, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 6
Some witnesses have called for an arm's-length development corporation to lead on strategic land management and bring forward large-scale sites. Do you agree with that opinion? Is there scope for that kind of model?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 6
So, what you're saying maybe is that we don't really know whether the one-bedroomed stat, if you like—. We're being told all the time, aren't we, that we need more one-bedroomed properties, but you're saying maybe that that doesn't quite stack up anyway?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 6
Thank you, Chair, and I'm very pleased to join this committee. After a period of working on the co-operation agreement, it's great to be back doing scrutiny work as part of this committee, and I think that this area is a very important one for us to be…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
The unnecessary delay is a major step backwards. I am drawing to a close. Could you please ensure that the amended timetable does allow for the full package of reforms to be implemented and that there should be no rowing back on the pledge made in your…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
As chair of the cross-party group on women, I am extremely disappointed that there won't be a Stage 1 debate on the candidates Bill this afternoon, as intended, and that it's been pushed back a month to 16 July. This will mean, of course, that Stage 2 won't…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Planning policy for new power lines
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. Ten years ago, the National Grid had the intention of installing a corridor of pylons across Ynys Môn and over the Menai Straits. There was a strong campaign by local people, led by Plaid Cymru, and, in the end, the grid…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Mental health and learning disability services at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Those are findings that are terrifying and disappointing, aren't they? And they are significant issues that need to be resolved, never mind the other issues that have emerged in the wake of this review. They need to be resolved, they need to be resolved…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Mental health and learning disability services at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
'The large number of interim posts was a particular concern to the review team, who were not clear that there was full multidisciplinary input at a senior management level'.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Mental health and learning disability services at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
And thirdly:
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Mental health and learning disability services at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
'A consultant nurse with specific responsibility for dementia within the directorate had not been appointed. The review team was concerned about the lack of psychological input and multidisciplinary working in the Hergest unit.'
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Mental health and learning disability services at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Secondly:
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Mental health and learning disability services at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
'The review team recommend that urgent attention is given to ensuring that all remedial works necessary to ensure patient safety are completed, and this particularly applies to ligature risks.'
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Mental health and learning disability services at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
I was concerned and disappointed to read the Government's amendment to Plaid Cymru's motion, an amendment that claims that that the majority of the recommendations have been implemented. Unfortunately, that's just not true, because of the 84 individual…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
We know that more students from Wales are going outside Wales to study undergraduate dentistry courses at university than those who stay here—20 stay in Wales and 40 go outside Wales, according to the latest figures. Do you accept that this is neither…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
1. How is the Cabinet Secretary working with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care to realise the aspects of the Dental Strategic Workforce Plan recently published by Health Education and Improvement Wales that relate to higher education? OQ61238
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language
Elysteg Llwyd Thomas and Toni Schiavone have been brought before the courts as part of a pan-Wales campaign to require private parking companies to respect the Welsh language. You decided not to proceed with using powers that would have placed duties on…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language
1. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement about what is required of private parking companies regarding the use of the Welsh language? OQ61198
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I would like to ask for a Government statement following the court judgment with regard to the former head of Ysgol Friars in Bangor. Children in my constituency and beyond have suffered a great deal. My heart bleeds for them and for their families, and I…
, Plenary
Short Debate: A rural poverty strategy for Wales
Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this important debate. In a report commissioned by the Bevan Foundation on poverty in Arfon, the fact was underlined that there's a cost-of-living premium in rural parts of Arfon as a result of a lack of…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you for your patience, Llywydd. I was pleased to hear the First Minister yesterday, and yourself, Cabinet Secretary, this afternoon, restating the Government’s stance, namely a presumption against new gas-fired power stations in Arfon and elsewhere, and…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you very much for restating the Government's stance, and I was very pleased to hear the First Minister also saying this during questions to the First Minister yesterday.
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
1. What discussions has the Cabinet Secretary had with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language on the impact of plans to build gas-fired power plants in Arfon on Government climate change targets? OQ61091
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
There is concern locally that an application will be submitted for a gas-fired electricity generating plant in a former quarry in Caernarfon. As you say, you can't discuss individual plans, but I would like to know what exactly the Government's policy stance…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
3. What is the Government's policy on new gas-fired power plants in Arfon? OQ61090
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Thank you very much. At the end of last year, there were only two educational psychologists in Gwynedd and Môn, operating at a rate of one to every 13,000 children. That's an incredible workload, which means that some of the most vulnerable children in the…
