, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Inter-governmental relations and workings
… times when if they're putting something through that we agree with, why wouldn't we hitch a ride on the bus? So, look at something like the vapes legislation and things coming in. Yes, we could wait …
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cancer services in Wales: evidence session with Wales Cancer Alliance
… wait 62 days. This isn't for you; this is just me thinking out loud: wouldn't it be more useful—but you might want to comment—if we actually had a line of the length of time …
, Petitions Committee
P-06-1346 Provide free and accessible public transport for under 18s in Wales to lower carbon emissions and boost growth
… time as I’ve found in my experience sometimes they can turn up, up to 20 minutes late and also sometimes they don’t even turn up at all which then I have to wait for the next …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting lists
… lot to say about Welsh Labour that they reward the person who's given us the longest NHS waiting lists on record by making that person the First Minister of Wales. But it's not just about the … sure they were reassuring to us all in this place, but those are words we've heard repeated time and time again by a bevy of Ministers and Cabinet Secretaries who, seemingly, have only made the situation worse …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The energy sector and the climate and nature emergencies
… recent years, but to date, enough action has not been taken to reinforce those declarations. I fear that waiting is not a luxury we can any longer afford. Wales and the world face climate and nature disaster, and … come out of COP could be a cop-out, a collective burying of heads in the sands of time at the very moment that those sands run out of the hourglass, and at the hour of destiny world …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport
… wait for nine years, I think, now. I hear you say, and I'm very pleased to hear you say, that it will be open before the summer, but we have been told this many times before …
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning: Working with local government to deliver more affordable homes
… and waiting lists up. Realistically, therefore, how are you going to turbocharge new supply now in order to meet your target, when just two years remain for you to do this? In 2022, average full-time employees …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: A&E department performance data
… has tried to deflect from Labour's poor record on managing the NHS by comparing our A&E times between England and Wales. However, concerns regarding the validity of the Welsh Government's data and their records calls … have 27,000 people in Wales—and let's put that into context, out of 3 million population—waiting for two years for treatment, a much higher rate than in England, where there are only …
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Basic Income and the transition to a zero-carbon economy
… use their time and resources to resolve the issues that they are tasked with, such as trying to resolve the continually falling education standards and dealing with the 700,000 people who are on NHS waiting lists. Acting …
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 6: Office of Environmental Governance Wales’ strategy (Amendments 113, 114, 151, 45, 115, 116, 153, 148)
… and to support transparency. Amendment 153 would give the OEGW the power to review its strategy at any time. As things stand, the Bill only requires a review every four years. I think that this would … flexibility. It's important, because it would allow the body, the OEGW, to respond to changing circumstances, without waiting for the four-year cycle, and that flexibility would help the OEGW futureproof its work and focus its resources …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: The Warm Homes Programme
… and waiting far too long for this statement on the Government's next Warm Homes programme. So, I'm grateful to have this brief opportunity—it's a shame that we don't have more time to discuss …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with third sector organisations
… care waiting upwards of three months at this point for support, and when perhaps a person is discharged from hospital, there might be a person who is becoming a carer for the very first time, then. That places …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with local authorities
… think it's fair to say that waiting for assessments isn't just waiting for social care assessments; it actually includes different specialised medical assessments as well. So, that picture is quite a complicated picture. It may require … had a programme called discharge to recover and assess that is really about ensuring that individuals are discharged timely and then assessed in the community, either in their own home or in a residential care setting. But, again …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Blue carbon habitats
… shortness of this debate, and I look forward to the Government bringing forward a debate in their own time on this topic. But, in opening the debate, Janet Finch-Saunders spoke eloquently, set the scene for the need … out right on Angle peninsula, you're able to see the seagrass there, as it's laying limp waiting for the sea to roll back in and bring it back up to life. it's an incredible things …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… any one time, and there's a lack of compliance with the code. Can I urge the First Minister to bring this piece of legislation forward as a matter of urgency? Because the longer we wait, the more …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Legislative Consent: Health Bill - evidence session 4
Yes, we'll have to wait to see how this Bill, as it moves through the system, develops and what the actual final outcome will be on how many bodies will be in place, and what that means … ensure that we've got structures in place so that accountability and responses are made in due time …
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and Care Priorities
… being, what she said, 'equally culpable', in the demise of the health service. Now, this is our first time leading Government, may I just remind you, but your party also proposed to support the budget of the previous … days plan has spoken about how we're going to start with looking at the validation of the waiting lists, the elective care hubs that we're going to develop, the investment in primary care and improved diagnostics …
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… ensure timely Welsh-medium assessments for children who require an autism assessment? I have a few cases in my constituency of children who require Welsh-medium autism assessments but who are having to wait years. For example, Rhodri …
, Plenary
Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report, 'Prevention of ill health—obesity'
… very excellent professor at the University of Liverpool, whose name I can provide you at another time. We cannot afford to go on like this. The timidity of politicians to grasp the nettle in case they seem … people are not going to stop doing this unless we stop them poisoning us. We cannot afford to wait for the UK Government to wake up and impose a tax on ultra-processed food, which, along with smoking …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… England will now know the settlement that it has received from the UK Government. We will have to wait until the spring budget to see whether that £25 million really does arrive in Wales, or whether … worse off than we currently believe we will be. And that would not be the first time at all that that has happened. So, I know that my colleague the finance Minister is sympathetic to the case that …