, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the following business:
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, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Deputy Minister. I appreciate your call for my future career change, whereas I'm quite happy where I am. I plan on staying here for a very long time because someone needs to hold you to account. In the same interview, returning back to Sharp End…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Deputy Minister. Believe me, I did study your interview, and sticking with the Sharp End theme here, Deputy Minister, you were asked if the people of Wales should expect to see more 50 mph speed limit zones—just like the ineffective ones already…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Presiding Officer. Deputy Minister, during a recent interview on Sharp End, you hit out at Cardiff Bus for raising concerns about your controversial plans to roll out 20 mph speed limits across Wales. They feared that the move—which, I must stress…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for your answer, Minister. The devastating effects of the pandemic are still, sadly, being felt by public services all across Wales. It would be reasonable to assume, therefore, that your Government will take every opportunity to assist public…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
8. How have the Welsh Government's spending priorities helped public services recover from the effects of the pandemic? OQ58746
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I'd like to thank my colleague Jayne Bryant for raising this question. Minister, the decision of the UK Government to block the acquisition of the Newport Wafer Fab by Nexperia for reasons of national security has obviously caused great concern amongst the…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Pre-appointment hearing with the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
Sorry, Jenny—just a sub-question to that. I'm from the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee, and I know one of my colleagues, my Chair, from that particular committee is here with me today. We like our numbers, and I'm sure a lot of people in…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Pre-appointment hearing with the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
Thank you so much, Chair. In a number of questions that you've already answered, you've mentioned things such as joined-up working, you've mentioned cost-effectiveness, you've mentioned the Nolan principles, which I know is music to a lot of people's ears…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Okay. My sincerest apologies, Chair. No, I won't be pushing it any further. I believe they've answered the question that I had in mind.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
[Laughter.] Okay, that's a good start. Chair, I do apologise, I can't find that particular area in front of me.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Oh, my apologies, Chair, I don't believe I've got that section in front of me. Bear with me. I'm so sorry. I'm badly organised.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
My apologies, Chair, I don't think I did according to the—. Oh, my apologies, sorry. I'm so, so sorry. In relation to—. I do apologise. I just wanted to know if you're going to be able to achieve the financial plans that you actually have in place, moving…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Thank you, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
But surely wouldn't doctors know best, because they're the ones that the patients are waiting in line to see for so, so long? And wouldn't they be the ones who—? Potentially, okay, I understand that not every doctor's a fully-fledged accountant, but when it…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Wouldn't they know better, being the ones seeing the patients on a day-to-day basis?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Thank you so much for that. My final question now. My mother's a doctor and, obviously, she and my father have a lot of friends who are consultants across various health boards across Wales. And one of the issues that they have, and they've raised with me, is…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
I appreciate you just mentioned that you want to engage with patients, and that's absolutely fantastic. We've had many a meeting with different health boards since the Senedd was formed in this particular term, and the one thing that they've always emphasised…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Okay, thank you for that. As you mentioned, there are difficulties; I can appreciate that. I know my colleagues in the room will appreciate that as well. There has always been a consistent theme in reports relating to the health board over the years about…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
I do. Thank you so much, Chair. I just wanted to reiterate—I completely want to make something really clear to you both. I know I'm not there in person today, but I'm sure that my other colleagues do as well; we appreciate and sympathise with every health…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Frankly, I couldn't agree with you more. I think a lot of my colleagues will be in the same boat as well; we all want to see the services thrive, especially for the residents of north Wales. So, my next question is: the process of self-assessment is—. I'd…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Okay. Thank you so much for that. You mentioned in your answer that you just gave about leadership and governance as well playing a big part. Is it possible that the reason why a lot of people don't want to work there is based on the reputation and the…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Can I just ask you to elaborate? You've mentioned a few times about vascular services. Is it the staffing that's an issue? Is it the equipment that's a problem? What exactly is the concern—[Inaudible.]—of vascular services?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence session with the North Wales Community Health Council
Thank you so much, Chair. Good morning, everyone. The TIF—the targeted intervention framework—agreed by the health board with the Welsh Government actually sets out a very wide-ranging and significant number of challenges. I'd like to know what are the key…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
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