Language Campaigner demands that all legislative powers concerning the Welsh language be devolved to Wales

Two days before the national assembly's legislative Committee No5 presents its report on the LCO (Welsh Language) to the Welsh Assembly Government Ffred Ffransis was released from Park Prison (Bridgend) today. As a result of his failure to receive any services in the Welsh language while he was there Ffred Ffransis has called on the scrutinising committee to demand that ALL legislative powers concerning the Welsh language is fully devolved to Wales with no restrictions through the present LCO.Ffred Ffransis said:"The difficulty to receive any kind of forms or Welsh language service within Parc Prison shows clearly how silly it is to try and construct a very complex LCO that is only relevant to limited parts of the private sector. This prison is run by a private company for the benefit of the public sector. It's status under the law would be unclear, and this is only one example amongst thousands of potential difficulties. It's quite obvious that the simple answer is to transfer ALL legislative rights for the Welsh language to the Assembly through the LCO. Then we can have a democratic discussion in the National Assembly about how these new rights should be used. We call on the National Assembly to make a simple announcement about this tomorrow."

Ffred Ffrancis: all legislative powers for Welsh should be transferred to National Assembly - Eurolang.com - 05/06/09