Ron Davies, Secretary of State for Wales from 1997 to 1998, introduced devolution to Wales. He is known for the phrase “Devolution is a process and not an event.” He meant that the first settlement would not be the last, and that more powers would come to Wales over time.
In February 1999, The Irish Times quoted his fuller version: devolution “is a process. It is not an event and neither is it a journey with a fixed end-point.”