18 May 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?—evidence session 2
… the way we are, with the waiting lists as they are, there's going to be an awful lot of young people out there really struggling in schools for a long time …
12 February 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
… goodness, and we are focusing on other areas, inevitably, the audit and follow-through process still takes some time to work its way through. Obviously, we've had to align and allocate resource to oversee that process … waiting for some of the finalised information. So, there are about 400 outstanding pieces of information that we need. That's associated with, I think, about £20 million-worth of loans that were made at the time . That …
24 April 2024 , Plenary
Emergency Question: Incident in Ysgol Dyffryn Aman
… imagine what those hours of waiting to hear more news would have been like and what it would have meant. As you said, Minister, more details will emerge at the right time over the next days and weeks …
3 March 2026 , Plenary
Group 3: Remediation (Amendments 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 30, 62, 63)
… building helped the fire to spread. This has been described as one of the greatest disasters of modern times . And yet, there are far too many people still living in fear that a similar tragedy will happen again … Out of 473 tall buildings in Wales, 48 per cent—almost half of those buildings—are either still waiting to be inspected, or are waiting for work to start—almost half of all of those tall buildings that …
14 February 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session 2
… huge energy price increases, fuel increases more broadly as well, all that just comes at such a terrible time to be thinking, well, actually, Arbed, even though it's certainly not perfect, it's one of the really … charity, we don't know what that really looks like, and I'm conscious we're waiting on the evaluation of the Arbed programme, and I would hope that would come out with lots of really robust learning …
2 June 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… waits and corridor care experienced by some patients requires action to a systematic level. An important aspect of improving emergency care is keeping people out of hospital in the first place, as well as the safe and timely …
16 November 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Building Safety Act 2022
… The Welsh Government can talk of time constraints, a full legislative programme and a lengthy legislative process all they like, but it doesn't change the fact that people have been waiting for support and a response …
6 November 2024 , Plenary
Debate on petition P-06-1400, 'Fair and Adequate Resourcing of General Practice in Wales'
… have signed this petition, calling on the Government to offer a rescue package to GPs. It's high time that this Labour Government took responsibility and acted. Across Wales, we hear stories of people unable to get appointments … that seems to be designed to make it impossible to get help, and that means that patients are waiting around for hours for a callback just to see if you have an appointment, the alternative being an online …
8 January 2025 , Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Establishment of a school of dentistry in Bangor
… ticking time bomb in terms of storing up problems for the future, for the teeth health of our young people. There is no clear picture, though, of how many people are currently waiting to see an NHS dentist … how many people have been unable to get onto an NHS dentist waiting list. And there's currently still no centralised list. Not only this, but we've witnessed a slow decline in NHS dentists in Wales, impacting …
31 March 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Cost of living
… make this point a few times now, Chair, but I'll say it again—it can only be by recalibrating existing programmes. There is no pot of money sitting separately waiting to be used for these purposes. What …
28 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… this. Just to give you reassurance, those 30,000 that are on the two-year waiting list include all specialities, including the seven that we know are challenging. So, they're not excluded from the numbers. I think … time with this is that, actually, clinicians make calls on this. If there's an urgent case, they're going to take priority. And that's the challenge. Actually, if you look at the numbers on waiting lists …
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
… adjusted and added to in time . We've not had a lot of engagement either, to be honest, so I back what Anne has said in terms of having to wait and see …
2 December 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing people with different health conditions
… this equipment into GP services, and primary care was getting better at doing it. So, there was no waiting list. People would actually see a GP, see a practice nurse who would then do the spirometry, they could … And the reason that's not happening is because of a fear—first of all, justified, but as time 's gone on, it's no longer really justified now—that spirometry was seen as an aerosol-generating procedure …
2 June 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… Grange, and then at St Woolos. I saw the best of the Aneurin Bevan health board at that time , but also the huge pressures on the system. The staff were professional and kind, and they did their very … best under very difficult circumstances. I also saw what the pressures on the system mean for patients: long waits , lack of capacity, pressure in terms of beds. For me, the hardest thing to deal with was the difficulty …
29 March 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Local Authority Library and Leisure Services - evidence session 2
… particular skill, we're not waiting to either employ somebody out of a budget or to have an election—we can bring in that skill within a very short period of time because we have this rolling programme …
9 July 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… and during these times , 'local escalation measures are enacted.' But in the first quarter of 2025, every emergency department in Wales reported patients receiving care in unsafe and inappropriate places, with almost half waiting for an internal bed …
23 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… the backlog; it keeps me awake at night. The fact is that I'm spending most of my time these days trying to make sure that we have a very clear recovery plan. That planned care programme will … weeks. We're just trying to finalise the details on that. Tomorrow, you'll be aware that new waiting lists will come out, those results. I've been absolutely clear and open and honest. I think …
7 October 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care
… talk about up to 10 surgical hubs, it's not necessarily about building new ones all of the time , it's about better utilisation of the theatre spaces that we've got, utilising some of the spaces that … space. I was in Nevill Hall recently, and there was one theatre there that was used as a waiting room for patients. Now, that can't be right. So, you could add something on to that hospital …
12 March 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
… spend a lot of time discussing this, but, interestingly, in your paper, you obviously recognise that staff resource has been diverted to the 'Case for Change', but you also say that you are waiting on filling a vacancy …
10 January 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… position to treat people in a timely way. That is our ambition, and I'm sure it's the ambition of Members across the Chamber. As I've said, two-year waits in the Swansea Bay health board …