4 March 2025 , Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2025-26
… Whether it's on the health service, with the appalling situation whereby over 20,000 people are still waiting more than two years plus for their treatment, compared to just fewer than 150 over the border in England … situation in our schools, where our young people are not getting the quality of education all of the time that they deserve, Wales is being let down. These things have to change, and they're not going …
8 November 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
Thank you, Minister, for your time and officials' time today. We'll probably have a number of points to raise in writing with you following the meeting, but I wonder if you could agree to provide a written … progress that you have made in implementing the committee's April 2022 report and recommendations in regard to ' Waiting well …
4 March 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Industry Wales: evidence session with the Chief Executive and Chair
… the delivery of a new strategy for the future remit, and this would be September 2024 time , and that was sort of—. I was always delayed and there was always some reason why I shouldn't do that … work in. That delay, I think, was part of the process of the review. They wanted to wait for the review for that decision to be made, so there was no point, if you like, in going through …
14 July 2026 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion: Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill
… Legislation Committee has considered, and we have been operational for just three weeks. At least two more are waiting for us in September. If I may say so, we really have hit the ground running, and … work we are glad to do. I want to raise three matters with the Senedd today: the timing of this memorandum, the absence of a recommendation and the substance of what the committee found. First, timing . The memorandum …
29 March 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… September 2020, the second in August 2021. She said: 'During both of these extremely painful and difficult times , I, like many other prospective mothers in Wales, was not allowed to have my husband at the scans, and had … own with nobody there to provide comfort or support. Instead I was led to a small waiting room, told I could leave when I was ready. I then had to go out and tell my husband the news …
20 November 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Development of Tourism and Regulation of Visitor Accommodation (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 7
… three years. I think we would say that three to five years is a more realistic time frame. That gives a certainty that businesses can continue to operate. The health and safety profile of self-catering accommodation … month period. So, we would suggest that, first of all, the licensing approval model moves from 'apply and wait ' to 'apply and go'. And secondly, that you extend the validity of licences. Edinburgh, by the way, had …
3 February 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government: More Homes
… terms of the social housing waiting list, I think it's just really important to recognise that waiting lists are not a measure of housing needs; they're a measure of who would like to and who has … was set, it was set to a figure that exceeded the affordable housing need projections at that time —just to make that clear. Obviously, housing needs would have changed since then, but this level of delivery, I think …
15 May 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session with the Minister for Climate Change
… target and nearly see what happens', and take a judgment call as to when that is the right time to do it. In section 3(8), I think, it states that regulations setting an air quality target under … little bit about timescales and that sort of thing. Would you be disappointed if we had to wait until the seventh Senedd to have those targets in place …
28 February 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
… public services, which will then provide us with some additional funding to allocate. Of course, they still have time . We've got the UK Government's spring statement on 6 March. It's the day after we vote … Welsh Government can reflect that in a supplementary budget in June. I wouldn't expect decisions to be waiting until June. I think that the Welsh Government could take some early decisions on support for public services, should …
21 March 2023 , Plenary
Debate: The Estyn Annual Report 2021-22
… and to shore up teacher numbers, rather than having their efforts and focus distracted at such a critical time . Myself and colleagues in the Chamber, on various occasions, have called for a more concrete end goal and for … that children are identified as having ALN far sooner than they currently are, so that they can join waiting lists quicker, and sooner get the help that they require. It's not rocket science, but it's having …
24 June 2025 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales: Support for the Armed Forces Community
… has concerns about how we match up across borders in terms of mental health provision and orthopaedic waiting lists, and this is something that, as a Government, we can take on board and consider how to address. But … Now, I would agree with Peredur that there is considerable anxiety over geopolitical uncertainty at this moment in time , but he invites me to state whether Welsh Government and UK Government can match words with actions. Well, first …
7 May 2025 , Finance Committee
Post-legislative review of the Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2019: Evidence session 3
… know they're coming down now, but there has been a pretty big post-pandemic increase in waiting lists—you will have more people in Wales who might be turning to the private sector and coming back … journey. I think it's a good thing that those powers are there, should they be needed some time in the future …
19 June 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Chair of Transport for Wales - pre-appointment hearing
… ways. First and foremost, we need to address disruption through the staff on the ground at the time . One of the defining features of Transport for Wales is that we have plenty of people around and, therefore, there … was encourage, for example, tube drivers to make announcements when there was disruption—actually, even when we were waiting for a platform to clear, because when a train stops people start wondering whether they're going …
11 September 2022 , Plenary
Motion of condolence and tributes to Her Majesty The Queen
… about the Queen, the one word I would use to describe her, is her devotion. Every time I look at those pictures in my office, I think of the Queen's devotion, her devotion to her nation … did what every good person who's a hanger-on tries to do; I hung around and waited for people to have their chats with the Queen and move on. And eventually, of course, the crowd began …
11 December 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 13: Biodiversity targets: targets under new section 6B of the Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendments 133, 134, 20, 135, 52, 65A, 65, 136, 137, 53, 1, 138, 139, 140, 66, 54, 21, 67, 2)
… take alternative methods of transport other than cars. And nowhere do we see this more than this time of year, where everybody is queuing up to get into one particular car park in the city centre of Cardiff … why is it going to take a Bill for anybody to do anything on it. So, I'll wait to hear what you have to say, but we can't go on like this, just watching nature decline …
28 February 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… she will have to say when the statement comes forward. It's to be rescheduled for two weeks' time , and I know that the Member will be listening carefully to what the Minister has to say. In the … new dental therapist has been appointed and that post is already making inroads into children who have been waiting for appointments. And a new paediatric specialist dentist has been appointed so that more children are able to receive …
15 January 2025 , Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 5
… staff, and whatever, to actually see if there's a degree of reablement that means that, by the time the care package is set, it's actually a reduced package and they don't need such a level … out and deal with our telecare services to not have people lying on the floor for hours waiting for an ambulance and that sort of thing. So, there are things we can do on that, and those are …
15 May 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
… will they please contact the 999 centre and cancel an ambulance so that we don't have to wait . And to give you, again, just one example, I was out with an ambulance not so long ago where … that, and that ambulance therefore had been on a wasted journey, wasting at least two hours of its time trying to find a location, trying to get access to a house that was all in darkness, because the …
17 July 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with environmental organisations
… commitment. It's welcome. But I think it has to be seen in the context where we've waited seven years for this Bill to arrive, despite numerous political commitments, and it'll be eight years before … different Government and a different Senedd. And then the third part of the context, if you've had time to read it yet, is the lessons learned report from the interim assessor, which is on their LinkedIn page …
7 July 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
North Wales
… great deal of experience that we can draw on there, too, to help us to do things this time in a way that will help the board to succeed. There are a number of things in the package … board, as I said, in the area of finance, in assisting them to deal with the problems of waiting lists, and so on and so forth, and also to be clear with the board in terms of what …