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Questions to the First Minister
I take from your answer, First Minister, that we do not have dedicated surgical hubs here in Wales. I appreciate that you identified three, I think it was, hospitals there that have areas identified for specialist surgery, but they wouldn't fall under the…
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Questions to the First Minister
I appreciate the context is a challenging picture, to say the least, First Minister. Other parts of the United Kingdom have managed to bring the extensive waiting lists that they had for the two-year period down and, in fact, in some cases, eliminated those…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. If I may, with your permission, put on the record my sincere thanks and my group's thanks to the Commission staff over the events of the period of mourning, and in particular the extensive preparations that went into the King's…
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Motion of condolence and tributes to Her Majesty The Queen
Thank you, Presiding Officer, and my party's group and I support the motion before the Senedd this afternoon. On hearing the news on Thursday, after seeing the images of the Queen obviously accepting the new Prime Minister and putting her into office, it was…
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Debate: Welsh Government Annual Report—Delivering our well-being objectives
But I would like to start with the comments that I raised with the First Minister in the First Minister's question session that we had this afternoon. The one overriding narrative that has dominated the last 12 months has been the NHS waiting times, and the…
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Debate: Welsh Government Annual Report—Delivering our well-being objectives
Thank you, Presiding Officer, and I formally move the amendment in the name of Darren Millar on the order paper this afternoon. And, before I start my contribution, I'd also like to put on record, over the last 12 months, my group's sincere thanks to all the…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, if you want to debate the Conservative leadership contest, I'll happily provide you with a membership form and you can come to the hustings. I will also—[Interruption.] I will also quite happily sit on any tv platform and debate with you on…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for the explanation on the tie, First Minister. It's always good to have a bit of good news in this Chamber. But there is another way, because as we've seen in England with two-year waits, those figures peaked at 23,000 waiting two years or more out…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. Could I comment on the First Minister's tie? Looking very loud today, with a knot at the top of it, which isn't usual for the First Minister, in fairness. Perhaps it's the end-of-term feeling that he has. [Laughter.] I'd just…
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Statement by the First Minister: The Legislative Programme
So, I'll touch on the five Bills that the First Minister has highlighted, and rather than looking backwards, looking forward to what the First Minister's Government will be bringing forward in the next legislative session. And the clean air Bill, which he and…
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Statement by the First Minister: The Legislative Programme
Thank you, First Minister, for your statement this afternoon, and I do put on record my thanks to the Government lawyers and the Senedd lawyers who do assist us in our scrutiny of legislation and bringing that legislation forward. We can disagree on the…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, the Government in 2015 made that commitment to, obviously, phase out the use of B&Bs, hostels and budget hotels. Do you still stand by that commitment? I appreciate that seven years have passed, but is it still a Government priority to stick…
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Questions to the First Minister
I'm grateful for that answer, First Minister, but the fact of the matter is that a pledge was made seven years ago, in 2015, and some of the answer that you gave me today about highlighting good practice in local authorities such as Carmarthenshire, such as…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. Could I just send a warm welcome to colleagues in the gallery from Pakistan, who are attending from one of the regional assemblies and watching our proceedings today? First Minister, why has the Welsh Government failed in its…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 2023 Eurovision Song Contest
I’ve read on the order paper your amendment, but I don’t think, under the rules of the competition, we could enter it, just like the Basque Country couldn’t enter, and Spain is the representative of the Spanish entry to the competition. So, the rules do not…
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Topical Questions
Thank you, Minister, for that response. The waiting times are horrendous for eye treatments anywhere in Wales. And there are difficulties across the United Kingdom; I accept that, Minister. Dr Williams highlights three points that he believes need dramatic…
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Topical Questions
2. Will the Minister make a statement on the warning by Dr Gwyn Williams, of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, that a tide of avoidable blindness could sweep Wales if eye care services are not reformed? TQ647
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Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Minister, abandonment of pets is a big issue and it always has been a big issue. For some residents of homes, they have to abandon their companion animals because in the rented sector, some landlords say that no pets are allowed. In Westminster, they are…
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Debate: Stage 4 of the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill
Thank you for taking the intervention, Minister. Last week, I intervened about the provisions regarding higher education institutions and the provisions that could force amalgamations of those institutions with the provisions that are contained in the Bill…
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Debate: Stage 4 of the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill
Will the Minister take an intervention?
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, the point I'm making to you is that you took the plaudits, and rightly took the plaudits, that you identified yourself as a supersponsor Government for refugees coming from the horrors that we are seeing in Ukraine, and we all want to play our…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for that response, First Minister. I’m in agreement with you that the centres offer that initial support, that initial sense of safety and sanctuary after coming from such turmoil as there is in Ukraine. But what’s really important is to understand…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. First Minister, two weeks ago, the Government announced that it was temporarily suspending its Ukrainian refugee scheme of being the supersponsor for refugees coming to Wales, a scheme that we welcomed when it was officially…
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Group 15: Dissolution of higher education corporations (Amendments 103, 104)
Some years ago, the then Minister for education wanted to amalgamate Newport university, the University of Glamorgan and the university of Cardiff Metropolitan here in Cardiff. Under the powers that you're putting through in this Bill, would the Minister be…
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Group 15: Dissolution of higher education corporations (Amendments 103, 104)
Will the Minister take an intervention?
