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Questions to the First Minister
We have a locally based mortgage provider here in Wales: we have the Principality Building Society, we have the Monmouth Building Society, we have the Swansea Building Society. It's nonsense to suggest that we don't have organisations here in Wales. But, of…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I can't accept a whole series of the inaccurate assertions that the Member made in that follow-up question. Of course, I do accept that the housing system is under huge pressure. It's why we are investing record amounts of money to create…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank the Member for that question, Llywydd. Planning policy requires local planning authorities to allocate in their local development plans sufficient housing land to meet the needs of their communities. LDPs are informed by a range of evidence including…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, the right tree in the right place is exactly what our sustainable farming scheme seeks to achieve. That's why we are continuing to consult with the sector; that's why we will have a long transition into the sustainable farming scheme of the…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, first of all, I want to recognise the pressures that change brings with it. Whenever people are faced with change, there is uncertainty and there is a feeling that the future is going to be a challenge. I absolutely recognise that feeling in…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I hadn't intended to get drawn into the opening remarks that you made at the start of today's session, but given that others have, I'll just tell you this one thing. My brother recently found, amongst effects that he'd taken from my mother's…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I apologise to anybody whose experience of the Welsh NHS is not the experience that we would wish them to have, of course I do. It is not the case that the new services the Minister has funded and developed are not making an impact in the…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I'm not responsible for an individual noticeboard in an individual department somewhere in Wales. If he wants a proper answer to his question, then I think he would recognise that the fundamental issue with both the ambulance service and A&E…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, as the leader of the opposition will know, I'm never in a position to comment on individual cases, no matter how much attention has been drawn to them. The Welsh ambulance trust has expressed its disappointment at the service that was able to…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, a great deal of work has gone on already to create new bus services to the Grange hospital. No commercial provider will provide such a service. So, while I absolutely recognise the point that Delyth Jewell has made about there being people who…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I'm afraid I can't answer in detail for how Wrexham council discharges its responsibilities in this area, but I do remember the question that the Member put to me when I was in Wrexham and I remember agreeing with him, and I agree with him…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I'm very pleased to give the Member an assurance that that Bill is in the final stages of its preparation. It's a complex Bill, but it will come in front of the Senedd. One of the fundamental ways in which it will change the bus landscape in…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, we will bring forward a bus Bill to reform the failed system of deregulation. That will enable all levels of government to work with our communities to design and deliver bus services they need.
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, there are a number of ways in which the poverty strategy aims to do more to help young people and families who are in that position. Part of it is, as Cefin Campbell said, by making sure that we draw down into Wales the help that is available…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Cefin Campbell very much for that supplementary question, Llywydd. I've heard from Joyce Watson about the fact that, when people do go to the foodbank in Ammanford, they don't only receive food—they get advice and other things to help them to improve…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, the sustainable farming scheme has sustainable food production at its core. It's the first thing that the SFS is designed to achieve. We have kept the current level of basic payment scheme payments for farmers in Wales, quite unlike what has happened…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, Llywydd, I thank Joyce Watson. Her experience is exactly mine and, I'm sure, that of all Members around the Chamber, that when you visit a foodbank, you are immediately in awe of the commitment that people who run them show every single week. But I'm…
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Questions to the First Minister
Llywydd, since 2019, we have provided £18.85 million, including £2 million in this financial year, to support community food organisations. That funding assists them to access, store and distribute additional supplies of good-quality food and other essential…
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Statement by the First Minister: The final report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
Dirprwy Lywydd, I'm grateful to Darren Millar for that thoughtful contribution and for the respect that he showed to the work of the commission and those who have contributed so much to it. I think the citizen awareness issue—I'm absolutely agreeing with him…
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Statement by the First Minister: The final report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
Well, Llywydd, the report is very clear that, unless action is taken, then devolution in Wales will atrophy, that you can't just stand still. And we haven't been standing still, because we've seen things flow away from this Senedd and back to London. And, as…
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Statement by the First Minister: The final report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
What a difference, Dirprwy Lywydd dros dro, in the quality of two contributions we've heard, one after the other. Many of the things Adam Price has said this afternoon I think we should think about. I think the possibility of the national school of…
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Statement by the First Minister: The final report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
Temporary Deputy Presiding Officer, I thank Adam Price for his words about the spirit behind the commission, and I thank him for the contribution that he made when the commission was established and when we were discussing the work that the commission was…
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Statement by the First Minister: The final report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
Well, sorry, Dirprwy Lywydd, it is a deeply depressing contribution, isn't it, that the person makes? You would think that he might have thought himself sent here to make some sort of serious contribution to the future of the United Kingdom. But if he thinks…
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Statement by the First Minister: The final report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
I thank Alun Davies for all of those points, Dirprwy Lywydd dros dro. He has made serious points and he is right to say that the report does make for serious and challenging reading. You would have expected no less, I think, when you look at the calibre of…
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Statement by the First Minister: The final report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
I should say, just for the record, Llywydd, that it was the Government who appointed all members of the commission. Political parties put forward names, and then the Government appointed all members, including Leanne Wood, who represented Plaid Cymru, and I…
