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Call for swift conclusion to Senedd alcohol investigation
An investigation should be “concluded swiftly” into allegations politicians were drinking alcohol on Senedd premises during the pub alcohol ban, Mark Drakeford says.
The Senedd Commission, the body which runs the institution, is currently investigating claims that three MSs, including the Conservative Senedd group leader Paul Davies, were drinking alcohol three days after the ban.
“There was a single member of staff on duty that evening,” the first minister says.
“I'm very anxious that this does not all result in that person carrying the can for what happened that evening.”
"The idea that the person, the staff member, was to blame seems to me completely incredulous and I very much hope that this does not head in that direction,” he adds.
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