, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
A choice for regions to make, not for Ministers and for people here.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Yes, I don't agree with you. I think we've had this debate several times before about when does a petition reach the end of its life in this committee. And I think it doesn't mean that people stop caring, and it doesn't even mean that the Senedd has stopped…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
I think Lindsay's example highlights exactly the difficulty of the issue. If you go to a local hospital that doesn't have the provision you need—. You can take longer to get to somewhere, but it could actually be the right care. If you go to the wrong place…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Can I just say, Chair—?
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Yes. Thank you. We've considered this petition a number of times and it, of course, had a Senedd debate in October last year. At our last meeting, the committee, by majority, agreed to write to the health board and we've received a response back from the…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
I do agree that we should write again, because it's been such a long-running issue without reaching an end point, and the water summits that are taking place are about understanding the impact on water quality and that isn't just about issues about…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Fine. I'm—[Inaudible.]
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Yes, thank you. It's a petition that has garnered significant attention in a short period of time. So, if we were three months earlier, we'd be recommending it for a debate, but that time is unlikely to be available to us in the last sitting month that we…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Yes. Once it's supposed to have been rolled out, after 12 months, what has been the experience? What does improvement actually look like? And the voice of Llais and their own engagement in supporting families as well. I think that would be important and…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
I think, again, it would be pretty unusual if a future health committee did not want to look at the roll-out of a new policy like this and what had happened. But I think it is worth us making sure that we directly put that point to them.
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Yes. I think we should write to them to ask them to consider whether they want to have this as an issue in their legacy report for a future committee.
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
I'm going to say something, because Members may or may not have noticed the death of a young woman, Bethan James, who was a constituent of mine. I've met her parents, Jane and Steve James. They had to fight for a coroner's inquest, and there was criticism of…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
The art of the compromise—that's how life works.
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Yes. I disagree with Lindsay, not just having been a Cabinet Minister for health with responsibility across difficult organisational challenges, but also I too have been a patient where my GP practice has closed down and been dispersed. You have the same…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
There's the challenge of wait times for accident or emergency treatments, and accident treatment would include minor injury units. Those who have the joy of being parents have probably visited a minor injury unit at some point, if not an A&E. It's a normal…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
I agree with lots up until the point of keeping the petition open, because the work that the CYPE committee, which I'm also a member of, is doing is going to conclude as part of its report, and I think it is unthinkable that a successor committee, the main…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion: The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Thank you. I follow the logic of the Member's argument and many of the views from different points across the Chamber, and I respect the difference in views, the different perspectives, including those who are going to vote on the principle of the Bill as…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Government - Education
Can I just ask too? The commitment to have AI training courses available for every UK adult I think is really welcome, but how does that sit alongside, or will it be taken into account that there's this other offer that is UK funded and is available directly…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Government - Education
Great, that's good news.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Government - Education
I want to go back to the paper that you published on the future of tertiary education in Wales. Now, within that—I'm going to read it, because otherwise I'll get the title wrong—you refer to a prospectus for the strategic direction of vocational education and…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Government - Education
Okay. I'll stop there, Chair, instead of going on.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Government - Education
Now, we could have a whole session just on this area—the future of learning for workers as well as work-based learning. I want to stick to the brief—and I don't need to look at the Chair for this—but the point with all of those different reforms you set out…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Government - Education
Thank you. Minister, you spoke earlier about a new helpful intervention about the junior apprenticeship programme. You've also said before this, in terms of the post-16 landscape that you're responsible for, that you think it's the responsibility of…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Government - Education
To be fair, I think the committee is very positive about the junior apprenticeship programme, and it's welcome that you've invested more in it.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Government - Education
That would be great. And if there's more you're doing in evaluating the effectiveness of this work, that would be really helpful for us to know as well. And I'll stop there, Chair.
