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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
Would you say then that you're like-minded on the two-child benefit cap?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
Would you take an intervention?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
—and targets by which we can measure the delivery of real change.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
Currently, the Welsh Government's child poverty strategy infamously contains no targets and, as such, has been roundly criticised by the children’s commissioner, the Senedd's Equality and Social Justice Committee and numerous children’s organisations and…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
Yn fy nghyfle olaf i holi’r Prif Weinidog blaenorol, gofynnais iddo a fyddai Llywodraeth Lafur Cymru yn galw ar ei chwaer Lywodraeth Lafur yn San Steffan, a oedd newydd ei hethol, i gael gwared ar y cap ar fudd-daliadau a'r terfyn dau blentyn. Pan wnes i…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
When she set out her priorities, the First Minister said she would build a fairer, greener and more prosperous nation, a Wales where every young person can feel happy and hopeful for the future. Well, if that's the case, the Welsh Government must set out, as…
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90-second Statements
In the last decade, they’ve expanded their reach with UK tours of Tom, Eye of the Storm, a Welsh Shirley Valentine, and Operation Julie. And during the COVID pandemic, they produced online content, including a hit Welsh language Christmas song, 'Hwyl yr Ŵyl'…
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90-second Statements
Welsh history, the Welsh language and our culture in all of their diversity are central to their productions, from school shows to national tours.
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90-second Statements
This year, Theatr na nÓg, rooted in the Valleys and based in Neath, celebrates its fortieth birthday. The organisation brings to life inspirational stories of Welsh characters who achieve the extraordinary, like their new play The Fight, about Cuthbert…
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Motion under Standing Order 26.79 to withdraw the Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill
Diolch, Cabinet Secretary. I still haven't heard why. On the points that Siân Gwenllian, Adam Price and others have made, what has changed? Because you already knew all this. Everything that you've said in your response, we already knew when you asked us to…
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Motion under Standing Order 26.79 to withdraw the Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill
I'm going to start with two quotations: 'Evidence from around the world shows that increasing the number of women legislators can lead to a more effective legislature, and over 130 countries, including Ireland, use quotas for this purpose.' 'It’s a vital…
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Statement by the First Minister: Inter-governmental relations
After telling me to write to my MP about decisions taken by the UK Government that harm the people of Wales, and chiding Plaid Cymru for asking you to stand up for the people of Wales, I think I need to remind you about how the present devolution settlement…
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Short Debate: Rhondda Cynon Taf National Eisteddfod: Securing a legacy for the Welsh language in the Valleys
Thank you, Heledd. It was a week to remember. I’m certainly of the view that that was the best Eisteddfod that there’s ever been, apart from a few others, such as the one held in Neath, perhaps. But what’s wonderful is that I do think it proved just how…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting lists
Given Keir Starmer's continued refusal to scrap the outdated Barnett formula and replace it with a funding arrangement that truly reflects the needs of our population—and the First Minister's refusal to speak up for the people of Wales when the Labour Prime…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting lists
I’d like to speak specifically to the part of our motion that regrets the decision made by the Labour UK Government to continue to apply austerity policies, and the impact that this has on our national health service. Austerity is damaging to people’s health…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Winter fuel payment
Perhaps I could just clarify that what I meant when I was talking about austerity is an approach to fiscal policy. That's the shorthand, isn't it? It's austerity fiscal policy. It's about the pretence of saying that you can cut and therefore try and somehow…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Winter fuel payment
Thank you, Llywydd dros dro. Plaid Cymru agrees with the contents of the Conservatives' motion today and we will be supporting it. We share the concerns that around 400,000 households in Wales will lose hundreds of pounds' worth of support, following the…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Diolch, Cabinet Secretary. The decision to limit the winter fuel payment to pensioners receiving pension credit has, of course, raised wide concerns. The older people's commissioner, Age Cymru, Carers Wales and National Energy Action are among those who have…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
I’m glad you mentioned the Warm Homes programme, because many of the thousands of people across Wales who provide essential, unpaid care to loved ones, saving the NHS and social services millions of pounds, are going to be amongst the hardest hit by this…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Diolch, Llywydd. You berate the Tories, rightly, for 14 years of austerity, but the Labour Government are continuing with that flawed and damaging fiscal approach. Two worrying statistics for you as we head into the winter months: the last available excess…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Universal primary free school meals
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Universalism is the cornerstone of the free school meal policy, developed because of the co-operation agreement with Plaid Cymru, because it is ensures that no-one falls between the gaps. There's no cliff edge of eligibility, the…
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Statement by the First Minister: Tata Steel
Those who'll be losing their jobs mostly live in the communities that I represent, and, despite your claims, Prif Weinidog, nothing has changed for the steelworkers and their families and we really do owe it to them to cut the spin. The fact is that the…
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Statement by the First Minister: Government priorities
There was no mention made in your statement about child poverty. It’s very disappointing. I asked you when you became First Minister to put tackling child poverty at the top of your agenda and restore targets. That’s what provides delivery, First…
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Statement by the First Minister: Government priorities
You said you wanted to listen to people who didn’t have power, didn’t have a loud voice. Do you know who don’t have power, and who don’t have a loud voice? Children, especially children in poverty.
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Questions to the First Minister
There are other choices for 'balancing the books', as you phrase it. Around 82,000 pensioners in my region will lose out due to the UK Government's plan to cut the winter fuel payment. Your own Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice said that the move by Labour…
