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30 November 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Social care horizon-scanning: evidence session with Care Inspectorate Wales

… Abuse. So, there's a lot going on. But what we know is, of course, being on a waiting list for assessment or for provision of a care place puts people at risk. We know many local authorities … what we do is focus on a person's experience, so we spend a great deal of time talking to people or their families, and if they have dementia, we use an observational tool that our inspectors are …

16 May 2023, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

Research by Alzheimer’s Society Cymru suggests that one in five people in Wales waits for more than six months before talking to a professional health worker about their concerns about possible dementia symptoms that they … statement from the health Minister about the work that the Welsh Government is doing to promote accurate and timely dementia diagnosis. And secondly, Trefnydd, over the weekend, more than 100 people marched from Pentyrch to Rhydlafar to show …

9 July 2025, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

… view, is that patients who go forward to surgery in that context take longer to recover, spend more time in hospital, and the outcomes are less good. So, it's a really important priority for us to get … will also know that we now have in place a single point of contact arrangement for patients waiting for surgery. So, they have somebody they can speak to about how they can get ready, how they can …

8 December 2021, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Mental health services

… hierarchy refusing to release this report, despite, even, the requests of the information commissioner. Grieving relatives had to wait unnecessarily due to a bureaucracy that didn't put people first—it put its own interests and its own … there. The alarm was raised in Hergest, and had it been heeded across the health board with the timely publication of the Holden report, then we might not have had Tawel Fan. Now, I'm heartened by the …

23 November 2021, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… matter for the board. Well, your health Minister, who was Deputy Minister for mental health at the time, confirmed to me a year ago that she had read the Holden report. Now, that was 12 months ago, when … you did that for five of the eight long years that the people of north Wales had to wait for it to see the light of day …

4 March 2026, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Industry Wales: evidence session with the Chief Executive and Chair

… months and months—during which time, your employees, the forums, are all asking you the same questions every time they see you: 'What's going to happen to us? Are we going to lose our jobs? Are … year of Industry Wales in a very different way. Whereas there's been a lot of hanging around, waiting for things to happen. From a taxpayer's point of view, that's not a good use of money …

22 May 2025, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Stage 1 scrutiny of the Bus Services (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with passenger interests organisations

… where people with protected characteristics can be invaluable in providing training for drivers. Because a lot of the time, you go about your day and you don't realise that something that is not an obstacle to you … the bus with a wheelchair. Now, in conjunction with Motability, we've produced a report, 'Why Are We Waiting', which looked at the lived experience of people with disabilities, and it highlighted a couple of things: the independence …

24 May 2023, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS Dentistry

… the first one is: 'Because I was unable to access an NHS dentist, and for the first time in 38 years I now qualify for free treatment due to my income and age, my tooth had disintegrated and … finding out the situation regarding children's brace appointments. My daughter is 14 years old and she has waited 18 months for a brace to be fitted.' And, indeed, Llyr referred to this earlier. 'We have had …

15 November 2022, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… housing list for a house until she has first moved into temporary accommodation. Mam is now on a waiting list for temporary accommodation, and a housing worker in a local authority told me that people stay in temporary … family with children. When children cannot access their basic human rights to a safe home, is it not time to accelerate and expand the agreed Unnos programme, to undertake house adaptation and house building on an unprecedented scale …

17 May 2023, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: Respiratory disease

… pump. I have a steroid pump in the morning, the brown one, and that blue Ventolin pump at times of emergency, and members of my family also live with asthma. But I want to use the next few … and they complained that their health was being seriously affected by the queues of vehicles in the village, waiting with their engines running, and the smoke coming out of the exhaust pipes affecting their health, and they were …

10 February 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment and Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Care Winter Plan 2021 to 2022: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services

… this in particular, because I know a lot of people who are in situations where they're waiting for those memory assessments. And that's why we've given an additional recurring £3 million to try and support … intervention can be very helpful here. It is a priority within the dementia action plan, to have that timely diagnosis. And what we've got is monitoring happening now, through that dementia action plan monitoring …

19 June 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Nuclear

… that's more than 20 years after it was announced. We don’t have 20 more years to wait to tackle climate change and our energy problem. There are other ways to address the issue. We have some … going down, and will be by far the most cost-effective option in the future. And by the time the stations are operational, I, like many, would hope that green hydrogen production and storage capacity in Wales would …

8 July 2024, Petitions Committee

New Petitions

… forward? I can only imagine how difficult it is, especially for residents, when they're faced, time and time again, with significant flooding issues. As we've been told, this is something that isn't new … that won't happen until early 2025. I can understand why the residents are so anxious about the wait. Flooding in Caenant Terrace is a long-standing issue, as we've pointed out. It has been in Neath …

13 October 2021, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Future of public service media: Ofcom

… was just waiting for it to unmute. With regard to the report, there's a series of recommendations that are quite broad and perhaps lack a little bit of specificity. And the landscape of media generally is fragmenting … deal with some of the recommendations you make. But isn't there a danger that by the time primary legislation is developed, the landscape has changed again and you're constantly playing catch-up, and that these recommendations …

14 June 2023, Plenary

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

… give evidence to the Petitions Committee. And I must say that I was (a) frustrated, (b) annoyed at times with their responses, and I've even found myself, with the agreement of the committee—and I see some … have prepayment meters they would stop paying their energy bills and they would go on holiday. I'm waiting for the response from the executive. I would be grateful for his clarification and evidence on that matter, because …

29 January 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3

Yes. Thank you. The technical reporting point relates to the period of time between Welsh Government receiving the relevant statistics from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on 13 September 2023, and making this Order. Succession … taken a further five months, then, for the Order to be brought forward, and we're waiting for Welsh Government's response …

8 November 2023, Plenary

Short Debate: Can carers afford to care?

… reduced the support available to them and their loved ones, due to the restrictions in place at the time. And I've had many meetings with unpaid carers who have spoken about the strain of not having any … with the Welsh Government to alleviate the pressure in adult social care, because we know staffing issues and waiting lists impact on those needing care services and unpaid carers. So, the wider issues that we discuss often …

8 January 2025, Plenary

Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Establishment of a school of dentistry in Bangor

… the health budget mean that it’s not possible to fund a project of this sort at this time. But let’s not put ourselves in a position where future developments could be delayed unnecessarily if the financial … could fit in with the funding process that we have. I'm very, very conscious that, if we wait for finances to be available before we start to develop a plan, we risk being on the back foot …

9 July 2025, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

… anxious as anybody to see the work that they've been doing. I think perhaps the length of time it has taken to produce the report probably speaks to some of the complexity that there is in terms … that. So, I absolutely understand the keenness of both communities and developers to get clarity, and I wait with anticipation for that report, and I absolutely do hope that we're in a position to see it this …

20 September 2022, Plenary

Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill

… Counsel General has very ably pointed out the problems that we have with so much plastic. By the time I've actually given my contribution, around 5 million plastic bottles will have actually been purchased, because 1 million … some questions. Counsel General, do you agree with me that it is regrettable that we've had to wait so long for this legislation when we're so far behind England and Scotland and it really is contributing …