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10 July 2024, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding

… important to recognise that the financial landscape has significantly changed since 2021. The UK Government at the time had to respond to unforeseen challenges—the COVID-19 pandemic, the impacts of the war in Ukraine—and all that … Wales—proper funding coming to Wales, and Wales would have its funding restored. So, I can't wait to hear what the Cabinet Secretary's response is going to be to this, because I'd love to know …

24 June 2026, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Hospital services and hospital closures

… don't know if you're all aware of that organisation. It stands for Getting It Right First Time. It's similar to NICE, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. It tried to get health economics … little distance to get their eyes done within a few weeks or a few months, rather than wait 100,000 years to have them done locally and die of old age, and all the disability of not being …

14 June 2023, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government

… elsewhere or, as is often the case, the letters will get ignored. In one instance, I'm still waiting for a reply to a letter I sent on behalf of a constituent several months ago, despite chasing the … one of them to urgently review these processes, to ensure that constituents are responded to within a reasonable time frame and, if it is the case, that no party politics are at play …

27 January 2026, Plenary

Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27

… them the money needed to meet rising costs and new duties. The result will be fewer buses, longer waits for care, reduced school transport and neglected roads. Small businesses are being squeezed from every direction, yet this Welsh … delivers nothing for them. Plaid Cymru are also to blame. They're a huge part of the problem. Time after time, Plaid talks up opposition, protests on the steps, then walks straight back in here and props …

15 May 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: GP practices and funding

… There are the mental health issues around living in isolated areas. There are the unique challenges in accessing timely medical care. In Powys, we have no general hospital, so everybody has to access a general hospital over the … seek prompt treatment from their local GPs because they can't leave the farm—literally. Instead, they must wait for overstretched GPs making lengthy home visits, allowing treatable conditions to deteriorate along the way. And in rural areas …

9 November 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8

… small supermarkets, corner shops. And they're not going to want to close down for two weeks and wait for a trap or a biocidal product to work, and so I fear that the business owners will take … public health risk; there is an unintended consequence that more people will get more ill, more disease and time off work. So, there are lots of unintended consequences there. But, as I said, the bigger worry is that …

27 January 2026, Plenary

Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery

Thank you. I appreciate that point. Women born in the 1950s, though, are still waiting in limbo. Women born in the 1950s were denied their pensions, and many women have died without having the money that they are … too for an apology that acknowledges maladministration and discrimination. I realise that this is a Westminster issue, but time is running out in this Senedd. You, Counsel General, have been a strong voice on this matter and for …

29 April 2025, Plenary

& 10. The General Principles of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill

The need for action on coal tips goes back decades, to a time before the Senedd even existed. The coal tips are the legacy of an industry that shaped and scarred our communities. What happened … issues that I would raise now. Many people, I'm sure, will ask why they will have to wait until 2027 for the authority to be fully operational. I welcome some of the changes that have been outlined …

14 June 2023, Plenary

Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Warm This Winter campaign

… Lywydd. There's throwing down the gauntlet there, so I will do my best to keep within my time. Every winter, people die in Wales due to cold homes. Rural communities, such as my own region of Mid … this point. It is critical that we plan for winter from now on. We cannot leave people waiting and wanting, and wanting to know what's happening around having warm homes. Rising costs this winter may mean that …

25 October 2023, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare? - Evidence session 8

… children, as and when they arrive. So, again, there are the anticipatory issues here; it's not about waiting until they arrive at the school. But I suppose what we need to be really, really careful about … through the quality of teaching and learning, and that all teachers, without exception, are good at all times for all children. So, it is about looking at how do we develop our workforce. And again, to be fair …

20 October 2026, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

Well, the Member's lived experience tells her why this is not acceptable, that people are waiting too long, and, as a Government, we want to close that gap. The Welsh Government funds the National Adoption Service. The … families can access and re-engage with adoption supporters as needs emerge, or as those needs change over time. But the Member is right. Through our work with the National Adoption Service and the funding that is going …

24 June 2025, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… case. He highlighted multiple similar reports in recent years, all painting the same grim picture: acutely unwell patients waiting hours for help, with ambulances unable to respond because crews were stuck outside hospitals unable to hand over patients … NHS Wales wrote to you, when you were the health Minister, regarding ambulance delays. She said, at that time, three years ago, that a health and social care system leadership response was required to current operational pressures …

7 January 2025, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS winter pressures

… him for the measured way in which he put his questions at what is a very difficult time for the NHS and obviously for the public as well. He asked a series of important questions. I'll try … implementing the various interventions, and separately we have a monthly report of the numbers of people who are waiting for discharge and are fit and ready to go home otherwise. So, we know that we went into December …

2 November 2021, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on COVID-19

… the teams implementing the booster vaccination programme. I am concerned that there are people who have had to wait longer than six months since their last vaccination and have not only not had the booster but haven … they are in the process so that they can have confidence that they will be protected when the time comes. And the same is true of children between the ages of 12 and 15. We are behind …

13 October 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Dentistry - evidence session with British Dental Association Wales and British Orthodontic Society

… before the pandemic, the BDA did some research at that time, and I believe it was something like 80 per cent of practices were not able to take on patients, pre pandemic. There was a recent bit … those practices are taking patients. In my practice, we've got around about 1,000 patients on a waiting list. So we are putting names on a waiting list, but realistically we're telling those patients that …

9 July 2025, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: The UK Government

… year they have made huge strides. They are already conducting a review of the system. You need to wait to see what that review will produce. No-one can fix the damage caused by the Governments of Cameron … man is really hard up; he has held on to his job as an MP at the same time. I'm sure the people he represents are really delighted. There will be ups and downs on the way …

2 February 2023, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Services for care-experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 3

… been run in Northern Ireland and it is a preventative programme that entirely refocuses all of the time and effort onto the point at which a child is on the cusp of becoming looked after. It requires … programmes. None of it is specifically related to the radical reform work, I would say. We're still waiting to hear more about what else that would look like, but we are doing a significant piece of work …

15 January 2025, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: New UK Government's first six months

… budget that's pushed up the costs of borrowing beyond the 2022 levels, and at this time there's no pandemic and there's no Liz Truss to blame either. And how we all laughed at Sir Keir … public services here too, because under Welsh Labour our NHS is broken. More than 24,000 people are waiting two years for treatment while the Welsh Labour Government remains utterly incapable of delivering improvements, in spite of promise …

5 December 2022, Petitions Committee

Updates to previous petitions

Thank you, Chair. I note that one of the last times we discussed this was in October, and we agreed to write to both Powys County Council for a response and also back to the Minister. I know … had a response from the Minister yet. And I was wondering whether or not we could either wait until we get that response or chase it. And then, once we get that response, we can look at both …

26 April 2022, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… wasted on an M4 relief road, the much-needed relief road that was scrapped, and whilst you were waiting, deciding whether you wanted it or not, the millions that you wasted that could have gone back to the … tourism tax. Is this really all your Government has to offer the people of Wales at a time when everyone is struggling? To me, it seems your priorities are all wrong …