Plaid Cymru

Speeches and questions

Speeches and questions in Plenary and in committees, newest first. The Llywydd's and deputies' chairing of Plenary is left out.

703 speeches and questions

29 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Thank you very much, Natasha, for that series of questions.
29 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Thank you for those questions. They are fair questions. I think when you look at what we are proposing and how we propose to improve outcomes, it states early in the document that the difference between this framework and the previous one is that we have…
29 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Thank you for those questions.
29 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
I welcome you to your post and congratulate you on your appointment as shadow spokesperson for health and care. Good luck with it. I thank your predecessor as well for his contributions. I welcome the fact that you see the value of what we've put forward…
29 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Thank you very much for those comments.
29 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Importantly, the framework recognises that accountability and support are two sides of the same coin. Organisations must continue to be held accountable for delivering high-quality, safe and sustainable services, but they must also have access to the right…
29 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
At its heart, the framework establishes a stronger focus on organisational maturity, capability and sustainable improvement. The framework is structured around the core pillars and domain of leadership and organisational effectiveness, quality, delivery and…
29 September 2026Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Review of the Escalation and Intervention Framework
Thank you very much, Llywydd. I'm pleased to provide an update on the commitment in our first 100-day plan to commission a review of the effectiveness of the NHS Wales escalation and intervention framework. The review was commissioned to ensure that our…
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
Diolch. Looking forward to keeping the relationship going.
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
There we go, that's an opportunity for you. If there is a pattern, then it might be escalated.
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
If you're aware of any specific individual instances, then raise them with the GP surgery initially, I would suggest. You can raise it with Llais as well before it then is—
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
For mental health.
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
—a ton load of data. We've got a lot of data. We've got data going back many years. Are we making the best use of that data? That's questionable. So, we want to improve the usage of data.
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
I'll try and give a very succinct answer. We've got—
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
With the cancer strategy, very briefly, we will be looking at that cancer journey: from the prevention, through to the diagnosis, through to treatment, through to living well—those four steps of the cancer journey. Women will be part of that, obviously. But…
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
Yes, I'm extremely frustrated, as I expressed yesterday, by the situation that we are finding in Cwm Taf when it comes to the health visitors. It needs to be resolved; it can't go on. It is an issue of safeguarding for children and young people and their…
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
We're lucky to have Jacqueline, whose expertise is in paediatrics and children's health.
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
If you don't mind, the three of us will respond in part. But you make an important point about how children often get forgotten or fall between a number of gaps in the health system, hence why we are putting together a children's health plan, or children and…
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
Yes, we are. I think it's an important point. When it comes to digitisation, there are two models we could follow. There is the utopian Estonia model, where they built their own system entirely, extremely costly, and we're just not in that space…
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
On the specifics, I can't answer the specifics around that, so unless Jacqueline can—and it's fairly detailed information that you're looking for—we can write to you with the specifics around that. But on the broader question of clinical input into designing…
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
Currently, I think the biggest barrier would probably be the legal frameworks in place, because we've got independent bodies who control data, who control systems. So, breaking those down is going to be key to this. It should be possible. As I said in the…
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
Other than Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, my biggest frustration is probably around digital, as we touched on earlier. There's so much that digital can offer. There's so much that we can do with it, and there's so much that we're not doing at the…
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
So, again, this is a situation we inherited, and it was unfortunate. I see how it happened. So, it dates back four years, to when Health Education and Improvement Wales put their plan together and looked at the retention rate of the NHS and the expected…
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
So, the workforce plan is now being put in place, so that's part of a 100-day plan, and I'm glad to say that we'll have that high level, as we touched on. On agency, we are putting in place plans now to reduce agency spend even further. I can provide you the…
17 September 2026Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
So, again, when I sat in this committee previously, and spoke to health officials and health managers across Wales, it was absolutely apparent that we didn't have a coherent workforce plan. We didn't know where the workforce was, who did what, and information…