17 May 2022 , Plenary
The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 10) Regulations 2022
I didn't intend to speak, because I'm certainly happy to support this regulation, but I want to respond to the comment made by the health spokesperson of the Conservatives. I think it is completely sensible to use legislation in this restricted way. We see…
17 May 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: Offshore Marine Energy
Thanks for the statement. I welcome the focus on the potential for ports to benefit from the next generation of offshore energy generation. I've spoken with developers like BP, for example, encouraging investment in Holyhead as an offshore wind hub. The…
11 May 2022 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Alcohol-related harm
The increasing incidence of alcohol abuse is very concerning, and it's something that each and every one of us should be concerned about. It's believed that high-risk drinkers have been driving the recent increase in alcohol consumption, and that has led to…
11 May 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
There's quite a simple motion before us today. Myself and my colleagues on these benches agree that the Welsh Government doesn't have an adequate plan to tackle NHS waiting lists in Wales and the backlogs in Wales. We've seen the plan, over the last few…
11 May 2022 , Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): The Holodomor
The Soviet Government denied the existence of this famine until the end of the 1980s, but it’s been seared on the minds of the people of Ukraine for 90 years. It’s important that we remember too. To conclude, the sadness beyond words is that this isn't…
11 May 2022 , Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): The Holodomor
'May I...congratulate the Soviet Foreign Office on its skill in concealing the true situation in the USSR? Moscow is not Russia, and the sight of well-fed people there tends to hide the real Russia.'
11 May 2022 , Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): The Holodomor
But, of course, this wasn't a story that could be told publicly. The Soviet press, as we've heard, denied that any famine had taken place at all. Unfortunately, there were plenty in the western press who were willing to believe that. There was one man, of…
11 May 2022 , Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): The Holodomor
'What I saw that morning...was inexpressibly horrible. On a battlefield men die quickly, they fight back, they are sustained by fellowship and a sense of duty. Here I saw people dying in solitude by slow degrees, dying hideously, without the excuse of…
11 May 2022 , Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): The Holodomor
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd, and to everyone who has made such thoughtful comments today, and thank you for that commitment by the Minister. I'm pleased that we as a Senedd can express in such a unified way our sympathy and our solidarity with the people of…
11 May 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
It really is hard to over-emphasise the importance of the site. Anglesey Aluminium provided very good jobs for thousands of people over four decades. We have to ensure that sustainable economic activity—a new era of good jobs, if you like—is brought to the…
11 May 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
5. Will the Minister provide an update on efforts to safeguard and create jobs on the former Anglesey Aluminium site? OQ58028
11 May 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
I appreciate that. This nurse certainly was concerned about the staffing levels in general, and clearly the over-dependency on agency staff. I was told that the majority of nurses that came from Spain a few years ago, after a recruitment campaign, have…
11 May 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you, Llywydd. It's Nurses Day tomorrow, and I'd like to thank nurses in all parts of Wales for their care and dedication. But I want to draw the Minister's attention to concerns that have been raised with me by a nurse, who tells me that they represent…
10 May 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: The Health and Social Care Outcome Framework
That is so true, but I don't see the signs of the kind of revolution I would like to see. I remember, after a recent statement, I accused the Minister of having missed a nought from the end of a figure that was being spent on preventative measures, and I mean…
10 May 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: The Health and Social Care Outcome Framework
'Prevention at all stages needs to be embedded in our actions'.
10 May 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: The Health and Social Care Outcome Framework
Thank you, Minister, for this statement. I don't disagree with the wording or the content, and I don't disagree with the aim here. Who would disagree with the aim of trying to create a healthier nation? What concerns me a little is that we could be tied up…
10 May 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on COVID-19
—I wrote to the First Minister on 27 April, asking him to correct the Record, the Senedd Record, after he said that responsibility for the COVID public inquiry 'has moved into the hands of the independent judge who has been appointed to lead it.' He was…
10 May 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on COVID-19
Thank you for the statement. I think I have three questions. There are few changes, if truth be told, by now. I'm pleased that the evidence, not so much the testing now, but the ONS evidence and the wastewater evidence—does suggest that the situation is…
10 May 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for that response. At least 8,000 people in Wales have a chronic hepatitis C infection, but we could eradicate hepatitis C entirely. That's the good news. But, although eradication is possible, and Wales in the past has taken major steps towards…
10 May 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
3. Will the First Minister provide an update on the Welsh Government's target to eliminate hepatitis C in Wales? OQ58030
4 May 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the Centre for Mental Health and Society at Bangor University, Platfform and Psychologists for Social Change
Okay. Thank you, all. We could go on and on on that.
4 May 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the Centre for Mental Health and Society at Bangor University, Platfform and Psychologists for Social Change
And it's also about making sure that the skills are there within that really wider workforce—teachers, for example—to deal with mental health issues. Dr Daffin on that.
4 May 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the Centre for Mental Health and Society at Bangor University, Platfform and Psychologists for Social Change
Thank you. And Professor Poole.
4 May 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the Centre for Mental Health and Society at Bangor University, Platfform and Psychologists for Social Change
We appreciate that, thank you very much. Dr Daffin, where do you begin on the capacity of the workforce, really?
4 May 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the Centre for Mental Health and Society at Bangor University, Platfform and Psychologists for Social Change
This next question from me is just to invite some thoughts of yours, really, because we can't possibly do justice to the topic—it's about workforce. So, just maybe an overarching message from the three of you on the capacity of the specialist mental health…
