, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Well, I was going to talk about finance, which I've got down here, but I'll talk about emergency services.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
I was going to say that, where I live in south Wales, in Swansea, people always, for heart, used to go up to London. It's a recent phenomenon that the provision is in Swansea and Cardiff. It used to be always up to London. So, that's me on vascular done, Mark.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
It's going to be one of those two, depending on the service. I'm not an expert on vascular services. It would be one of those two. If it was renal, it would probably be Swansea.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Not the digital and online, I mean the physical—
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
I was just going to say, Hywel Dda has a hub-and-spoke model from Morriston for renal services, which works incredibly well. Hywel Dda uses Swansea Bay University Health Board/Morriston Hospital as their place to go for a whole range of services. And although…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Yes. Before I move on to that, I used to serve on a health board, and I'll tell you the best way to not get reappointed to a health board is to challenge the executive and the chair. I think that perhaps what you need to see is those who are doing the most…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Yes.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Yes.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Two yeses.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Yes.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Note it, and we'll come back to it, I'm sure, in the near future.
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Estimate 2023-24 and Interim Report: Evidence session
During the last Senedd, there was movement to having the Finance Committee looking at part of it and PAPAC looking at another part of it so that the auditor general is not reporting to the people who he was working with. I think that was a good idea, and I…
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Estimate 2023-24 and Interim Report: Evidence session
Okay, thank you.
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Estimate 2023-24 and Interim Report: Evidence session
Okay, fine. And finally from me, you've got a £43,000 increase for 'other supplies and services', which is not, as far as I can see, explained in the estimate. Can you, in general terms, explain what that covers?
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Estimate 2023-24 and Interim Report: Evidence session
But, if it isn't £50,000, you return that money somehow, either to—.
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Estimate 2023-24 and Interim Report: Evidence session
Okay. Your estimate also requests a £50,000 increase relating to financial training programmes. Is this an increase in cost of the existing training or additional training programmes, or different training altogether?
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Estimate 2023-24 and Interim Report: Evidence session
Please do. It was something that people used some time ago; I don't know whether it's still in existence, because you can be accessed by anywhere in the world, but you also want your own people to be able to use it, to only allow access from designated…
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Estimate 2023-24 and Interim Report: Evidence session
You estimate an extra £60,000 to support the measures in 2023-24. In general terms, what are those measures going to be doing to make you cyber secure? And have you considered phone-back as a means of dealing with people who are contacting you from outside…
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Estimate 2023-24 and Interim Report: Evidence session
Thank you. We had quite a long discussion last time on cyber security; I'm afraid, Chair, we might have a long discussion today. [Laughter.]
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Estimate 2023-24 and Interim Report: Evidence session
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Your 2022-23 estimate includes additional funding for increased national insurance costs. Will you be adjusting your 2022-23 estimate and the estimate you're presenting today to reflect the reduction in those costs from November?
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
But, following on from that, the thing is, of course, that, when it fills fields for you when you start it off, it gives you a great feeling of actually making progress, rather than having to enter data every time. And even if it only asks you to confirm that…
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
And finally from me, the RIA states that the cost for farmers filling in an application form for the preferred option is 50 per cent higher than option 2. Now, will that be a one-off fill-in-a-form option, because quite often—we all do it, don't we—we fill…
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
—in that people keep saying, 'NRW can do this', but their budget doesn't always increase, or doesn't ever increase, to meet the cost of the additional work. So, sometimes, other work doesn't get done, some of it things that I think are the most important…
, Finance Committee
Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
NRW—and I think that I have some sympathy for NRW; a huge amount of criticism, but some sympathy—
