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Group 3: Health service procurement principles and governance (Amendments 14, 15, 16, 18, 22, 25)
Thank you very much, Chair. Good morning, everyone. I speak to, and I'm going to be formally moving, a series of amendments in group 3. And forgive me, Chair, as there is a great deal of work to do to explain the background to this, and this will be my…
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Group 2: Definition of goods or services connected to health services (Amendment 2)
Against.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Accounting practices at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
It's déjà vu, isn't it? And it saddens me immensely that here we are again, talking about an issue of utmost seriousness in relation to Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. It's eight years—eight years—since it went into special measures first. Eight…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you for that response. I look forward to seeing that report. There are two bridges, of course, at the moment. I would like to ask for an assurance, first of all, that everything will be done to reduce difficulties locally in doing the work on the Menai…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
2. Will the Minister make a statement on the Government's plans to improve transport links across the Menai Strait? OQ59621
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Building Capacity through Community Care—Further Faster
Thank you to the Minister for this afternoon's statement. I do welcome this additional investment in a hospital-at-home programme. Not many weeks have passed since one of the workers of Môn Enhanced Care, MEC, met with some of the Minister's officials in…
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Thank you very much.
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Thank you very much for that. That was a very clear answer. And one final question; I'm not sure who would wish to answer this, or maybe brief comments from both of you. There was an intention in this legislation to strengthen the rights of unpaid carers…
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
A question to Dr Tarrant, because you have touched on this already. There is no reference to the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities on the face of the legislation. There is a reference to children and older people's rights. What do you…
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
If that's the situation, and austerity has been so much of a problem, as we seek answers to improve the situation, do we have to wait until the flow of public money is back and on a more generous level, or do we have to change how we think about implementing…
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Thank you very much, Chair. I think if legislation was measured according to its intention, then this legislation would score very highly. Of course, what we've heard is that the reality, in terms of people's experience, does not correspond to the principles…
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 1
Thank you very much for that, Mark. I think that’s a very interesting point, that we’ll have to keep an eye on how the consultation addresses those 19 questions. I think that’s key. You’ve gone to a heck of a lot of trouble to identify those 19 questions. We…
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 1
I’m not suggesting for a second that you try to let the Government off the hook, but not having recommendations that Government have to accept or reject, in a way, can be letting them off the hook. They can just carry on asking the questions themselves now…
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 1
I think you're right, it really could help us if we're told these are the key questions. Our scrutiny work is about asking questions and seeing where we're at in the development and roll-out of policy. Would you be able to prioritise within the 19 questions…
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 1
I'll ask you to help us. My last question—I'll bring it forward—is: what would you like us to do as parliamentarians with this now? What would help you see this through, because you're posing these questions with a view to having them answered? How can we…
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 1
Good morning to you. I have a few questions now in terms of processes for the sector and for us as parliamentarians. I'm very grateful to you for your work on the evaluation. Setting objectives and test questions, I think, is a way of challenging the sector…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS Dentistry
We, as a health committee in the Senedd, were recently shocked by some of the statistics that were presented to us as we did an inquiry into dental services. But maybe the most striking thing was that it was impossible to provide a figure for how many people…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS Dentistry
Thank you, Llywydd, and I thank the Conservatives for bringing forward this debate in the Senedd this afternoon. I think the motion itself does reflect clearly the severity of the challenges facing dentistry, and it’s not to overstate the fact to refer to…
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Motion to elect Chairs and Members to the Wales Covid-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
I note that, whilst I questioned the circumstances in which this deal was made, both Conservatives and Labour chose to add the word 'grubby', and both responded with a denial that there had been a 'grubby' deal—their choice of words. And now we see, of…
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Motion to elect Chairs and Members to the Wales Covid-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Just a few words from me. We will support this motion today, because, after all, we co-submitted the motion requesting the establishment of such a committee. It's important to note, however, our shock once again that the establishment of a cross-party…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
I've highlighted where I believe and others believe the conflicts of interest are here, and again I can't see why the Welsh Government wouldn't say, 'We would support a full police investigation as a means to bring back trust in the system.' The impact of all…
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Diolch, Llywydd. Yet again today, we have to focus on Betsi Cadwaladr. Two weeks ago, Plaid Cymru raised concerns in this Chamber about the implications of the Ernst and Young report—raised the same concerns that we just heard about from the Conservative…
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Statement by the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd: Strengthening our ties with Ireland and the North-west of England
Unlike Darren Millar, I don't have an Irish passport, but it's always worth highlighting that cruel irony that Darren Millar and his party were more than happy to take my European citizenship from me through our departure from the European Union. But I will…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: Update on Bus Services
I thank the Deputy Minister for the statement today and for the assessment, which is a sobering assessment, of the challenges facing us. But of course, somehow, in the future, we're going to have to build a bus service that serves our communities and some of…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Respiratory disease
I'm grateful to John Griffiths, and to the Minister, for recognising the scale of the issue that we do face. I'm grateful to the Conservatives for saying that they will be supporting our motion, unamended, today. But to all Labour Members, let me say this…
