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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 7
Diolch, Llinos. Coming over to Mark, you've highlighted quite a few things already. Is there anything in particular that you'd want to add, briefly?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 7
If we start the other way around, so if we go to Llinos first. What kind of things are you going to have to do in Anglesey, if you could give us some idea, to fill that gap?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 7
Thank you for your answers there. If we can move on, in your consultation response, you say the measures that local authorities will have to take to address their budget gap will have to be drastic. Can you provide us with some examples of the measures being…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 7
Mike, do you want to come in? Can we unmute Mike, please? Diolch.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 7
Thank you. And over to you now, Llinos. Do you have any more to add?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 7
Shall we go from the south-east to the north-east? Mark, in Wrexham, any thoughts?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 7
Okay. Thank you very much. Mary Ann. Can we just unmute Mary Ann? There we are. Lovely.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 7
A warm welcome to you all. We've got a lot of ground to cover because, obviously, there is a lot of important information we've had from you as evidence, but obviously we need to find out what's going on in local government on the ground as well. We've got…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 7
Welcome to you all.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 7
And over to Llinos.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 7
And over to—
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 7
Welcome. And then over to Mark.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 7
Fantastic. Great. Who have I got? Mary Ann.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 7
Shall we start in the room with Anthony?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 7
Welcome back, everyone, to the third session this morning of scrutiny of the Welsh Government draft budget. We're joined by leaders of county councils. I'd like to go round and for you to introduce yourselves and to state where you represent. If we start in…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
Okay. Thank you very much for that session this morning. Diolch yn fawr iawn. It was really interesting, and I know we do appreciate all the work that you do in your respective organisations and everybody that you represent here today. We know it's very, very…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
Thank you very much. I'll bring the session to a close, but, just very quickly, the future generations commissioner was talking about how, with a view to the well-being goals being delivered across Cabinet, Ministers need to talk to each other, but then how…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
Darren.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
I'll pass on to Mike to finish our questioning this morning. Mike, you've probably got about a quarter of an hour if you need it, so—
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
And when you talk to junior doctors who say, 'Well, we'd get paid an awful lot more if we went to Australia or New Zealand, or even to England,' that's the—. They don't have to go that far away, they can potentially—
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
So, managing shift patterns and trying to do a little bit more rather than just traditional 12-hour shifts and that's all you can have.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
Just following on from that, I suppose it's agency workers in social care, but then looking across into primary care and locums, is there a way of not using as many locums, but salaried GPs? Is there anything like that that's going on in your aspect of…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
Basically, they're saying that there's a real concern that it will not be possible for local authorities to give the same level of protection to social services, so, budget protection, basically, to be able to pass on. So, what will the practical impact be?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
Before we move on, we've got the Welsh Local Government Association coming in in the next session and they've said that there's a real concern that the same level of protection for social services for much longer and it puts good-quality social services at…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 6
Sally wanted to just come in on that.
