, Plenary
Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report—Dentistry
… pleased the report has recognised and recommended for the Welsh Government to consider a single, centralised waiting list across Wales, and that the Minister has accepted that recommendation. My constituent said that, despite seeing 400 new patients, only … not enough appointments to see existing patients, new ones, and completing, of course, the treatment for first-time patients requiring multiple appointments. He stated that around 90 per cent of patients would require multiple appointments, and the new …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
… extra money from the Welsh Government, I feel confident, next year. I'm afraid you will have to wait to have a draft budget to see the extent of that, and then those organisations, like any other organisation … October will mean that those sectors will see some benefit from that, even if at the same time they have extra costs that they now need to meet …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
… under the remit of this Welsh Labour Government. As of January 2020—2020—12,428 treatment pathways were waiting over 36 weeks for treatment in north Wales. That already horrific figure has now reached 58,988 in February … excellent minor injuries unit, which saw 98.4 per cent of patients spend less than the four-hour target time in the emergency department, its responsibilities now have decreased to around nine injury categories. And this—. We were told …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
… roll this out, and I hope there's a coherent strategy to do that. Minister, time and time again we have seen the effects that years of Labour underfunding has had on our NHS. As we all know … fund this vital public service has left almost a quarter of our Welsh people on an NHS waiting list and created huge concern and worry. We all know there is a long list of struggling specialisms, such …
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Restoring nature in Wales
… needs to happen for us to ensure, in terms of those targets, that we don’t have to wait so long? Because we have to ask ourselves what kind of Wales we will leave to the future generations … make difficult decisions but necessary decisions. So, to close, because I see that I'm out of time, to ensure those targets more quickly, to ensure that Natural Resources Wales’s work is communicated better and to support …
, Plenary
Topical Questions
… frustration is bound to be created in that situation. It is not acceptable for people to have to wait two to three hours to get out of car parks. I accept the point that you've made, that … come from London and other parts of the country and arrive in our capital city after allowing extra time to travel here, but only arriving at 9.30 p.m. or 9.45 p.m. after leaving London at midday, that clearly …
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Lobbying: Evidence Session 2
… was lobbied; the subject matter and the intended results; the type and the extent of activity—how many times an individual or different organisations were lobbied; if there are any current or former designated public officials lobbying for … the register. We had 11,600 returns in 2021 and an equivalent number in 2020. I'm waiting to see what 2022 will bring; I suspect it may be down a bit, because we had a definite upswing …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Pensions
… gone on for a quarter of a century. It's not fair that, due to the passage of time, the campaigning now falls on the shoulders of fewer and fewer people because of death and illness. But John … had plenty of smiles, we had some condescending comments, and then nothing. Nothing at all. They are still waiting for the injustice to be righted. My office has started a petition, calling on the UK Government to take …
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Care
… doing this. We are even proposing to take a paper to Cabinet in a couple of weeks' time so that we can project all of this across to our Cabinet colleagues as well, so that they fully understand … reasons that we've talked about. But, mainly, this is about trying to help tackle some of the waiting lists in some of these areas …
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Cost of Living
… measures in relation to prepayment meters—by no means enough, but at least a recognition for the first time that the interests of prepayment meter customers are different and need to be protected. But if you look … the two-child limit, the single greatest driver of child poverty; nothing to deal with the five-week wait for universal credit, and the single greatest call on our discretionary assistance fund comes from people who are left …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: The Cymraeg 2050 Annual Report 2021-22
… Minister for the Welsh language. In terms of our expectations on the census, we will have to wait and see what those results are. It's a little early for us to predict how those will … the Member will know, which is half the period since the last census. For half of that time, we've been living under COVID, so that's the context in terms of policy impact and the figures that …
, Finance Committee
Post-legislative review of the Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2019: Evidence session 3
… office needed to modernise. It was far too reactive. We were simply sitting there, in a sense, waiting for people to come and complain to us. There was a risk that the office was being used by those … was concerned about some of the phraseology in the Act. I think I described it at the time as a bit feudal: 'The ombudsman may consider a complaint that isn't made in writing, should he or she …
, Plenary
Debate: The Welsh Language Commissioner’s Annual Report 2020-21 and the Commissioner’s second 5-year report
… dementia, has lost the ability to speak in English. She recently suffered a fall and was forced to wait nearly five hours for help, a bad situation in and of itself, but one made so much worse because … all take for granted. How terrifying must it be to be unable to make yourself understood at the time of your greatest need? Sadly, it's not just my constituent who was faced with this experience. Regrettably, the …
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 2
… protracted and I would say blocking—I don't think that's an overstatement. I’ve had to wait over a month before for responses from the local council, and, when I have had it, I’ve had … aware that there are weekly meetings between the company, between the operator, and the council, so clearly that time is there—it’s just where they spend the time. And I would agree that there has been very …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with the National Endoscopy Programme and Wales Cancer Network
… know what we need to do. I don't think we have stretched organisations more at a time of acute pressure at the moment, but if that plan is implemented, and the question is 'How?' or holding … the wider diagnostic pathway right, because a number of those patients will have cancers, and if they're waiting for two years before they have their tests, that's a disaster for cancer patient outcomes. And just …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare? - evidence session 5
… Karen. I agree, and, actually, in my notes, I say this is incredibly difficult to answer in the time we have, so I shall touch on some points but this list really isn't exhaustive. I think one … parents telling us that their school is avoiding deciding ALN or not, and instead adopting a 'Let's wait and see' approach, 'Let's see how things go for a term', or, 'We're not going …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… pause on any further bed reductions across Wales until safe alternatives are in place. At the same time, Public Health Wales, in their report, warned that winter pressures from respiratory viruses, cold homes and delayed discharges will push … escalation beds, rapid discharging lounges and step-down facilities across Wales, to ensure that no patients are left waiting in corridors? Can you also confirm, Cabinet Secretary, how many additional staffed beds will be operational across Wales this …
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
… need the right number of trains, and you need infrastructure that isn't going to break all the time. And then it basically works, because it's a system. So, why has CVL worked? It's because the … and then we skip a stop, so the worst thing that's going to happen is someone is waiting six minutes rather than three minutes, that one stop that is skipped would have the same percentage impact …
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bovine TB panel—Farming Unions
… the bloods, as I referred to earlier. They've been there for two and a half weeks waiting for removal. They're going to be valued tomorrow afternoon. Every day, I am losing nearly £600-worth of milk … That doesn't include all of the forage that I've got to give them, the labour, the time, the distress of seeing those animals day in, day out. None of these costs don't even go near …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The role of local authorities in supporting hospital discharges: Evidence session 6
… ageing population, means that this is only going to get more difficult to fix the longer we wait to take action. And I personally feel—and everything that we hear from unpaid carers tell us—that this isn … but the facts are stark that more people are going to need care for a greater period of time and in more complex ways as we get into the future. I don't see an alternative where that …