a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/vaughanroderick/2009/07/ffair_haf.html" target="_blank"Vaughan Roderick has details/a of a stormy meeting of the Assembly's Finance Committee today that, once it had slipped into private session became more and more confrontational.br /br /The source of the disagreement was the Economy and Transport Minister, Ieuan Wyn Jones and his famed reluctance to be scrutinised. The Finance Committee has been trying to get their hands on a document relating to the Minister's transport policy a href="http://peterblack.blogspot.com/2009/06/ministers-with-egg-on-their-face.html" target="_blank"for some weeks now/a and for a time it looked as if they were going to get their way.br /br /The plan was that the document would be released this Monday 13th July so that the Committee could consider it on Wednesday 15th and use it to finalise their report before recess. However, the Minister threw a spanner in the works this morning when it was revealed that publication had been put back until the very last day of term effectively delaying the Committee's further enquiries until September.br /br /This provoked some considerable anger amongst Committee members who, I understand were less than complimentary about the Deputy First Minister and his general competence. After the tea break a prominent Plaid Cymru member apparently accused other members of using the situation for political advantage and of seeking to undermine the One Wales Government. As if!br /br /It seems that Plaid Cymru have still not got used to the idea of effective scrutiny and some of their number at least believe that once in Government they should be above criticism. In any case the member concerned got his comeupance when his accusations were met, according to Vaughan, with the rather crude put-down that em"It's not this committee that's undermining the government it's your f***ing Minister". /embr /br /Rumours that this rebuke came from a Labour Assembly Member cannot at this stage be confirmed and because the Committee was in private session it will not appear on the record.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8266684-7373440752278940652?l=peterblack.blogspot.com'//div
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Undermining the Government
a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/vaughanroderick/2009/07/ffair_haf.html" target="_blank"Vaughan Roderick has details/a of a stormy meeting of the Assembly's Finance Committee today that, once it had slipped into private session became more and more confrontational.br /br /The source of the disagreement was the Economy and Transport Minister, Ieuan Wyn Jones and his famed reluctance to be scrutinised. The Finance Committee has been trying to get their hands on a document relating to the Minister's transport policy a href="http://peterblack.blogspot.com/2009/06/ministers-with-egg-on-their-face.html" target="_blank"for some weeks now/a and for a time it looked as if they were going to get their way.br /br /The plan was that the document would be released this Monday 13th July so that the Committee could consider it on Wednesday 15th and use it to finalise their report before recess. However, the Minister threw a spanner in the works this morning when it was revealed that publication had been put back until the very last day of term effectively delaying the Committee's further enquiries until September.br /br /This provoked some considerable anger amongst Committee members who, I understand were less than complimentary about the Deputy First Minister and his general competence. After the tea break a prominent Plaid Cymru member apparently accused other members of using the situation for political advantage and of seeking to undermine the One Wales Government. As if!br /br /It seems that Plaid Cymru have still not got used to the idea of effective scrutiny and some of their number at least believe that once in Government they should be above criticism. In any case the member concerned got his comeupance when his accusations were met, according to Vaughan, with the rather crude put-down that em"It's not this committee that's undermining the government it's your f***ing Minister". /embr /br /Rumours that this rebuke came from a Labour Assembly Member cannot at this stage be confirmed and because the Committee was in private session it will not appear on the record.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8266684-7373440752278940652?l=peterblack.blogspot.com'//div
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