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Statement by the First Minister: The final report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
I would like to start today by congratulating and thanking Laura McAllister and Rowan Williams and all the commissioners for all of their work. They have held a conversation on our constitutional future that has been broader and more inclusive than we have…
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Questions to the First Minister
Of course, we are talking about one service, the air ambulance, that might be changed in the future. This has already been introduced in terms of the emergency patient transfer at Ysbyty Gwynedd. So, it's not one being taken away because something else is…
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Questions to the First Minister
The emergency patient transfer service is what transfers patients from Ysbyty Gwynedd to Liverpool or Stoke, say, perhaps after serious trauma in an accident or if they require other specialist care. Now it has been withdrawn during the night. But medical…
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Questions to the First Minister
I'm entirely convinced that placing an additional team on the ground in the north-east would provide that additional care and that removing the helicopters from these two centres will mean a poorer service. The Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Llywydd. I want to draw the First Minister's attention to reports that the air ambulance centres in Welshpool and Caernarfon are facing closure. I believe those clinicians who fear that that will put mid and north-west Wales under a disadvantage…
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Urgent Debate: Job losses at Tata Steel and the future of the steel industry in Wales
Unions have put their plans on the table to help with that transition. The unions, the workforce representatives, must be heard. And remember what is at stake here—for families, yes, directly affected, anxiety that is immeasurable, but the impact and the…
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Urgent Debate: Job losses at Tata Steel and the future of the steel industry in Wales
We have needed Governments to be more boldly proactive in thinking about the future of steel, and let's be honest here: yes, I will push Welsh Government hard to play its part in supporting our steel communities now and in the future, but it is to the UK…
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Urgent Debate: Job losses at Tata Steel and the future of the steel industry in Wales
Thank you, Llywydd. And may I thank Members across the Chamber for supporting this urgent debate today? May I thank Luke Fletcher particularly for pushing for this debate and for speaking so eloquently for his constituents? This feeling and the willingness to…
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Questions to the First Minister
It is, of course, shameful, the attitude of UK Government towards industry in Wales as it's responded to this Tata announcement, and I'm not sure what's most disturbing, the refusal of the UK Prime Minister to speak with the Welsh First Minister on the issue…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for the response. I want to make it clear I don't think £3 billion is near enough, either. It's better than the £0.5 billion that's on the table from the current Government, but the UK Government just isn't investing to help heavy industry prepare…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Llywydd. The Tata announcement on the 2,500 job losses is a tragedy for each of those individuals and their families, for the community of Port Talbot and beyond. It threatens to intensify the economic weaknesses of Wales, and it highlights the…
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Topical Questions
We've suffered jobs blow after jobs blow, of course, in my constituency—the loss of hundreds of jobs, of course, at the 2 Sisters plant in Llangefni the most recent and most well documented of those. But this, again, is a significant number of jobs. Again…
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Topical Questions
Thank you for that response. This is a company that's been operational for 40 years. I think it was 40 years ago this year that Gwynedd Shipping was established, and it's been something that we have taken pride in, in seeing Gwynedd Shipping lorries on the…
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Topical Questions
1. Will the Minister make a statement on any discussions the Welsh Government has had in relation to the future of the Gwynedd Shipping company? TQ949
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Debate: Levelling-up
The intervention itself was generous, and I'm happy to accept your generous additional time. But we do need that economic fairness Bill to make sure that Welsh funding unfairness is addressed, and I ask you to support Plaid Cymru's amendments today.
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Debate: Levelling-up
And I made the case, as I was expressing, for levelling-up funding to be distributed across the whole of the island. I was delighted when communities in Holyhead were able to receive funding, but I'm angry that communities in Amlwch were denied the…
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Debate: Levelling-up
The Member says I oppose free ports. I made the case for a free port with the level of funding that we were getting, that we were not being offered by the Conservatives. I made the case for a free port protecting workers' rights when the Conservative MP…
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Debate: Levelling-up
I'm so pleased that you gave me an opportunity to remind everybody that the Conservative MP for Ynys Môn, as with the Conservative Party as a whole, was more than happy for Holyhead, for Anglesey, to receive £8 million in free-port funding compared with the…
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Debate: Levelling-up
There are significant weaknesses in attitudes taken by Governments, both Conservative and Labour, on principles around inter-UK and intra-Wales economic fairness. In terms of intra-Wales fairness, the formula for allocating the shared prosperity fund differs…
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Debate: Levelling-up
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd, and Plaid Cymru has introduced a number of amendments in order to highlight some of the injustices caused by the levelling-up agenda of the Conservative Government in London. The ironic title, 'levelling up', or 'ffyniant bro'…
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Questions to the First Minister
On that particular point, businesses told me this morning that is not what they want. Of course they will accept money, but that is not the kind of support that they want now. The priority has to be on helping them deal with the acute problems that they do…
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Questions to the First Minister
Of course funding is an issue, but there are longer term consequences to cuts like this for the economic and societal well-being of Wales. I'd be very interested if the First Minister would share with us the calculations that this is a short-term decision…
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Questions to the First Minister
The Federation of Small Businesses's 'A Vision for Welsh Towns' report found that thriving small and independent shops is a top priority to get people back to the high street, but also there's a general understanding that you've got to offer an experience on…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Llywydd. I want to talk about business, and our high streets particularly. Wales needs a government that supports business in order to create economic prosperity and social fairness, and our communities need a vibrant high street.
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Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Yes, thank you. Diolch.
