, Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with nursing directors
I'm going to go onto the triangulated approach, but before I do that, I want to ask for your views about the messages around nursing—the positive messages, that is, around nursing, rather than the headlines about where things go wrong, which they do…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Royal College of Nursing Wales
My final question was to tie in the recruitment—. Is the recruitment and retention policy that's been worked on, to provide flexible working, et cetera, et cetera, to retain people, is it tied in enough and does it cross-over enough with this legislation in…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Royal College of Nursing Wales
Thank you.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Royal College of Nursing Wales
Okay.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Royal College of Nursing Wales
Okay. Yes, fine.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Royal College of Nursing Wales
Section 25A sets out an overarching duty on local health boards and NHS trusts to have regard to the importance of providing sufficient nurses in all settings, but it isn't explicitly covered by the Act's reporting requirements. Is there sufficient clarity…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Royal College of Nursing Wales
Okay. Am I going on?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Royal College of Nursing Wales
No, but add.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Royal College of Nursing Wales
Can I just further probe there? You're saying that, to move forward, those indicators also need to change.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Royal College of Nursing Wales
Okay. So, you did start, Lisa, talking about those things that nurses do, with pressure ulcers, medication, falls and all of those things. But what I'm going to ask you is, whilst we acknowledge that is what nurses do, we've had some evidence questioning…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Royal College of Nursing Wales
No, we haven't.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Royal College of Nursing Wales
I'm going to go on now to 25B, which is why we were trying to hold back on those questions. You've talked already about skill mix. Are you confident that the 25B wards—that that produces the levels of skill mix that are required?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016: post-legislative scrutiny: evidence session with the Royal College of Nursing Wales
Except for I want to ask first of all if there are any barriers to the extension of the Act, because there's been some evidence that suggests that informatics systems would need further development. Do you have a view on that?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
I want to declare that a family member is a member of the Royal College of Nursing.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Where these things might meet, of course, is around the first question I asked, on Network Rail, especially in Wales, where you've got the railway hugging the coast—not ideal, but it is. I've come across many complications where those two bodies can be…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Until such time as we require the powers—is that right?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. So, is there an alternative to that—for example, a statutory pre-application discussion with the appropriate Crown authorities over any Crown land that's intended for use in that application?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. We heard from NIPA that, for Crown land, and I quote: 'The need to obtain the consent of the appropriate Crown authority should be limited to compulsory acquisition powers only, and not for other provisions in an order which relates to Crown land.'…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Yes. Yes, but I wasn't thinking in those terms, actually.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
We hear very often about ransom strips of land. Would this not be advantageous in those circumstances—you know, people recognising very early on, 'If I just hang onto this bit here, then the price goes up'?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
So, you're quite content. They raised concerns, they want it aired, and they did, as you say, mention section 65 working with section 72. I don't think they mentioned section 61. But you're quite content. Because, moving on, the National Infrastructure…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
I'm going to talk about consent orders and compulsory purchase right now. Network Rail raised concerns about section 72, which states an infrastructure consent order may require extinguishment of certain rights, restrictive covenants or removal of apparatus…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. Minister, I think this goes back to something you said earlier about the pre-application. Very often, people think the pre-application and all the noise that goes around it—and that's where the most noise is—does amount to what we're talking about now…
