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. The Children's Homes Association say in their evidence to us that the Welsh Government hasn't learned the lessons of the Competition and Markets Authority reports as to how to make the market in the care of looked-after children work better…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: provision of social care services to children - evidence session with not-for-profit providers
Okay, Chair. Thank you. First of all, to say that I take very seriously all the points we've heard this morning about the need to plan properly for transition. I think we've heard some very important, practical issues that we need to make sure are known by…
24 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
One of the things that is troubling me—and I'll ask it to Jennifer, in a way—is trust in politics is particularly eroded amongst some parts of the population whose views some of us may not like or share, including those people who I think you may have been…
24 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
Do you mind if I just have one very last point? Sorry, I've had far too much.
24 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
Just to make it clear, that is not what we're proposing. When this committee will set a series of tests, the Senedd will have decided that somebody has failed that test. It's not saying to people, 'This person may have told you something untrue or not'; we…
24 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
We started all this by talking about the need to restore trust, people's trust in the political system. The resolution I suggested to you, incorporating this issue within the standards procedure, would trust the electorate to make the final determination. I…
24 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
Chair, I've got two points I want to pursue. Given that we just heard the case again as to why the courts are a preferable forum for resolving these matters, maybe I'll take that one first. The committee is, other than in this session, looking at the whole…
24 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
The difficulty will be that there will be some evidence that some vaccination does do some harm to some people. It will be very limited numbers of cases, and the good that is done to the vast majority through vaccination will have outweighed the harm done to…
24 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
I'm keen to come back to this point more, Chair, but we should hear from Jennifer. Apologies for cutting across you earlier.
24 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
I'll just finish. Just one moment. I won't be long. I'm just more interested in those areas where fact and opinion collide in a much less clear-cut way than the two examples you've just rehearsed. I'm not asking you for legal advice, I'm just asking you for…
24 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
I'm afraid I think my example is much more pertinent to the committee than the two you've just offered us. One is clearly a matter of fact, the other is clearly a matter of opinion. What I'm—
24 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
Thank you very much for being with us this morning. I'll just start by echoing what the Chair said in opening—that the committee will always be very anxious to find ways of upholding the highest standards of integrity and probity in the operation of the…
24 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
Chair, thank you very much. And thank you both for your evidence this morning.
19 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Supporting people with chronic conditions: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Chair, I've probably run out of my time, but if, later on, there is a moment, I would have liked to have asked the Cabinet Secretary about what I think is one of the great successes of her time as health Minister, and that's contract reform in primary care…
19 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Supporting people with chronic conditions: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
So, here’s my second group of questions, which is about professional workers, and I think the committee, previous members of the committee, have heard contradictory evidence on this. They've heard lots of evidence. I'd say the predominant amount of evidence…
19 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Supporting people with chronic conditions: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
I won’t have a chance to ask about e-cigarettes, but Joyce might later, but saturation zones, as they're called in the alcohol field—. My constituency is full of e-cigarette outlets; nobody could argue there is a commercial need for another one, but it's very…
19 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Supporting people with chronic conditions: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thank you, Heather. So, look, just one further point in this first group. If we want to persuade people to take the actions that only they can take in their own lives—and I think, Minister, you've already said this, really—doesn't Government have a…
19 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Supporting people with chronic conditions: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Your paper, Cabinet Secretary, makes it clear in the early stages the enormous pressures that are faced in the health service by people with chronic conditions, and on pages 15 and 16 you set out the precipitating background conditions that explain some of…
19 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Supporting people with chronic conditions: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thank you very much. Good morning to the Cabinet Secretary. Of course, I have two groups of questions and if there's time, and if the Chair is willing, I have a third point that I'd like to make too. The first point is to do with patients and to follow up on…
17 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
Thanks, Chair.
17 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
Thank you. Do you mind, Chair, if I add one final—? It's an observation, perhaps, more than a question. We've heard about the trade-off between the petitions system and the one-day system. I think we were told last week that in the Belfast case, the one that…
17 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
Thank you. That's very clear, Mick. A final question from me. I'm leaving the issues of a threshold aside for now, because you rehearsed those very well with Peredur. So, my question, then, is—. So, we've heard a witness this morning describe that one stage…
17 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
Thank you, Chair. So, to the broader question, Counsel General, it's a two-part question, and I'll give you the first part first, which is many witnesses have said to us that the Westminster system has worked reasonably well and is essentially sound, but it…
17 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
Thank you, Chair. Do you want to take Peredur next, Chair, because I think it's on this point?
17 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 6
—and moved to another party? Does that person then get skipped?
