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Topical Questions
I'll declare an interest as a customer of HSBC and one who uses the Welsh language line. In my constituency, as across Wales, banks, including HSBC, have turned their backs on their communities in terms of the physical presence. But no matter, the banks say…
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
I receive a lot of contact from farmers in Anglesey who are so concerned about the new scheme that they're considering not applying at all. So, what's the Minister's message to them to persuade them that there is a means of saving this scheme? But this is my…
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Questions to the First Minister
The way to have independent spending decisions made by Wales is to have an independent Welsh Treasury, of course, but I'm glad that the First Minister agrees with me that the UK Government should change the funding formula. But given, I assume, that he hopes…
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Questions to the First Minister
The Prif Weinidog pours scorn over Plaid Cymru's five-point plan, as he calls it. After 24 years of Labour-run Government in Wales, somebody's got to be coming forward with some good ideas. But I'd like to focus, if I could, on the fair funding issue. The…
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Questions to the First Minister
We witnessed in Westminster today a pretty desperate attempt to reignite the dying embers of the Conservative UK Government—using more fossil fuels to do so, of course. We saw a hardening of the Tories' climate change denying credentials, and the complete…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Llywydd. The First Minister, like me, will have been looking forward, I'm sure, to seeing what was contained within the UK Government's legislative programme today, and, like me, he will have been disappointed.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Transport for Wales
Hit the buffers.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Transport for Wales
We are in a time where we are concerned about the numbers of people using the train service. It's a genuine concern of mine that the experience that people have on the trains running between north and south Wales, having to change in Chester on…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Transport for Wales
Would you take a quick intervention?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Transport for Wales
Will you take an intervention?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Transport for Wales
You're opposing your own argument.
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Questions to the First Minister
I think the First Minister is making a rather poor excuse for the failure of the Welsh Government to get to grips with the scale of agency staff use within the NHS, because it’s the scale that we referred to. He blames us for coming back time and time again…
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Questions to the First Minister
We need to be told what those expectations are so that we can hold Government to account on its plans, of course. Last week, the First Minister invited me and Plaid Cymru to come forward with our ideas on how to deal with systemic problems in the NHS. He…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Llywydd. In an interview with Wales Today on the BBC last week, the Minister for health stated that she would outline the following day the cuts that health boards would be expected to make. In the absence of any statement, be that oral or…
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Questions to the First Minister
It's staff that explain the service to me in that way so often, and it's the lack of new ideas on how to face up to the unsustainability issues within the health service that frustrates people so much. We need new ideas, and that's as true for the running of…
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Questions to the First Minister
We will have an opportunity later to look at how much grasp the Welsh Government has on its budgets. Since the summer, Ministers have been highlighting a £900 million hole that had apparently appeared in their finances. But with the Wales Governance Centre…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister. Back to domestic affairs, now.
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you very much. The atrocities in Israel and Gaza continue to touch us all over a week after the Hamas attacks. Just as we united in condemning those appalling attacks, we must also unite now in calling for the preservation and respect of international…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: HS2 consequential funding
To conclude, it's for the benefit of everyone to understand the nature of the injustice that emerges from not having responsibility for our own transport infrastructure. It's incredible that the Labour Government back in the early days of devolution refused…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: HS2 consequential funding
Do you want to tell me how much the electrification of the north Wales railway line would—[Interruption.] We know exactly how much electrification costs from the cost of the money that was not spent as it was promised to be spent on the line from Cardiff to…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: HS2 consequential funding
Yes, of course.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: HS2 consequential funding
I think it's also important to remind people that it wasn't just a matter of us not getting the billions of pounds in consequential funding that we were owed. Money that could have gone on projects to improve railways in Wales was tied up—and has been for…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: HS2 consequential funding
There are other examples, of course, like the injustice of not having control over the Crown Estate. The fact that we don't have control over our water resources is another example. But HS2 encapsulates what happens when the UK Government can do as it chooses…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: HS2 consequential funding
The HS2 saga, I think it's fair to say, is a study in a host of different things. It tells you everything you need to know about how not to handle a major infrastructure programme, how not to overpromise and underdeliver, how not to pitch one community…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: HS2 consequential funding
Do you agree with me that it's become clear since that back-of-a-fag-packet announcement about the north Wales railway line that there's no such promise to electrify the north Wales railway line? It was an attempt to get a headline that has disintegrated…
