18 October 2023 , Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, and Estimate 2024-25: Evidence session
… our service quality work has changed. We've got a new service quality officer, who is part time , but who is a specialist, rather than somebody who's just doing it on top of other duties … rolled out the new approach to service quality. I think one of the key changes is rather than wait until we get to the end, and looking at closed cases, the service quality work actually looks at live …
17 September 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Since 2022, the number of patient pathways waiting over two years has reduced by 80 per cent in Hywel Dda health board. However, there is more to be done. Through the targeted intervention escalation, my officials are working … closely with the health board to improve access to safe and timely health and care …
12 September 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Independent review and Natural Resources Wales reports into flooding 2020-21
… Wales, so that there's a lead the report asks for? Will you set out in law statutory time limits and structures for section 19 reports? And will you bring forward a flooding (Wales) Bill, so that this … start the process of strengthening legislation for Wales? It is not good enough to stand by and just wait for winter to come and see all the floods that come with that. We're even seeing floods now …
10 November 2021 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Spiking
… the back of my mind but it's in the forefront of my mind from time to time , and I personally find this spiking situation extremely worrying and it's one that's close to my heart. One … cultural issues that need to be addressed today, alongside practical actions that could be quickly implemented whilst we wait —sooner rather than later—for those societal and cultural issues to be addressed as well. I think Gareth Davies …
22 October 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Follow-up inquiry into Empty Properties: Evidence session 4
Sorry, I was waiting for the microphone to come on. We know there are lots of empty properties. We know it varies a lot. We know some are empty because they're going through a renovation, and … bedroomed detached house that has been bricked up. These properties have been left, some of them, for some time . I don't want to go into the reasons for it. But do you think that if we could …
11 May 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
… few weeks, and there are, of course, positive elements. One, that we have a plan at last, having waited far too long for it, and there are plans in place in certain areas that will assist, there … actions, although there are some gaps in those targets too, and we'll return to that in due time . For far too long, the NHS in Wales has been locked into some sort of vicious circle where …
12 March 2025 , Plenary
Debate on the Standards of Conduct Committee Report, 'Individual Member Accountability: Recall'
… legislation needs to be brought forward as soon as possible, to make sure that it's embedded in time for the 2026 election. That's going to be a challenge, but I echo again what Sam was saying … Counsel General and Minister for Delivery taking that forward, so hopefully it will get delivered. So, we'll wait to see on that one, but we'll do our part as a committee, I'm sure, to facilitate …
6 June 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence—migrant women: evidence session 2
… for support? So, it's less in the acute space, because I think people get there over time if they don't have access to the sorts of services they might need to prevent that from happening. And … what we were hearing from practitioners and those working with, particularly, refugees and asylum seekers, was that those waiting lists are still very, very long. What do we do here and now to help people cope with the …
20 June 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 6
… guess, the future pressures coming on the sector. It's all well and good knowing what the emergency waiting list is for accommodation today, but the model they use in England could help you understand the types … problem you would have is that transition, where you put somebody in and within a couple of months' time , the property is not suitable for them at all, so it moves on. The challenge is—. You've described …
28 April 2025 , Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
… licensing of animal welfare establishments, activities and exhibits, and I’m a little bit concerned about how much time we’ve got left to deliver it. So, I’d welcome that. I think there might be a statement … should fall under that, shouldn't it, hopefully. Okay. Right. So, we'll keep it open and wait . Thank you. Item 3.7 is P-06-1405, 'We want and need a Mental Health unit for men in North …
8 May 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
… really challenging time for public funding. Our budget is worth £700 million less than at the time of the last funding settlement. We've had to make really difficult decisions as a Government. But, despite the pressures … school leaders about the situation. We're also doing work around the Luke Sibieta funding review. We're waiting for some of that work to be completed around the funding formula that local authorities use. As you know …
7 May 2025 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government performance during the Sixth Senedd
Plaid Cymru's motion today marks a year until the 2026 election. Since the last election, NHS waiting lists have exponentially increased, Wales continues to underperform economically compared to the rest of the UK, child poverty levels are … Labour Government, I think it must have slipped Plaid's mind that they have spent most of that time propping them up. We're not even a year on from them ending their co-operation agreement with the …
18 November 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with primary care organisations
… between service to service as well. And I wonder what the implications are, you think, of having to wait to access mental health services, and how that demand capacity can be better managed, and also whether there … capacity within local primary care mental health support services. Perhaps it's a big question for not much time we've got left in the meeting, but I wonder if anyone can address those points. Peter Saul …
10 December 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
… that candidates will spend time in their constituencies, but the issue I have, then, is when they spend time here in the Senedd, conducting political campaigning when we ourselves are not allowed to conduct political campaigning within these … experience, but when I've written to local authorities as a Member of the Senedd, I've often waited months—and I mean months—to sometimes only receive single-sentence responses. This is not only frustrating for …
21 September 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Future approach to optometry services
… think there are real issues in relation to cataracts—you'll be aware that there are very long waiting lists for cataracts. And one of the things that we are looking at is the development of regional cataract … that we can get high volumes of people through these cataract centres in a short space of time . We've asked health boards to work together and to come up with proposals in this space, so hopefully …
9 December 2022 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Equality and human rights
… only way we would have that capacity is by making choices. There's no spare capacity sitting around waiting to do this. There is a capacity there already and, as I said, it has demonstrated its capability, but … floodgates were to open and we suddenly had to deal with this huge volume in a very constrained time frame, there is no spare capacity for that, it would be diverted capacity—capacity diverted away from all the …
23 June 2021 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Departure from the European Union
… following our departure from the EU. There has been no assault on devolution. I have asked time and time again for Members of the parties opposite to give me a list of the powers that have been stripped … from the Senedd as a result of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020, and I am still waiting for that list. Because the reality is, there'll be nothing on it. There is nothing on it; there …
14 September 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - Ministerial scrutiny session
… the money in. Our ambition is to—well, it depends, obviously, on the evaluation. We've got to wait to see what the evaluation is, but that non-combative way of working is a way that we would … see spread across Wales. But, we, you know—as you said, these are difficult and financially difficult, challenging times , and we really have to scrutinise and prioritise where we can best put our money, given the financial situation …
27 November 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2026-27: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, the Minister for Children and Social Care and the Minister for Mental Health and Well-being.
… and perhaps this is a little more challenging, if I may—that I don't remember the last time I was challenged in the Chamber, or in any context for that matter, in terms of the medical and … for completely legitimate reasons—I don't complain about this at all—in terms of performance: who's waiting for what, how long have they been waiting for, how many people are waiting . That's what the public …
22 June 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on Coronavirus
… aware that we are just entering a third wave, and that is why now is not the time to put our foot down on the pedal, especially when we are still learning about the delta variant. There are … some very interesting papers that have been published, but they haven't been peer reviewed, so we're waiting for that analysis to be carried out so that we can have real confidence in what we're seeing …