, Plenary
Topical Questions
… time again, vulnerable patients who should be seen in 10 minutes who don't get access to a consultant or a specialist for six hours, mental health patients who are suicidal being put in parts of a waiting …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 3
… greenfield you can only do so much in terms of viability. But when you then have to wait seven years before the plan gets adopted and then another two years before you get your planning permission, viability … treble overnight, but they did. Based on a war in another country, suddenly our materials are three times more expensive. So that is a problem with viability. From a private developer point of view, we do pay …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… are in a position where, actually, a war in Ukraine had an immediate effect on the bills—[Interruption.]—wait a minute—on the bills in our country, and there is something you need to do about that … supply. And if you can do security of supply and address the climate issue at the same time, then that is the way to go. And that's why we do have very ambitious targets, and that …
, Welsh Youth Parliament 3 - Plenary
Session 3
… hearts. This is real, it's happening right now in our world, in our country. We can't wait any longer. We can't afford to let anyone else feel the deep-cutting loneliness. We can't allow … knowing the damage it's causing, knowing how much people's lives have changed every single day. The time to speak is now. If we don't speak, who will? If we don't teach our children …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care-experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 3
… happy to go. I have worked in fostering for over 20 years, and in that time, I have seen a significant number of specialist schemes be set up. Each and every one has been unable to achieve what … cannot be used for the next child who needs them, or the child after that, because they're waiting to be held for their specialist placement. Sometimes, that specialist need—the next child who comes through with very …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services on Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 4
… need there for a service to be able to hold that person at that moment in time. Actually, that is really early on in a pathway. I’m now stage 4 proliferative retinopathy. This is background, which can … next’. That’s the first thing. Something else I want to tell you about is when I was waiting for my operations, and waiting for laser, I lost my job. I lost my job not because I couldn …
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy
… they want to invest, and then what they're hearing is, 'Well, you're going to have to wait for this framework or the following one', and in the meantime, they then go, 'Well, we'll go elsewhere … think it's really important that I put that on record, because that was something that came up time and time again. And it didn't matter whether it was worker voice, union voice, community voice, the various …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
… know it's a very busy time for the Welsh Government at the minute, because I know you're dealing with provisional settlements and everything at the minute, as well, with local authorities. Is there any indication … the provisional settlement yet, or is the Welsh Government waiting—I'll probably address this to the Cabinet Secretary—for the UK Government's autumn budget, now, at the end of the month, to then give a provisional …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
… say in an earlier answer that, obviously, that is something that we can consider. I would prefer to wait until I've had my ministerial meeting on Monday to see what other views are across the UK and … whether there's anything that we can do collectively together. I think you're right; these are challenging times for everybody, and I absolutely accept that there are a range of other pressures on our egg producers …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… that, to the shock and horror of those present, they were told that there was a seven-hour wait for an ambulance. Now, fortunately, the person in question recovered consciousness, but it could so easily have turned out … very differently. The same constituent remembered how, when they witnessed a similar incident six years ago at Christmas time, an ambulance was requested and attended within minutes. They've said that the more recent incident has led them …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: COVID restrictions
… and the anniversary of the Foreign Office advising against travel to the Wuhan province of China. Since that time, we have seen the biggest curtailment of freedoms and civil liberties ever witnessed in peacetime, all in an effort … what we now know as COVID-19. While this was justified at the beginning, as we were waiting for treatments and vaccines to be developed in order to protect the most vulnerable, now, as we enter our third …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Spiking
… also transport—and we obviously need to look at this now very clearly in terms of the night-time economy. We have been focusing very much on domestic abuse and violence in the home and of course that … not fit for purpose. It fails to deal with misogyny as a major demonstration of this, and we wait for the Law Commission’s outcome of their review, and we ask the UK Government to expedite legislation …
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
… then subsequent ones, and I know we've had these discussions before: what do you do with the timing if you know there's a lot of analysis to be done? Do you lay an early one knowing … not going to be the complete picture, but just to give a heads up, or do you wait and wait and do your detailed analysis? Did you give thought to laying an early LCM so it would give …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… that answer? We know that smoking has reduced, and is continuing to reduce, and many of us are waiting for it to reach zero. Unfortunately, obesity is moving in the opposite direction, and that is causing a large … number of people to suffer from things that can cause heart disease. Hardening of the arteries happens 10 times more often in people who are obese than in people who are not obese. So, will the Welsh Government …
, Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report, 'Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030'
… introduce a revised plan, aligned with the 2030 targets and the global biodiversity framework. But we are still waiting. In response to our report, the Government said that its goal is to launch the revised plan in October … three years after the global biodiversity framework was agreed. In explaining the delay, the Welsh Government said officials' time has been prioritised to meet the critical deadline for introducing the forthcoming environment Bill—a Bill that has been …
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… June 2021 state that: 'All perioperative services should have a system for active clinical surveillance of patients on waiting lists, particularly those who have been on lists for longer than 3 months for P3 or P4 surgery … very concerned that the Betsi board has extended the timescales to up to 16 weeks at a time when there is no clear all-Wales standard. So, in the interest of patient safety, I would be grateful …
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Language Commissioner’s Annual Report 2020-21 and Assurance Report 2020-21
… campaign in November of last year that celebrated 15 years since its inception, and the belief at that time was that there had been huge growth in the demand for the Iaith Gwaith products, but unfortunately the cyber … attack meant that nobody could contact us to request badges, and so on. So, we did have to wait until our new website was launched in August before we could respond. But I think it is worth telling …
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Apprenticeship pathways - Panel 1 - Strategic Overview
… looking at where we can put additional funding into those supported apprenticeships to try and reduce that waiting list. And I think we are seeing gradual improvement. The numbers of apprentices who declare a disability is gradually increasing … perhaps might like it to be, but we have seen a gradual increase of that over the time of the programme …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… much, Altaf. You understand this stuff—you worked very hard for the NHS over a long period of time, and you know better than anyone that, in Wales, we have an older, sicker and poorer population, and there … suggest that the extra funding isn’t making a difference, I think, is a travesty. The longest waits today, for example, are 86 per cent lower than they were at their peak. We are absolutely moving in the …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… week the example of one of my residents who is, sadly, terminally ill with cancer, who had to wait more than 24 hours in an A&E department. So, First Minister, because of the regularity of these occurrences … the severity of the issues that my residents are suffering, would you not think that now is the time for an independent review of the health board, so that the people that I represent can get the healthcare …