, Finance Committee
Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Estimate 2022-23 and Interim Report: Evidence session
You will be auditing bodies that will also have potential for pay increases, but what they will do is they'll hold vacancies during the year until they make back those pay increases, because they will not be able to get the money for them. You'll be auditing…
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Estimate 2022-23 and Interim Report: Evidence session
I'd suggest that you start negotiating this, and if not, if the journey from your office to where people are going is shorter, then you make them come into the office first and then move on. I don't think anybody wants that, so I think there are negotiations…
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Estimate 2022-23 and Interim Report: Evidence session
So, if I was working for you—I live in Swansea—you would pay me if I went to audit Cardiff Council for travel from where I live, but if I went to your offices first and then went to Cardiff Council, I'd only have a claim from your offices to Cardiff Council.
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Estimate 2022-23 and Interim Report: Evidence session
On travel, I was surprised at what you said. I used to work in a college, and your travel was netted. I live in Swansea; if I went to Bridgend, I got no travel, because I was travelling less far than I would do to go to Pontypridd. It was only when I went…
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Estimate 2022-23 and Interim Report: Evidence session
Netting off those costs against current savings in travel.
, Finance Committee
Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Estimate 2022-23 and Interim Report: Evidence session
Diolch yn fawr, Peter. My first question is: £70,000 of additional funding is requested due to the changes to travel-to-work practices, which have been deemed unlawful. Is there more coming in from historic—? Will there be historic costs on that? And why…
, Plenary
Debate: Voter Inclusion
But, it was higher before as well. Northern Ireland has historically had very high turnouts. It's a bit like saying the turnout in Brecon and Radnor was higher than in Blaenau Gwent or Swansea East.
, Plenary
Debate: Voter Inclusion
It also delivers Labour Governments, and just think this: if we'd never had first-past-the-post, we wouldn't have had the national health service because the Conservatives and the Liberals, as they were then, would have gathered together in 1945 to take…
, Plenary
Debate: Voter Inclusion
Well, it certainly doesn't do that, but—
, Plenary
Debate: Voter Inclusion
You did.
, Plenary
Debate: Voter Inclusion
Next time I have a parcel you can come with me to collect it; I showed my credit card and they gave it to me. But, since the 1992 election, when 77.7 per cent of the population voted, voter turnout has decreased and remained low. What we need is to get more…
, Plenary
Debate: Voter Inclusion
They don't.
, Plenary
Debate: Voter Inclusion
Very interesting, Darren, but they don't.
, Plenary
Debate: Voter Inclusion
Yes.
, Plenary
Debate: Voter Inclusion
The one action that has improved election turnout is postal votes being provided on request. Unfortunately for democracy, the American Republicans and the British Conservatives want to remove voters from demographics unfavourable to them and to make voting…
, Plenary
Debate: Voter Inclusion
I can't speak on behalf of Clwyd West, but in Swansea East, when you go into the polling station, you often don't have to give your name and they greet you by, 'Hello, Mike,' 'Hello, Huw.' The people in there live in the community; they tend to know the…
, Plenary
The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 19) Regulations 2021
And lives.
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Like most if not all Members of the Senedd, I will be attending remembrance services on Thursday and Sunday. I congratulate and thank the Royal British Legion and others such as the Morriston salvation band and Llansamlet historical society who will be…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and social care workforce: evidence session with Health Education and Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales
I'm going to make you happy, Russ, and say I'm happy.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and social care workforce: evidence session with Health Education and Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales
Thank you for that. If you could write to us, and if it doesn't exist, what you're doing to make sure it exists. There are an awful lot of elderly constituents of mine—and I'm sure of other people—who are much happier speaking in Welsh to people when they're…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and social care workforce: evidence session with Health Education and Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales
Can I raise the Welsh language? Is there anywhere in Wales where somebody could train to be a nurse through the medium of Welsh? And is there anywhere in Wales where you can do an NVQ level 3 for carers through the medium of Welsh?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and social care workforce: evidence session with Health Education and Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales
Can I come in on this point? Because if you reduced the placement by one fifth, you could train 20 per cent more. We are not going to solve the problems without training more people. We can have this pretend discussion, as we often do in the Senedd, that we…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Thank you. Something I've said on a number of occasions—we've got a problem—there are far too many people who see A&E departments as an alternative to going to their GP if they cannot get a GP appointment, and that's bad right the way across.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Thank you for those answers. I won't push you on getting primary and secondary care to work closer together, I'll just assume that you're going to do your best to try and get that to occur. My final question is about Bridgend moving into Cwm Taf, something I…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Thank you. I don't expect a detailed answer on this, but it's a fairly detailed question. I'm going to talk about relationships. You've got two very large health boards alongside you with Morriston Hospital in one and the Heath in the other, so, relationships…
