FM told Covid-19 review plans are 'not good enough'published at 15:09 GMT
First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth has been told his government's plans to hold a review into Wales' Covid-19 response is "simply not good enough" for families of people who died during the pandemic.
Reform's Welsh leader Helen Jenner made the remark during a fiery section at First Minister's Questions (FMQs) in the Senedd, accusing ap Iorwerth of failing to keep a promise for a full inquiry, asked whether it meant he was "becoming Wales' answer to Sir Keir Starmer".
The first minister said his party Plaid Cymru would deliver what it said in its manifesto, saying he was "totally convinced... that this is the best way to provide the answers that we owe the people of Wales, and the victims and their families".
Elsewhere at FMQs on Tuesday:
- Welsh Labour leader Ken Skates accused the first minister of "looking at snatching milk from schoolchildren", over a government consultation on whether a dedicated scheme should continue in Wales
- Welsh Conservative leader in the Senedd Darren Millar asked the first minister to look again at the case for a Wales-wide inquiry on grooming gangs, in addition to the existing UK inquiry, to which ap Iorwerth said he would "look again" at the issue if the existing inquiry was inadequate
- Ap Iorwerth said that despite his meeting with Prime Minister Andy Burnham in Glasgow last week - which he had said led to progress on Wales' spending and borrowing powers - arguments on devolving justice powers and policing "isn't moving at the pace the Welsh government would want to see".
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