, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… constituents are somewhat not parallel here, because the fact of the matter is that my constituents have been waiting over 10 years for this community hospital to be built within Rhyl, which has long been seen as the … Ministers to fail to deliver this project, which your direct predecessor said was a regret that, in his time in office, this hospital wasn't delivered, or you could be the First Minister to finally get this project …
, Plenary
Debate: Priorities for 2022-23 Budget Preparations
… time in paving the way for us to build back better, fairer and greener. The pandemic has highlighted that Wales was in decline even before COVID-19 struck. We have one in five people stuck on a waiting … key priority has to be to develop a clear plan to enable the Welsh NHS to clear the waiting list backlog that has deteriorated during the pandemic, as well as seeing more funding to address the many specific …
, Plenary
Debate: The Draft Budget 2025-26
… terms of the draft budget's deficiencies. And bearing in mind the grave challenges facing our nation, including waiting lists that include 20 per cent of the entire population, a severe deterioration in educational standards, sectors like higher … education and the arts facing major financial crises, and an economy that continues to underperform, it’s high time that the interests of the nation came before party interests, and that we all with one voice demand much …
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Welsh Government Delivery
… identified that they need an operation. We then need to—. They eliminate 15 per cent of the waiting list, because they’re either no longer needing it or are no longer fit for an operation, so—. Otherwise … them coming into hospital and then going out again. So, why are those simple ‘Getting It Right First Time’ procedures not common practice? Because I’m told it’s really only Aneurin Bevan and the Prince of Wales …
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill
… just waiting for a moment to see if I see a Member objecting. You may show your hand. [Objection.] Yes, I see that there is an objection, and I will, therefore, defer voting until voting time …
, Plenary
Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2026-27
… that the average over the last four years has been £62 million and it's currently around four times higher than the average of the last four years. We want to better understand what pressures remain across Government … Turning to the management of NHS finances, this supplementary budget includes a £100 million allocation to tackle NHS waiting lists. The committee supports the Government's ambition to move beyond short-term interventions and deliver sustained improvement …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27 - evidence session
… appreciate we're going to have to write afterwards because there isn't time, even in the time we have allocated, to get through everything. But the neurodivergence improvement programme, I don't think we can move … about whether that programme, again, is delivering the improvements that you expected it to, in reducing not just waits, but then actual treatment and support options, again to improve children's outcomes, and whether, again, you think that …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… the north of the country, for example, that can be extremely distressing, along with those people who are waiting. Given that national policy allows clinically justified cases of male infertility to be expedited, will the Minister now review … health boards, to make sure that it is happening, to ensure that men with fertility issues can access timely specialist care where appropriate? Will you write to all the health boards to ensure that this expedited route …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 5
… time budget, or you go for non-determination, get it declined and go to appeal, which takes 10 months. So, as an SME developer, what options do you really have, other than to sit there and wait and …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
… Wales saying, 'Come on in.' If we had a surplus of housing—we don't—if our NHS waiting lists were short—they're not—then fine. But Wales is on its knees, our public services are stretched … Plaid's rule over the last 26 years. So, don't you think, Welsh Government, it's about time that you put Welsh families first? We need to look after our veterans, our vulnerable and our homeless, before …
, Plenary
Short Debate: Living with cancer in Wales: Improving access to prehabilitation and rehabilitation services
… then waiting, often in fear, as you've suggested, with a huge degree of uncertainty until the tests and the treatment come around is a really difficult experience for many people. So, rather than wasting this time and …
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Industry Wales: evidence session with the Chief Executive and Chair
… certainly became quite, I suppose, downbeat. I knew where this was going quite quickly. Then, from spring time, when I had a discussion with the official running the review, and the review that they talked through then was … finally submitted, we heard nothing then for six months, until the decision. So, we were just left to wait and see …
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Prohibition of Greyhound Racing (Wales) Bill - Stakeholder evidence session with dog trainers
… races. I think by and large they find a home. I hear these stories and I'm just waiting to see—. None of the people I meet are responsible for the disappearance of greyhounds. I can't really … something that's come up in what I do, and I talk to the people all the time. When I've been at a track, I've chatted to people and said, 'How's things …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Spiking
… awake at night because I've got a 19-year-old daughter. She tells me that every time she goes out to a bar or a club, or to another student's house party, she's aware, sadly … spiked by drinks or by being injected, things that could ultimately lead to sexual violence. I lie awake waiting for that text to say that she's home safe. A mother of a young woman or not, this …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?—evidence session 1
… wait years for an assessment of their needs when research shows clearly that appropriate support and intervention in the early years is so important?' So, it's the lack of recognition of needs; the length of time that …
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Rural Affairs
… been very, very clear with stakeholders that the cumulative impact of this in increasing risk increases each time we do it. But we're trying to respond. Now, where do we go from here? Well, we're coming … say—. The Pirbright Institute is the one who declares when we're into low-vector season. So, we wait for them—they determine. And bear in mind that, even when we go into the low-vector season, there …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The NHS
… drastically watered-down version, is now significantly more costly than what it would have been all that time ago. Denbighshire and the wider area deserve the original plans to be honoured. Anything less will not be sufficient … Glan Clwyd Hospital. When the First Minister was health Minister, she repeatedly promised to eliminate two-year waits—first by March 2023, and then again by March 2024. Both promises have been broken. Targets have been missed and …
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and coach net zero - briefing by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
… wait for that, given that we face the crunch that you mentioned? You didn't provide us with any solutions, so I'm pressing you: what do we do now? Because it takes quite a long time …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Income tax devolution
… waiting longer than any other UK nation, the failure to build north Denbighshire community hospital in Rhyl after 10 years of broken promises. I could go on all day, but sadly I don't have the time. But …
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Welsh Government Workforce Planning: Evidence session (part 2)
… wait for it to recover a lot more. But, working from home, where they can lie down on a settee and work, means that they don't necessarily have to be sick for that period of time. Have …