, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning and welcome to the Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs Committee
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Ophthalmology services
In many of these debates, people get up and make very grand speeches, but I think probably the best speech I've ever heard was just made by Gwyn. I think he said everything I wanted to say. I don't intend to repeat everything that went on, because I agree…
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Debate: Fair Funding
Thank you. Take the romantic argument out of it—let's get down to the pure facts of the matter. Any change to Barnett requires all nations of the United Kingdom to agree to it. Scotland, Northern Ireland and England all need to agree, and I've not heard…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Priorities for social care, mental health and women's health
On social care, the Deputy Minister spoke about a national care service, something I have long opposed as an unnecessary additional level of bureaucracy and a drain on vital public money. A national care academy, fair pay and conditions, better support for…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Priorities for social care, mental health and women's health
Can I thank the Deputy Minister for her statement today and congratulate her on her appointment? There's a lot in this statement, and Members across this Chamber, I'm sure, will welcome the recognition of unpaid carers, the commitment to improving mental…
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Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, I'd like to ask for two statements, please, the first one on the school organisation code, from the Cabinet Minister for education, because we're seeing yet again in Powys that the local authority is going out to consultation potentially about…
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, people in Powys are being asked to accept less and less from their health service across the county. First, Powys Teaching Health Board delayed cross-border treatment because of budget pressures, leaving patients in mid Wales waiting longer…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and care winter 2026-27 preparedness
I'd like to thank the Cabinet Minister for his statement, and I do welcome the fact that preparations for winter have begun early, because if there's one thing we all know, it's that winter pressures cannot be solved in December when the system is already…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Improving Leadership and Performance at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
I'd like to thank the Cabinet Minister for his statement. I welcome the fact that the Minister is taking further action on Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, but the people in north Wales have heard strong words before. They have heard promises of…
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Reform UK Debate: A Welsh Rivers Act
Yes. This is why catchment-wide nutrient management matters. The Bolton review into the control of agricultural pollution regulations is clear; it recognises the need for a more evidence-based, proportionate and risk-focused approach. This is important…
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Reform UK Debate: A Welsh Rivers Act
Diolch, Deputy Presiding Officer. Although my committee has not met yet, I'd just like to say that I am speaking in a personal capacity, not that of the committee. The motion calls for a Welsh rivers Act to address sewage discharge accountability, support…
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Reform UK Debate: A Welsh Rivers Act
Thank you. Do you not recognise, though, that farming by calendar doesn't work? What you can have is a very dry period during the closed period when farmers cannot spread slurry, but then in the open period they could actually go spreading when it's pouring…
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Reform UK Debate: A Welsh Rivers Act
Will the Member take an intervention?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Hospital services and hospital closures
Do you see the benefit of the prevention agenda, though, and the rehabilitation of people and how sport and physical activity can actually help with that to get people fit and ready for their operations? That does fit, in part, with the cultural budget as…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Hospital services and hospital closures
Diolch, Lywydd. I formally move our amendment, tabled in the name of Llŷr Powell. The motion before us is very clear: it calls on the Welsh Government to rule out hospital closures and the downgrading of hospital services for the duration of this Senedd. That…
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Questions to the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport
I agree, but one thing we need to see is pace in this. When are we going to see those facilities being open to communities? Because we've had these conversations before. I know that you and I have discussed this in this Chamber in the past, and it's been…
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Questions to the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport
Thank you, Cabinet Minister. As you talked about cross-portfolio work, one thing that has become clear is access to sports facilities. If we want more people taking up sport and physical activity, they need to have access to good facilities. One thing that I…
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Questions to the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport
Thank you, Llywydd. Cabinet Minister, in the supplementary budget that was announced yesterday, there was an extra £2 million given for school swimming, something that I and my party wholeheartedly support, because we need to make sure that more young people…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Delivering on our priorities: Reducing waiting times and strengthening primary care
Can I thank the Cabinet Minister for his statement? There is very little in the statement, I think, that anyone would disagree with—with its principle. We all want shorter waiting lists, better access to GPs, care closer to home, stronger prevention, better…
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Rural Resilience and Sustainability: Priorities for Rural Resilience and Sustainability
I'd like to register a declarable interest. Minister, you and I have both warned, for a number of years, about the reduction of our livestock, across the numbers and the critical numbers coming through our abattoirs, as was raised by Andrew R.T. Davies about…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank you, First Minister, for your answer. You mentioned there cross-border healthcare. You’ve announced £140 million to address waiting lists, but the previous Welsh Government brought forward £120 million to address waiting lists, and only £115,000 of…
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Questions to the First Minister
7. How is the Welsh Government improving access to healthcare in Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd? OQ64233
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Statement by the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport: Priorities for Culture and Sport
Gweinidog, I never thought I'd find the day that you and I would agree on quite a lot of what's in your statement. I do agree with the need for investment in sport, because we do know that that is a key part of the prevention agenda, but warm words in a…
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Statement by the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport: Priorities for Culture and Sport
Thank you, Cabinet Minister, for your statement today.
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Reform UK Debate: Childcare offer
Diolch, Lywydd. I'd like to raise a point of order that, during the debate, I believe that Kiera Marshall described the motion tabled in a way that does not reflect what it actually says, and has deliberately misled the Senedd on what has been tabled before…
