One committee too many?

The old adage is that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. What then are we to make of the wish list of 21 recommendations by the Assembly’s Enterprise & Learning Committee which include one for a £5bn light railway system for Wales?

Presumably the same members making these recommendations were around when IWJ announced that there was not enough cash in government coffers to finance a new M4 distributor road at Newport. No doubt all of them have done the obligatory hand-wringing over about looming cuts in public spending and how their constituencies will be affected.

Yet another report stating the screamingly bloody obvious that the level of investment in track & infrastructure in Wales stands somewhere between piss-poor and non-existent is one thing. Adding suggestions that billions of public funding can diverted into new schemes merely raises the question as to whether Wales can continue to afford a surfeit of committees in Cardiff Bay with far too much time on their hands.

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(JX)