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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Dementia
'The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.' Sioned Williams, it's true that there is huge pressure on people like your mother as she cared for your father. I remember reading a diagnosis letter for my father in 2013, and I had no idea what the future held…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Dementia
Jenny Rathbone mentioned the need for more research—in this case, into air pollution and junk food. I can only give anecdotal evidence here, but out of three siblings, my father and his sister who lived throughout their lives in Cardiff had dementia, and…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Dementia
Paul Davies mentioned people with dementia not feeling like part of their community, and that's true even in an area like Preseli Pembrokeshire, where there are so many close-knit communities. I'm sure things are even worse in certain other areas. Paul…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Dementia
As everyone else has done, I thank Luke for pursuing this, for tabling this debate. It was a hard debate to listen to—a very hard debate to listen to—you must have a very hard heart if you haven't been touched by the debate today, but I'm heartened to see…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Dementia
Deputy Presiding Officer, as many in this Chamber will know, reforming the care sector is very important to me. Like for many others, it's a personal thing too. It was said yesterday in the Chamber that the word 'crisis' is overused. That's true, perhaps, but…
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90-second Statements
Sorry, Llywydd.
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90-second Statements
Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd. As a young boy, the name Betty Campbell came up many times in conversation at home. She was in school with my auntie, and through education and local politics in Cardiff became firm friends with my father. I was always in awe of…
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Environment Bill
I turn to Labour backbenchers and urge you to vote against this. Alun Davies warned us again last week that devolution is dead—the process is over, we need to fight for it. The First Minister also said yesterday that it 'cannot be the limit of the ambition of…
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Environment Bill
We here are Members of the Welsh Parliament at a time when the Westminster Government is undermining our devolution settlement—that is a fact. Listen to the numbers: in the fourth Senedd, there were eight Westminster Bills that required consent; now, in the…
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Environment Bill
Only in 2015, Boris Johnson wrote in The Daily Telegraph—and he was paid kindly for it—that warm weather in winter has nothing to do with global warming. And we also remember, don't we, his quote about rice pudding skin and wind turbines?
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Environment Bill
On an issue of fundamental principle, Deputy Llywydd—a fundamental constitutional principle—it's the Welsh Senedd that should legislate in devolved areas. It is as simply as that. Areas such as the climate emergency are far too important to be left to Boris…
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Environment Bill
I am told that the First Minister yesterday at Brighton received a standing ovation. Obviously, I wasn't there to witness it, but he said this—he described the importance of retaining power in order to make a difference in our communities. Yet, today, we have…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Codes of Welsh law: A programme to improve the accessibility of Welsh law
As you've said several times, Counsel General, Welsh sovereignty is not in the hands of men like Hywel Dda, but rather it's in the hands of the people of Wales here. Having said that, the spirit of Hywel Dda and the spirit of Iorwerth ap Madog are to be heard…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Codes of Welsh law: A programme to improve the accessibility of Welsh law
And if the situation isn't difficult, isn't complicated enough, aren't you as Welsh Government adding to the complexity and breaching your duty under the Legislation (Wales) Act 2019 by consenting so often to the Westminster Government passing legislation…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Codes of Welsh law: A programme to improve the accessibility of Welsh law
It complicates the situation further that the laws that are made in this Senedd, and laws made in Westminster, extend to Wales and England, even though the laws only relate to England perhaps. They're part of the same legal system even though perhaps they…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Codes of Welsh law: A programme to improve the accessibility of Welsh law
This announcement, however, does not clarify a lot of the issues, including laws that apply only to England yet form the law of England and Wales. It's very difficult to identify whether the laws passed by the UK Parliament apply to England, apply to England…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Codes of Welsh law: A programme to improve the accessibility of Welsh law
Thank you very much, temporary Presiding Officer. Counsel General, I welcome this statement greatly. I also welcome the talk about the laws of Hywel Dda at the outset of your statement. It's important that we destroy the myth here in the Senedd that we don't…
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Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Diolch yn fawr. If I could just ask one final question, Chair, it's about data, the one thing that has really impeded planning with regard to the Welsh justice system and has caused real issues with the Thomas commission also—the lack of specific Welsh data…
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Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Thank you, Counsel General. I'm glad to hear that you are looking at the practicalities of how to call for the devolution of justice, and I'm pleased also about the establishment of the law council. But what about the other—? I think about a third of the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
The first question in Welsh: what are the Welsh Government's priorities for justice in the sixth Senedd?
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Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Thank you, Chair. I'm sure we could spend more than half an hour of work just on this topic alone, but I'll be brief.
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Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
I'm sure the Chair will be very glad of that quick answer, and I'll pass you back to him now. Diolch yn fawr.
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Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
I'm sure you won't be surprised to hear that I'm glad to hear that, Counsel General. With one eye on the Chair, if I could just ask another question: I think you have alluded to it, about maybe the lack of impact of this legal challenge or that the legal…
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Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
I'm going to ask this question in Welsh about the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020. What processes are in place by the Welsh Government to assess and consider the implications of that Act on Welsh Government legislation?
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Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Another big topic, I'm afraid, Counsel General.
