, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Could I ask the Trefnydd for a written statement or an oral statement on the community scheme in Ely in Cardiff West?
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
I thank the Cabinet Secretary for that. Llywydd, if we think of general practice these days, more and more we refer to the wider clinical team, those other people with clinical skills who can be part of an effort to provide primary care in…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
1. Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on efforts to diversify the dental workforce? OQ61008
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language
Does the Cabinet Secretary not agree that behind these difficulties lies the impact of austerity on the ONS itself, an organisation of very high repute, which plays a very important part in the public service infrastructure of south-east Wales, but which has…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language
I thank the Cabinet Secretary. The problems with the data have continued for months now, and we've just heard from the ONS that the new system that they are going to put in place won't be there until next September. And that creates major problems for the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language
2. What assessment has the Cabinet Secretary made of the reliability of the Office for National Statistics labour force survey data in relation to Wales? OQ61009
, Plenary
Group 11: Referendum on the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024 (Amendments 37, 38)
Let me just assure the Member that the fact that he doesn't recall something is no evidence of it not having happened. [Laughter.] Time after time during the election I made it clear in interviews, in broadcasts, in debates, that my party stood for a reform…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of Hywel Dda University Health Board: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Thanks. My final question is about the strategic relationship between Hywel Dda health board and its neighbouring health boards. Because here you are with a board that, along its long eastern edge, has a very close primary care relationship with Powys; by the…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of Hywel Dda University Health Board: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Thank you. Neil, I was interested in what you said earlier about your experience of working with communities, and here is a board that has an enormous range of different communities within it, from the industrial history of Llanelli, and its surrounding…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of Hywel Dda University Health Board: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Neil. Three questions from me about the strategic aspects of the role. The first one: I think a reasonable person might fairly describe Hywel Dda as an organisation in trouble. The entire organisation is currently in targeted…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of Swansea Bay University Health Board: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
One final question, then, from me, and, Jan, you've said a lot already about where you think your immediate priorities would lie and the things that you would need to grapple with in chairing the board. I wanted to ask you one sort of subset of that, because…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of Swansea Bay University Health Board: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Very good. Thank you very much.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of Swansea Bay University Health Board: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Great. Thank you very much, Jan. I just want to ask one question about the use of the Welsh language. There are quite large numbers of people who use the board's services, and people who work for the board, who use the Welsh language at home, but, when it…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of Swansea Bay University Health Board: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Jan, good morning. Thank you very much for such interesting answers to the questions that we've already heard. I have two questions to begin, in the area of equality of opportunity. So, a general one: how can you, with all the experiences that you've had…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Could I just say that I know the two people appearing before the committee this morning? I've known Mrs Williams over the years, before the period of devolution, and I've worked with Mr Wooding when he was working within the Welsh Government.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 2
Diolch yn fawr.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 2
Diolch yn fawr, Cadeirydd.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 2
If the position is one of overwhelming failure, then, are there particularly concerning examples amongst those opencast sites that were due to have been restored in Wales but where that hasn't happened? Are there particularly egregious examples that you think…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 2
Is it inevitable that the system as it's currently constructed fails? Are there any examples at all that you can identify of where restoration has been satisfactorily completed?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 2
So, my first general question is to ask, where there are examples in Wales where proper restoration of former opencast sites has not been fully undertaken, what do you think are the main reasons for that? What are the factors that you think that explain those…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 2
Thank you very much, Chair. I've only got two general questions and other members of the committee will come to specific questions on Ffos-y-fran in due course.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 1
I'm content, Chair. Delyth has pursued the questions that I wanted to ask.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 1
Thank you. I've two further areas, Chair, if I can.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 1
So, while the amateur eye on this might think, 'Oh, this looks pretty complicated here—at least three different authorities, all with separate powers, all with separate responsibilities, all with separate enforcement actions available to them', it would be…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 1
I'll just say that I think that's an important point—that sometimes it is difficult to convey to others that the law does have a balancing approach to interests and it does allow people, against whom action has been taken, time to dispute that action, to make…
