1 March 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Papers to note
We've got a couple of papers to note. The first is a letter from the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd in relation to the Finance Committee's request to ensure that the Welsh Government's responses to the Finance Committee report on…
1 March 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to you all. It's great to able to chair this committee in the absence of my colleague Paul Davies, who I'm sure we all wish the very best for the treatment that he's currently undergoing. The only apology we have is from Paul today. Are there any…
1 March 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning. Welcome to this meeting of the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee, and a happy St David's Day to all of you.
28 February 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Escalation and further intervention to improve the quality of services in Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
You sacked them for doing that.
28 February 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Escalation and further intervention to improve the quality of services in Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
—if I may, Deputy Presiding Officer? Lots of these executives have a close working relationship with people, understandably, in your Government department, including, of course, the chief executive of NHS Wales. I want to know what the chief executive of NHS…
28 February 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Escalation and further intervention to improve the quality of services in Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Because that will be a third report pointing to problems in that executive team. Can I ask one final question—
28 February 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Escalation and further intervention to improve the quality of services in Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
'We found clear and deep-seated fractures within the Executive Team', 'we have significant doubt as to whether working relationships'— this is within the executive team—'are reparable'. There are 'significant problems with working relationships within the…
28 February 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Escalation and further intervention to improve the quality of services in Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I listened very carefully to your statement, Minister, and I didn't hear an apology to the people of north Wales for the failure of this Welsh Government to sort out the deep-seated problems in our health board in the…
28 February 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: Net-zero Skills Strategy
Can I thank the Minister for an advance copy of his statement? As you’ll know, we on these benches have been calling for you to bring forward your net-zero skills strategy for many months, so we’re finally glad that it has been published. Because you're quite…
28 February 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: The Innovation Strategy
Can I thank the Minister for his statement this afternoon? I'm very pleased to hear that this strategy has now been published—this document—and that there will be a delivery plan that is going to sit alongside it. You said, Minister, in your remarks there…
14 February 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: The Roads Review and National Transport Delivery Plan
There are three schemes that are referred to in my constituency in the roads review report, all of which, unfortunately, it's likely, appearing from the document, are going to be scrapped. Now, these are schemes that I've corresponded with you and your…
14 February 2023 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, can I call for a statement on the local government funding formula? Residents in my constituency are very concerned that Conwy County Borough Council has suggested that council tax may have to rise by up to 12.45 per cent, which obviously is in…
7 February 2023 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, can I call again for an oral statement on the investigation into the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board concerning the events that gave rise to the qualification of accounts for 2021-22 and the subsequent £122 million counter-fraud…
31 January 2023 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill
Just one further point, if I may, because I think this is an interesting discussion. This is part and parcel of unlocking opportunities into wider trade partnerships with blocs in the Asia-Pacific area.
31 January 2023 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill
I'm grateful to you for taking the intervention. Look, whenever a trade deal is negotiated, there are always going to be competing interests within each nation that is doing the negotiations, both pros and cons. What the UK Government has to do is to try to…
31 January 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Interim Report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
As the only party that seems to believe in the future of the whole of the United Kingdom, and Wales's integral place in it, it's my pleasure to be able to ask some questions in respect of your statement, Minister. The commission, as you will know, we regard…
31 January 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Minister, many people in north Wales will, of course, be very concerned to have read today's vascular report into the services provided by the Betsi Cadwaladr health board, and especially to learn that the coroner was not fully informed of four patient deaths…
31 January 2023 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, last Friday was Holocaust Memorial Day, and it was my honour to be able to welcome to the Senedd last week, along with many other colleagues, Hedi Argent, who of course is a Holocaust survivor, to the Senedd, who shared her experiences with us. As…
25 January 2023 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Reducing NHS pressures
I'm glad you've mentioned Margaret Thatcher, one of the greatest Prime Ministers this nation has ever had. Unlike your party and the Labour Party, she had never voted to cut an NHS budget. Under her premiership, the NHS budget rose above and beyond the…
25 January 2023 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Reducing NHS pressures
Will you take an intervention?
25 January 2023 , Plenary
Motion to elect a Member to a committee
I move.
25 January 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Well, of course, the way that the UK Government has acted in respect of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill is as is laid out in section 35 of the Act of Parliament. So, it's well within the normal rules, and the decision has not been taken lightly…
25 January 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
I'm grateful for that response, Minister. One of the key components, as you will know, of the proposals and plans for Senedd reform includes the mandatory zipping of candidates by gender on electoral ballot papers, in order to promote better gender equality…
25 January 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Diolch, Llywydd. Will the Minister provide an update on the Welsh Government's plans to bring forward a Senedd reform Bill?
25 January 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
Thank you for that response, Minister. Will you join me in congratulating the faith communities across Wales, who've been particularly effective partners, that have engaged with the warm hubs scheme, across the country, in every corner of Wales? I know that…
