23 March 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Food Security
Stand up. If the Deputy Minister—
23 March 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Food Security
No, I'm happy to take the intervention. [Interruption.] Stand up.
23 March 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Food Security
There's a natural abundance of food in Costa Rica, but the people in Costa Rica are also struggling under the cost pressures of importing food, and that's why we bring debates to the floor of the Senedd today, because we need greater food security. It is a…
23 March 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Food Security
Thank you, Presiding Officer. It's a pleasure to sum up this debate today and follow on from the Minister. I did offer the Minister the opportunity to point to a country that isn't receiving the same price pressures that we are in the United Kingdom, and I'd…
23 March 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Food Security
I'm grateful for that. Could you name me another country that isn't experiencing the cost pressures that we're experiencing in the UK that we could use as an example?
23 March 2022 , Plenary
Debate on the Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee Report: 'A new direction for HGV Drivers—Addressing HGV drivers shortages and related supply chain Issues'
I'm really grateful to you for taking the intervention. I could close my eyes now and be listening to a former regional Member from north Wales, the late Brynle Williams, who, some 14 years ago, was raising this very issue on a constant basis about rest stops…
23 March 2022 , Plenary
Debate on the Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee Report: 'A new direction for HGV Drivers—Addressing HGV drivers shortages and related supply chain Issues'
Will the Member take an intervention?
23 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you, Minister, for that response. Last year, I questioned you over the referral times in the Cardiff and Vale health board area, and in particular the woeful referral times of the 28-day assessment period, where Cardiff and Vale were only assessing a…
23 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
1. What is the Welsh Government doing to tackle mental health waiting lists in Wales? OQ57840
23 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
Thank you, Minister, for that answer. Obviously, this wasn't part of the original business plan, this purchase of Aberthaw power station, and the plans that have come forward are dynamic, in fairness, with the potential of 5,000 jobs to be created over the…
23 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
2. What discussions has the Minister had with Cardiff capital region regarding its purchase of Aberthaw power station? OQ57832
22 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Clearly, the chair of the dental profession in the Dyfed Powys health board area really does feel that there is a potential for the collapse of services, hence why he has written on behalf of his members to the health Minister on this particular issue. We…
22 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for that answer, First Minister. You identified that there are challenges within the dental service across Wales, but there are in fact 83 fewer dentists working across Welsh health boards than there were in 2020. This is probably not helped by the…
22 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. First Minister, we often talk about the consequences of shutting down parts of the NHS to deal with coronavirus, which has left 20 per cent of the Welsh population on an NHS waiting list, and, of those 20 per cent, one in four…
16 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
I thank the Commissioner for that response. As someone who can remember coming down the bay here when it was being redeveloped in the late 1980s and it was a quagmire of black mud, basically, I'm pleased to see that there has been improvement, not just on the…
16 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
2. Will the Commission provide an update on biodiversity on the Senedd estate? OQ57786
15 March 2022 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
But it is important to understand—. Well, it's in my declaration of interests. So, it is important to understand what the actual accountability thresholds and the scrutiny thresholds are. And importantly, I think, the Senedd needs to consider how it can…
15 March 2022 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Leader of the house, is it possible to have a statement from the economy Minister in relation to the Cardiff capital region? We all hope that the Cardiff capital region succeeds in its ambition to increase gross value added and increase the number of quality…
15 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
The upsetting thing about this, First Minister, is obviously that this was identified as a failure in 2013, and was still identified in 2021 as being a contributory factor to one of these deaths. Also, First Minister, the health Minister and the Government…
15 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister, for that report. You have been a Minister within the Government for nine years, and the First Minister now for several years, and things clearly are not improving fast enough when it comes to mental health services in north Wales…
15 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Presiding Officer. First Minister, it is with regret that I have to raise with you another report about service failure in Betsi Cadwaladr health board in north Wales. In the most recent report, which made for very distressing reading, we learnt of…
9 March 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Ukraine
And Jayne Bryant asked the question about visas. I do believe that there does need to be checks when people are applying to come here, but there is a model we can use; it's the model that was used when the Hong Kong situation was spiralling out of control…
9 March 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Ukraine
Thank you, Presiding Officer. I am very proud, to say the least, that it is the Welsh Conservatives that have tabled the motion today, and in particular of the 12 contributors who have put their names forward to speak, and spoken so powerfully and eloquently…
9 March 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Ukraine
I'm grateful for that, Joyce. We are supporting the Government amendment tonight. I want to be crystal clear: the Welsh Conservatives want to see greater flexibility in the system to make sure that we can welcome as many refugees as possible to this country…
9 March 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Ukraine
Will you take an intervention?
