16 December 2021 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session—Topical matters
Okay. I wanted to change the subject now to your preparations for rolling out universal free school meals for all primary school children. Farmers regularly tell us they will grow anything for which there is a market. So, what action is the Welsh Government…
16 December 2021 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session—Topical matters
Oh, I beg your pardon. Sorry.
16 December 2021 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session—Topical matters
Okay. Well, thank you. We'll look forward to those announcements. I just want to move on to the preparations that the Welsh Government—
16 December 2021 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session—Topical matters
Well, I completely support that. What about private landlords? Will there be a little bit more pressure on them to be renting homes that are not so inefficient in energy that it drives people into food poverty as well as fuel poverty?
16 December 2021 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session—Topical matters
I accept completely your entirely coherent answer, but could you just tell us a little bit more about how we're going to be able to accelerate the retrofit programme, given that there's absolutely no indication that energy prices are going to go down anytime…
16 December 2021 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session—Topical matters
I wanted to come back to the start of a conversation that you were having with Llyr Gruffydd, which is the winter fuel support scheme the Minister for Social Justice announced last month—£51 million. I'm sure the £100 per household for those on universal…
16 December 2021 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
COVID-19 recovery and winter pressures on public services
My concern is that statutory bodies are very good at risk assessing the state of provision in the middle of a pandemic, and the risk to staff as much as to users, but there's less emphasis on the risks involved in not reopening services, because most of these…
16 December 2021 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
COVID-19 recovery and winter pressures on public services
Thank you. My second question is what we can do to support those who've been worst affected by the pandemic, who are people with learning difficulties, people who are suffering from dementia and their carers, who during lockdown have been left to their own…
16 December 2021 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
COVID-19 recovery and winter pressures on public services
Okay. Just finally on that point, how do you think we can really ramp up the numbers of Welsh-speaking childcare and early education workers so that two and three-year-olds, who will learn Welsh without even thinking about it, can really get that opportunity…
16 December 2021 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
COVID-19 recovery and winter pressures on public services
In terms of raising the quality of provision across the piece, how do you envisage the statutory sector working more closely with the voluntary and private sectors so that we have a community approach to meeting the needs of all children?
16 December 2021 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
COVID-19 recovery and winter pressures on public services
I want to move on to the proposal to expand childcare to two-year-olds. In the context of the shortage of provision that already exists, particularly in rural areas, as well as for children with disabilities, how does the Welsh Government plan to increase the…
16 December 2021 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
COVID-19 recovery and winter pressures on public services
Thank you.
16 December 2021 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
COVID-19 recovery and winter pressures on public services
Yes. I just wanted to go back to the situation we'll be facing in January. Can we assume that however difficult and challenging it is for schools in terms of the numbers of staff available that it'll still be possible to have vulnerable children coming into…
16 December 2021 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
COVID-19 recovery and winter pressures on public services
Thank you. I just wanted to pick up on the use of pharmacists. You said you want to make better use of optometrists. What are the barriers to more intensively using pharmacists particularly for this vaccination programme, given that there are some people who…
14 December 2021 , Plenary
The Curriculum for Wales—Relationships and Sexuality Education Code
I respectfully disagree with Darren Millar. I think it's really, really terrible for children's rights if they don't know what's happening to them when they're going through puberty. Why is it that so many girls have no idea what is going to happen to them…
14 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Building Safety
Thank you, Llywydd. Minister, I know you're aware of my enthusiasm for tightening Part L of the building regulations so that all new buildings are fit for purpose in our climate-threatened world. It's the biggest investment that most people ever make, and…
14 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Shaping Wales Future—Laying national milestones, revised national indicators and publishing a Future Trends report
—it's the beginning of the debate, but, I think, if you can say a bit more on how we're going to really improve the health and well-being of young people that would be helpful.
14 December 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Shaping Wales Future—Laying national milestones, revised national indicators and publishing a Future Trends report
Thank you, Minister, for your statement. Neither of us is likely to be around to be scrutinised by 2050, so—. Even your 2035 target for improving the healthy behaviours of young people is 13 years away. So, I'd like to ask you to expand a little bit on how…
14 December 2021 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you. First, I'd like to refer Members and the public to my declared shares that I still have in AstraZeneca, although not for much longer. I'm disappointed that neither AstraZeneca nor Pfizer have responded to my request for an explanation as to why, in…
14 December 2021 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
3. What discussions has the Welsh Government had with the UK Government regarding waiving the patents of COVID vaccines? OQ57377
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
All right. Well, we've—[Inaudible.]—the structure. Thank you. There's probably not much more we can say on this, except that we need to sort it out.
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Anybody else got a point on this matter?
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Okay. All right. But I think the serious thing—. So, I'm very pleased to hear from Clare that you think it's going to be co-produced. That's great, but that needs to be the vision for everything in the future, and we need to kill off a load of these…
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
All right—[Inaudible.]—
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 4: blue carbon and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
I imagine you go to Pembrokeshire, don't you?
