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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you very much for your response, Minister. North Wales was devastated by storm Babet in late October, but particularly affecting Denbighshire, where fire services were called to attend seven flooding incidents and 11 primary and secondary schools were…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
6. What work is the Welsh Government undertaking to minimise flood risks for residents in Denbighshire? OQ60317
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Outcome of the ‘Rebalancing Care and Support Programme’ consultation
Thank you very much for your statement this afternoon, Deputy Minister. Much of the language surrounding rebalancing care and support sounds very positive; the move towards simplification, warm-worded, quality and social value are all welcomed, however, the…
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Business Statement and Announcement
Diolch, Deputy Llywydd. Can I have a statement from yourself, in your role as leader of the house and Minister for north Wales this afternoon, on the disappointing announcement of the permanent closure of the SeaQuarium on Rhyl promenade, which sadly will…
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Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: evidence session with the Chief Executive and interim Chair
Yes, it was just a bit of an extension on some of the culture things. Jack was talking about the Maelor hospital; in terms of Glan Clwyd, I was reading recently the comments from Mair Dowell, who you probably know about from her time in Glan Clwyd…
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Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: evidence session with the Chief Executive and interim Chair
How do you do that? How do you do that? How do you, directly, as yourself as the CEO, go about achieving that? Obviously, it's great, the ambition's great, but how do you develop that cutting edge to do something differently that others may have not been…
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Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: evidence session with the Chief Executive and interim Chair
In terms of doing things differently, because, obviously, you know, being a former employee of Betsi Cadwaladr, I think I worked under three or four chief executives in that time and I remember previous chief executive officers doing weekly newsletters to…
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Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: evidence session with the Chief Executive and interim Chair
Have you any points, Carol? It's obviously a big job.
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Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: evidence session with the Chief Executive and interim Chair
And just as a final question, if I may: obviously I've seen the change in direction since you took over as interim and now as permanent chief executive, and since you've come in as well, Dyfed, but where do you think that previous chief execs and chairs may…
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Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: evidence session with the Chief Executive and interim Chair
Just on that point, something I've wanted to ask as well was in terms of communications because, obviously, the board is subject to things like press releases and things that come out to the public like the Healthcare Inspectorate Wales reports, things that…
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Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: evidence session with the Chief Executive and interim Chair
Yes, the internal structures, the naming of it, all the public connotations that have happened over many years. Is that achievable in its current context?
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Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: evidence session with the Chief Executive and interim Chair
But can you do that with the existing structures in place, because, obviously, on the face of things, it's still Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, it's still under special measures from the Welsh Government. Is that achievable within the current…
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Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: evidence session with the Chief Executive and interim Chair
What are the measuring points, then, to coming out of special measures? Obviously, it's in a period of reform—you've identified that—but where's the end game? Where does that come to the point, and what's the qualifying criteria to say, 'Hey, look, we've…
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Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: evidence session with the Chief Executive and interim Chair
Thank you, Chair. I just want to dig in a little bit more into special measures and what it means. What does it mean? We talk a lot about special measures, publicly and in the press, and however that's portrayed, amongst politicians ourselves, and in the…
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Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: evidence session with the Chief Executive and interim Chair
How deeply are those felt then throughout the organisation? Are those cycles felt by—? I don't want to stereotype, obviously. Is that from your cleaners and your porters right up to the executive team, so everybody in that organisation is aware of the cycle…
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Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: evidence session with the Chief Executive and interim Chair
Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to dig in a little bit more about the cycles, and whether there's a reflection process based on the things that you've analysed during that cycle period. Is there a chance to go back, if things have maybe slipped through the…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Digital and AI technology in the NHS
I recognise, of course, the difficulties in delivering some technology, particularly as technology is a constantly moving subject, which constantly develops, but I don't think, at the same time, that that should kill ambition. We have to be thinking forwards…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Digital and AI technology in the NHS
Diolch, Deputy Llywydd. And I just want to start my remarks in closing today by thanking you for visiting Rhyl in my constituency on Friday to see the roll-out of e-prescriptions at Lakeside surgery and Wellington Road Pharmacy. Talking about invitations, my…
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Group 9: Stationary idling offence: fixed penalty (Amendments 65, 69)
Thank you, Minister. Would you accept the reality, though, that most cars made after about 2005 have a stop-start engine on them? So, you stick it in neutral, let the clutch go, and the car will cut out anyway without having to actively turn the engine off…
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Business Statement and Announcement
Can I have a statement from the Minister for Health and Social Services this afternoon regarding north Denbighshire community hospital in Rhyl, or the lack of north Denbighshire community hospital for my constituents in Rhyl, Prestatyn, Rhuddlan, Dyserth and…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: International Men's Day
I'm pleased to make some remarks in this important and substantial debate this afternoon, and I thank the Welsh Conservatives for tabling this timely motion this afternoon to mark International Men's Day, which falls on Sunday, 19 November. It's important to…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: International Men's Day
Thanks. What would you say, then, to the fact that health and social services and a lot of things around mental health have been devolved to Wales for 25 years?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: International Men's Day
Will you take an intervention, Mabon?
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Questions to the Senedd Commission
That's fine. Thanks.
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Questions to the Senedd Commission
Thank you for that response, Commissioner. I appreciate that. Ultimately, many Members have individuals living within their constituencies who do not have sufficient Welsh or English language to understand sometimes quite technical representations made on…
