, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: Evidence session
Are you aware of training and support provided by the public bodies unit to encourage people from currently under-represented groups to apply and carry out public appointments? And have you any experience of that, or have you identified any weaknesses?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: Evidence session
Thank you. The Holmes review also recommended that candidates should be able to use alternative means of application. I know you sent us a video for this meeting. Is that happening? If it is, good. If it isn't happening, should it happen more often?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: Evidence session
Thank you very much. Do you have any views on the software used for public appointments? Are there any specific features that can have a negative impact on accessibility or anything that can, in the way that some benefit forms do—they're written to put you…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: Evidence session
Are you aware of any disability awareness courses that have been offered to chairs and panellists?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: Evidence session
Nice to meet you, Damian, in person, as opposed to as a 'Facebook friend', in inverted commas. I know what you're going to say for the answer to this, or I'm fairly certain what you're going to say, but I just want you to say it for the record.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: Evidence session
Okay. Perhaps they can provide it to us. Sorry. Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: Evidence session
I was going to say, didn't they score it? I speak as someone who's been on lots of appointment panels in lots of different places, as probably everybody else in this room has, that you score each candidate on the questions they answer, you add them all up at…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Can I push, Mark, that, whatever the Senedd's lawyers say, unless they're unequivocal in saying that we can, we seek further advice from leading counsel on the matter?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Can I just say that, if we have to raise the big stick, can we get the advice of leading counsel on it before we go? Because leading counsels are meant to have full expertise in this area, and, if we get the advice of a leading counsel, which you're probably…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Well, it surely is in our remit. If it's not in our remit, who can we scrutinise, then? If anybody can say that they can avoid providing information to us, who will still fit into us being able to scrutinise, apart from solely the Welsh Government? Because…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
If it exists somewhere, why can't they just appendix it?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Can I declare, on the last item, that I represent the Welsh Government on the programme monitoring committee and chair it?
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. I have previously raised the problem of raw sewage entering from the Trebanos treatment works. People will probably be pleased to hear that I'm not going to do that again today. But we're in a period of prolonged dry weather, meaning water levels…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
3. Will the Minister make a statement on pollution in the River Tawe? OQ59590
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: Tech and Cyber Sectors
I welcome the statement by the Minister. I'm pleased the Welsh Government has recognised the benefits and opportunities associated with the tech and cyber sectors. I keep on going on about the tech sector in here; I'm glad that I'm the one raising it and I'm…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Oh, I didn't know you'd come to an end there, First Minister. [Laughter.] Thank you for your response. Leasehold is a feudal system that causes concern to people who live in leasehold properties. Many of my constituents were incredibly upset, on the death of…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
1. Will the First Minister make a statement on the use of leasehold and its effect on homeowners? OQ59592
, Health and Social Care Committee
Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Diolch, Cadeirydd.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
I'll just very briefly come back on that. In Italy, social care via co-operatives is quite common, isn't it? And the other question is: I know you're looking at social care rather than health, but in Wales we've had a history of the larger health boards being…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I've listened to you intently, and you keep on talking about the size of local authorities in Wales. Are you aware of the size of the Scottish islands, of Clackmannanshire and London boroughs, which are not dissimilar to those in Wales, or…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 1
Happy.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 1
My experience, and you can tell me if it’s unusual, but early intervention, especially with elderly care, where you take action within social services that reduces the chance of somebody having a fall, will then reduce the chance of them ending up in hospital…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 1
No problem at all.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 1
Okay—
, Health and Social Care Committee
Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 1
The evaluation reports a view from the workforce that statutory care services are 'reactive' and a 'last resort'. I believe in early intervention. What needs to change?
