10 July 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
Will you take an intervention?
10 July 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
Yes. So, the Labour Party in London are diluting what you've promised here.
10 July 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
You know the three things you've just mentioned there now, you do realise that it's a dilution of what the Government here and what Labour in Wales have promised. So, it's not really at the level where you, as a party, would want to see it. The Labour Party…
10 July 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
There's no doubt that the situation with teacher numbers is critical, particularly so in the Welsh-medium sector, where the situation is even worse. The fact that Aberystwyth University has decided not to continue with its teacher training course is only…
10 July 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
That response from the Cabinet Secretary demonstrates that the Government is looking to meet some of people's physical needs, but people have cultural needs and social needs and other needs too. Of course, the easiest way of ensuring that all these needs of…
3 July 2024 , Plenary
Short Debate: Safer skin: The role of schools in preventing skin cancer
Thank you very much, Sioned, for bringing this debate forward. It was very interesting to hear the recommendations on how much sunscreen to apply. My children will be very pleased to hear that, because we tend to lather them with too much and they look like…
3 July 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
With their disastrous hard Brexit that sent drug prices soaring, a cruel migration policy that's compounded workforce pressures, squandering billions on defective, crony-supplied PPE, a prolonged real-terms erosion in NHS pay and 14 years of austerity that…
3 July 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lwydd. Earlier this year, of course, we marked 75 years since the establishment of our national health service, the greatest sociopolitical success of the twentieth century and one that is rooted here in Wales. But following 25…
3 July 2024 , Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Dentistry training
I thank Siân Gwenllian for bringing forward this important and timely debate before the Senedd today. I do note, and it is interesting to note, that Keir Starmer has been campaigning quite a lot on dentistry, referring very often to a visit that he made to…
3 July 2024 , Plenary
90-second Statements
This year marks 150 years since the creation of the North Wales Quarrymen's Union, an event that was very significant in our history as a nation. It's also 150 years since the lockout at the Dinorwig quarry. The union was established in the Queen's Head pub…
3 July 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
A surprising response again from the Cabinet Secretary. Might I remind her that we're not in Government and she is in Government and you're in charge of health here? The cuts will come with you having to carry them out. The most frustrating aspect of this…
3 July 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
The Cabinet Secretary sounds like someone from the Conservative Government in London when she speaks here. Of course, the consequences of Starmer's vision for public services is that the incoming UK Labour Government will fall into the same trap this…
3 July 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Diolch, Llywydd. Well, an interesting response there by the Cabinet Secretary at the end. As we've long suspected, however, the incoming Labour Government's embrace of Tory designated fiscal rules and a refusal to countenance progressive tax-raising measures…
2 July 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Mike Hedges is quite right to point out the importance of foreign workers in the care sector. Mike referred to people from Guyana and Trinidad, for example; I am aware of a number of people from Nigeria working in north Wales at the moment and appreciate the…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
Not on this point. Unless somebody else wants to come in on that point, I'll go to my final question, if that's okay. Okay. In terms of the Bill, the explanatory memorandum says that the Welsh Government is proposing to develop a central hub to create a pool…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
Thank you. I'm just thinking now, would it be a help if you could confirm, perhaps in a letter, or that ADSS could confirm how they came to that exact figure? It would help us to understand the rationale and give that figure credence. And next, ADSS once…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
Thank you very much, Chair. Welsh Government, in doing this, has based its calculations on an estimate by ADSS that a maximum of five people per local authority will transfer from local authority care to continuing healthcare during the first three years…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
Thank you, Chair. I'm pleased that Councillor Andrew Morgan has made that last point, and I'm thankful for it. Having got my mind to work, we see at the moment that some local authorities are paying a continuing healthcare sum of some amount, but that the…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
Thank you.
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
Do you think there should be a register of foster carers, people who are doing the fostering—a national register?
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
If I could ask one final question—and I'm very grateful for the answers I've received so far—in a previous session, one of the people before us was concerned when it came to foster care about the lack of data in Wales, that we don't have enough information…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
So, if two years isn't enough of a transition period, how much time would you need to reach a point where the independent businesses have succeeded to become not-for-profit businesses, where you've managed to get enough foster parents in the fostering…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
Thank you very much, and thank you once more for your contributions. Now, in the previous sessions, we have heard concerns that the transformation period of two years is insufficient. You have mentioned—I think, Darren, you mentioned —that it had taken two…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
Thank you very much. Very quickly—and thank you for attending the meeting and for your presentations—Sally, you said now, a little bit earlier, that the key element—I think those were your words—is the resources, or the lack of resources. Those were your…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: provision of social care services to children - evidence session with private and independent providers and representative bodies
Thank you, Chair. I think that you have answered all of the points on the whole, but I would point out that we are scrutinising the Bill here; that's what we're doing. So, we will be making recommendations in terms of amendments. We will be challenging the…
