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8 February 2023, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language

… language assessments in a timely manner for children and young people who are neurodiverse. I have a few cases in my constituency of children who need Welsh-language assessments and are having to wait years for those assessments …

25 January 2023, Plenary

Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution

… impact assessment this time, because the last impact assessment basically said the likely consequence would be there would probably be an increase in forms of industrial action short of a strike. So, we wait and see what might …

25 January 2023, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - part 2

… wait to see what comes back. But I want to be very clear that NRW understands the cost of delivering the service, they understand what the income looks like over time, they understand what the review period …

11 December 2023, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3

… such a short time frame. And the final merits point is just to note that the Senedd twice voted to withhold its consent to the Bill that became the enabling Act. And we're waiting for Welsh Government …

9 June 2026, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

… going on there. We see people treated in corridors, cupboards, in chairs for several days at a time. Thirty-two per cent of these patients are being treated in non-designated clinical spaces. I put an FOI … found that, across Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, ysbyty Maelor and Ysbyty Gwynedd, nearly 1,000 people had died whilst waiting in a corridor or waiting on a chair. Recently, one of my constituents died after several hours of waiting …

4 May 2022, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Inquiry into participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with sporting unions (2)

… was the first time we met, which was great. I learnt so much, and my son plays basketball, so that's how I got involved as well. So, I am concerned about the waiting lists. I know that …

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

… the Development Bank of Wales and that £44 million, like all arm's-length bodies, I need to wait until they have had audited accounts and then I can look at their outturn position and how that affects … losses on the financial instruments within their control, which again is a market value at a point in time. So, the £44 million in some ways is a good-news story as well, because the expected credit loss …

17 January 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Flooding

… worse, so more properties keep getting into the flooding area. But the ones that were at risk last time and had the flood defences put in were protected, so that's something to be grateful for, although … all with the suggestion about looking at flood action groups, only to say that we are just waiting on the review outcomes so that we can go through them, and I'm sure that that will be one …

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies

… tier 4 child and adolescent mental health services placement and a child or young person can be waiting in the hospital for weeks, sometimes months, to try and find that right placement. What we need is more investment … don't see their friends and they don't see their family, particularly with COVID, with limited visiting times, and they miss out on education. And in COVID, we all know that the children are the ones who …

6 March 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution

… timely fashion, it means that the Crown Prosecution Service is reluctant to prosecute, knowing the pressures that the courts are under, and it means that those who are being prosecuted have to wait too long to receive their …

20 March 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Ophthalmology Services on Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 4

… was without an ECLO, but they've just had one start recently, and they've got a part-time one over in the Maelor. That is a really fundamental role so that people are picked up at that … well. With the lady who was saying that she was really thrilled with her support—she'd waited six months, and actually, that's down to her lack of understanding about what is best practice, what's even …

24 January 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local government funding

… half waiting for Mike Hedges to jump in at this point, but it’s completely appropriate for councils to hold on to a level of reserves for a rainy day—for those difficult times. Now, some would say …

15 February 2023, Health and Social Care Committee

Endoscopy services: evidence session with the Welsh Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy and Health Education and Improvement Wales

… happen all the time. So, I think having a dynamic dashboard that's accessible, alongside other things that we do have at the moment that we can get, in terms of activity data and waiting list data, would …

7 May 2024, Plenary

Statement by the First Minister: Senedd at 25

… added figures that Rhodri Morgan, when he was First Minister, set on meeting the UK average in a time frame—there are now no targets for that to happen, and regrettably over the 25 years we have not … managed to close that gap. And when it comes to health, regrettably, we have some of the longest waiting lists of any part of the United Kingdom, with so many people on a waiting list—600,000 people …

15 June 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy

… current period of time that we're in—then, again, there is no easy choice. But, at the moment, I don't have a sum of unallocated money that I am happily sitting on, waiting to allocate …

26 October 2023, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Nuclear energy and the Welsh economy: Nuclear industry and Unions

Yes. Look, knowing what your programme's going to be and the time frame you're going to do it in is really important. There are lots of things that feed into that: so, clarity on what the … Trying to do it in a way that's piecemeal, like, 'We'll build one, then we'll wait a bit for a few years and then decide whether we build another one, wait a bit for …

21 September 2021, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Rural Affairs, North Wales, and Trefnydd: Future Farming Policy and the Sustainable Farming Scheme

… like to begin by thanking the Minister for advance sight of today’s statement, and it’s quite timely as well, Llywydd, as I asked the Minister for clarity over the future of Glastir funding last Wednesday, and … their heads as to why, after being told to expect an update in July, they’ve had to wait nervously for the last couple of months for today’s update. But, again, I join the farming unions …

9 February 2022, Plenary

Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: Mabon ap Gwynfor (Dwyfor Meirionnydd)—Rent control

… particularly hard time, with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation estimating that many spend 35 per cent of their income on rent alone. Young people can't afford to buy homes in their communities and waiting lists for social homes …

18 September 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales

… absolutely certain that the approach that we are taking will result in a more cost-effective and more timely way of dealing with the frustrations that have been expressed across Wales. There is something else that needs … recognise—. Going down. The number of collisions has reduced by 20 per cent. Now, we need to wait for the full trend to emerge. But I am hopeful, and I think everybody in this Chamber should be hopeful …

26 April 2023, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: HS2 redesignation

… convenient times. I have students who have to travel two hours one way on a train, or a series of trains, in order to get to college. There are patients who have to wait for hours for bus …