, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Annual Scrutiny of Medr
Your letter talked about a potential excess of 3,000 learners. So, it's not a small number.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Annual Scrutiny of Medr
There are two points I want to follow up. It's partly about funding, but also about, obviously, from a board point of view, that you've got legal duties about making provision for learners in further education, so I'm interested in how the waiting list…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Yes. They have needs, but they're not necessarily health needs.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Well, I think it's really easy to understand why. There were lots of functions then that weren't being run, so actually you had money that couldn't be spent and, in addition, in an emergency—and the pandemic was an extraordinary emergency—you go in and you…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Just briefly, Chair. It's much easier to point out the indignity of corridor care than say, 'Here is what to do about it and how', because you do have—. The largest number of staff that have ever worked in the NHS work in the NHS today, and still we have…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
And I'd suggest we close the petition at that point.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Yes, thank you. I think this is an interesting point in terms of the response from the transport police, noting that there is anti-social behaviour linked to the railway station, some of it from passengers, some of it around the rail line as well. And what I…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Yes.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
I don't agree. I think that the debate in Plenary is the end of the journey for this petition through the Senedd. If the health committee wants to take the matter up, that is a matter for them as the lead subject committee. When I joined the committee, I went…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
It's the outlier, isn't it?
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Obviously, the particular group, Breast Test Wales, are interested in this particular cancer. There is the broader point, though, that the screening equity strategy is more than just breast cancer. I think as well as writing to the Minister to seek answers…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
I'd say keep it open until we get the response, but my view for the committee is it would take something extraordinary to keep the petition running after that. There's a series of extra questions, but also we'll run out of time in the term as well. It does…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Yes, thank you, Chair. So, this petition is coming from two students, and I think the detail of it and the notes we have highlight a lively disagreement between the students and the Cabinet Secretary. It's fair to point out that the comparison that is made in…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
There's also something here about the fact that when you have to make choices, you can't keep everyone happy sometimes, but you still have to be able to make a choice. And you know that in your own life, in your house: sometimes, you make choices because you…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
And I'm sure you'll enjoy having NRW in front of you.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Fine.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
I think we've spent loads of time on this petition. We've had a debate in the Senedd, there'll be another one this week, there's scrutiny of NRW coming up in March as well. I think it's entirely reasonable if we want to write to NRW one more time, but to…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Yes. The Minister for mental health has confirmed that work is under way on a pathway to support new dads and partners, under the care of the specialist perinatal mental health team. The petitioner is actually a member of the perinatal steering group. He said…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Yes, this is the—. We considered the petition for the third time in November and we wrote to the First Minister. We've now had a response and the response, I think, is helpful and constructive, with an appetite for Wales and the Welsh Government to be…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
What's a community service and what's a specialist service, yes.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
I think this is specifically on what those services will be, how specialist will they be, what services will be available in a community or a more local setting. So, the way that our plan sets out where a centre may be doesn't mean that's the only place where…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
I think thank the petitioner, but this matter has already been dealt with in the plan that has been launched since the petition was started, and there's a specific point around endometriosis care, and there's a general point about funding, where the Cabinet…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Thank you. The reason I say that is we've agreed to take these broadly as a basket of issues, but, in particular, the response from the Government has moved on since the publication of the women's health plan. There was a debate—well, a statement with…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Yes. Do you want me to do this and the endometriosis one at the same time, Chair, or—?
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Chair—[Inaudible.]—as module 4 of the UK COVID inquiry has been mentioned, I will be giving written evidence to that module and many others, though I’m not sure yet whether I’ll be called to give oral evidence—just for the avoidance of doubt about why I…
