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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
There we are. So, I move to item 3 and, under Standing Order 17.42, can I resolve that we exclude the public from the remainder of today's meeting. Are Members content with that? Thank you. In that case, we will now proceed to private session.
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Goodbye.
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Diolch yn fawr. Thank you, Professor Hughes. So, can I thank you for your time in committee this morning? Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you ever so much. We'll send you a copy of the transcript of proceedings and, over the next day or so, we will publish our…
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Thank you, Professor Hughes. I'm looking at Members to see if there are any—. Yes, I can see Rhun ap Iorwerth.
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Thank you, Professor Hughes. I think you answered all of the questions I had very ably there, but I suppose, perhaps, just how do you think your role—you mentioned four or five years into the future—how is your role as the chair going to be measured, perhaps…
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Thank you, Professor Hughes. I'll perhaps have a series of last questions to you, but this is the last set of questions, I think, as we come to a close, so I'd like to give you the opportunity, really, to tell us anything and draw anything from you that you…
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
And, perhaps, how do you do that?
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Thank you, Joyce. Professor Hughes, in your response to Joyce Watson there you did focus a lot on ethnic diversity, but I wonder if you could perhaps talk a little bit about broader diversity such as age or disability or sex or gender, perhaps, in the context…
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Not at all a problem, Jack, thank you. Diolch yn fawr. Joyce Watson.
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
You've just frozen again, Jack.
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
We can hear you now, Jack. Go ahead.
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Jack, sorry, can I interrupt? Just at the start of your question, you froze, so you might have to ask the question again.
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
I think, Jack, you've just frozen for a moment. I'm not quite sure. We'll just pause for a moment and just make sure that it's just on a temporary pause. Sorry.
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Diolch, Rhun. Jack Sargeant.
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
I was just making sure that I wasn't on mute there. Rhun ap Iorwerth.
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Diolch yn fawr. Mike Hedges.
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Thank you, Professor Hughes. In terms of, perhaps, experience you may have gained within the health and social care sector, perhaps you could talk a little bit to any experience you've got in those fields and how that would bring added benefit to you as the…
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
Thank you, Professor Hughes, and I can see from your CV that you've got a great depth of experience in supporting public bodies and setting them up. You've touched on it a little bit, but I wonder if you could perhaps expand a bit further on how your…
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Pre-appointment hearing with the Chair of the Citizen Voice Body: evidence session with the Welsh Government's preferred candidate
In that case, eitem 2, item 2, this morning, is an opportunity for members of the Health and Social Care Committee to question the Government's preferred candidate for the role of chair of the Citizen Voice Body. So, I would like to welcome this morning our…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Bore da. Croeso, pawb. I'd like to welcome Members to the Health and Social Care Committee this morning. I move to item 1. This meeting is a fully virtual meeting this morning, so it's being conducted via video-conference, but Standing Orders remain in place…
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Paper(s) to note
We move to item 7 today, and there are two papers to note: one from the Chair of the Petitions Committee, who is sat with us today, to this committee in regards to a petition, and one from the Welsh Government in terms of their response to the committee's…
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the Children's Commissioner for Wales and the Older People's Commissioner for Wales
Thank you. Right, thank you, all, very much, and also for your evidence papers. We'll send you a transcript of proceedings, and by all means, do follow the rest of the proceedings of the other work. And if you have any further thoughts that you think you need…
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the Children's Commissioner for Wales and the Older People's Commissioner for Wales
So, thank you, Sally.
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the Children's Commissioner for Wales and the Older People's Commissioner for Wales
—past or predecessor committees, yes. So, we'd like to certainly wish you well for the future, Sally, and thank you for your work over the last several years.
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with the Children's Commissioner for Wales and the Older People's Commissioner for Wales
Lovely. Thank you ever so much. Well, thank you for this session today. Sorry if parts were rushed, it's just getting through all the questions we wanted to get through today. But, Sally, this is your last session with this committee or—
