, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
The council notes that it's a high priority, that they're working on a number of anti-flooding schemes and have to comply with a range of statutory processes, and notes the complexity. So, like you said, it is urgent, and we are here to work on behalf of the…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
—such as this, which is really good. But, many statutory bodies are involved, and it takes a while to draw up plans and implement them, I understand that. Luke.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Thank you. Yes, some funding was made available, wasn't it, recently, for local authorities to do schemes—
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Thank you. Okay. So, we're going to close that petition and move on. Thank you. So, 3.3, P-06-1428, 'Stop the flooding in Caenant Terrace, Skewen NOW!' This was submitted by Susan Martin Kerslake, and 776 signatures were collected. Okay, could I invite…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Yes, okay. So, are Members in agreement? Yes. Okay. Vaughan.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Thank you for that summary, Peter. I tend to agree with you as well. Ken Skates has said that he has no plans to introduce road charging and, as you said, the WLGA has confirmed that only Cardiff, possibly, are looking at road charging. So, the petitioner…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Actually in that space, yes. Okay, is there anything else? Are you okay, going forward? You've got enough there to work on. So, again, I'd just like to thank the petitioner and we'll follow up those actions. So, item 3.2, P-06-1409, 'Cease all further…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Yes, we could ask. Recruitment and retention in rural areas, especially north Wales, is such a big issue. Many people will, like has been mentioned, work in Cardiff, Swansea, big city centres, and transport is more of an issue, isn't it, in rural areas as…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Well, I feel like, because we’re a petitions committee—. We’re discussing the merits of trying to deliver a health service as well, but I want to—. So, this has been submitted by somebody who feels the need to have Tywyn opened again, working again. It seems…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Part of the response is—. You’re asking where are they providing an alternative. It says here that the health board has increased work in the community, enabling patients to be cared for at home where possible, but, for a small number of patients needing more…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Okay. But it appears to me there seems to be a desire to keep this still going here, where they've tried to recruit, struggled to retain. I was on another committee where I think Audit Wales did a review of Betsi, and there were discussions about the survey…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Vaughan Gething.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
With experience in this matter. [Laughter.] It's very useful having—.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
So, now we move on to agenda item 3: updates to previous petitions. Item 3.1, P-06-1350, 'Re-open Dyfi Ward at Tywyn Hospital now', which is in Dwyfor Meirionnydd in north Wales. This was submitted by Jane Eleanor Seddon Barraclough, and there were a total of…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
So, again, I'd like to thank the petitioner, but I agree, now we can close this petition. Is everybody else in agreement with me and with Peter? Thank you. Okay.
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
I believe that, going forward, the County Surveyors Society are involved, working with local authorities, the Welsh Local Government Association, on the new guidance. And I really welcome that there is good partnership working now, going forward, working with…
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New Petitions
Thank you, Peter.
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New Petitions
Okay. I would like to mention the petitioner and all the work that she has done on behalf of the COVID-19 bereaved families. She's also written to the then health Secretary, also wrote an article on it, and the fact that she keeps raising the issue. So…
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New Petitions
Okay. Thank you. We've made a note of that, Vaughan. Thank you for that. Peter.
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New Petitions
Thank you, Rhys. Vaughan.
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Thank you once again to Vaughan Gething for your lived experience. [Laughter.] But no, you're right, we need to have targeted deadlines, don't we, to measure this. So, dates of when the trial will be finishing and the deadline of when the evaluation will…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Thank you both again.
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New Petitions
Okay.
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Scheeres. Simon Scheeres. Thank you, Vaughan. And he collected 5,339 signatures for this. So, I'd like to thank him for submitting this petition, a really important petition. So, actions going forward: to write to the health board regarding the pilot. We…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Okay, thank you. Sorry, I didn't name the petitioner: Simon—.
