha Rashka still wants answers from Bourne Gething over what he's going to do to fix the ongoing issues.
00:57The First Minister's credibility was dealt another blow by the Channel 4 documentary revealing the company
01:02which donated £200,000 to the First Minister's leadership campaign is under suspicion of tax evasion.
01:08Let's not forget the First Minister's lost a vote of no confidence.
01:11This really is incredible for the first hundred days in office.
01:14So First Minister, do you agree with me that these scandals are clearly distracting the Welsh Government
01:19from tackling the real issues that matter, such as supporting low-income households across Wales?
01:24And when are you going to do the decent thing and just resign?
01:30So, if you look at what's actually happened with low-income families here in Wales,
01:34as I said, approximately £5 billion of support in the last two years.
01:38That makes a real difference in how we can support people to claim what's theirs.
01:42It's also important about putting money into people's pockets.
01:45All this done in the teeth of a Conservative Government that has cut our budget successively over the last 14 years.
01:52But more than that, over 900,000 children were estimated to be put into poverty
01:57because of what's happened to people's wages.