9 March 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Ukraine
… say, 'Go to Paris or Brussels, get an appointment in a week's time or a month's time , show them you've got the right documents.' When you're running from war, you haven't got the … people know that they are welcome in this country. I listened this morning to a father who is waiting for a visa to be approved, and he said he was proud of his Ukrainian family and ashamed …
27 November 2023 , Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Diolch, Joel. I think Members are content. We've waited a number of years now, and we await the outcome of the consultation. Hopefully, we'll have that sooner rather than later, and we'll bring this petition … total of 77 signatures. I should say, for the record and for clarity, this was at a time where Standing Order requirements meant you only needed a total of 50 signatures for a petition to be considered …
18 May 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Child and adolescent mental health
… order to impress others on platforms. Sadly, this has become very common, with people only sharing the good times and not wanting to show the bad, while they sit at home suffering in silence. A survey by Mind … told by many young people that they have been let down by these services, with too many left waiting for an appointment with nowhere else to turn, and feeling isolated and alone. So, we need urgent reform …
13 November 2025 , Finance Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27: Evidence session 5
… build social housing, but you also need to prevent the harm to those children who are going to wait for decades until those new homes are built. So, what is, effectively, a form of crisis support needs … got a safe place to sleep, a space to do their homework, and can get to school on time , because if you don't do that, then for those children, the educational harms, et cetera, the long-term …
2 October 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Inquiry into the future of general practice in Wales: evidence session 2
… you're quite right, and it's not uncommon that we see patients unfortunately with quite worrisome symptoms waiting for quite lengthy periods for the further investigation that they require or an intervention from the secondary care system … saying around technology and the shift left and ways to work that prevent hospital admissions and accelerate more timely discharge. But there's also something around being clear around what really does need to be delivered within …
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
… agree with Dr Christian Dunn. Now, be that larger fines or criminal convictions, I believe it is timely to look at strengthening the current regulations when it comes to how water companies are operating. Nobody here should … March 2023. I am correct that we're now in June. Three months later, we are still waiting . Why, and for how much longer? Minister, whilst you dismissed the fact that water companies should be facing tougher penalties …
16 June 2025 , Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… looking at this, not just through the summer but into the autumn as well. So, there is time to be able to correspond with that committee to influence it. What I wouldn't want to see is that … where we repeat what is taking place in other parts of the Senedd. So, I'm happy to wait until the Cabinet Secretary has made her statement, and to correspond with the petitioner again then, but …
4 February 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
… per cent. In 2023, gas set the price for energy in the UK 98 per cent of the time . There'll be hours when that 1 per cent from supermarket fridges makes the difference as to whether … there something the Welsh Government is considering, and are they willing to look at intervention, rather than waiting to see if things improve? Diolch yn fawr …
28 February 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Escalation and further intervention to improve the quality of services in Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
… themselves accountable and offered their resignation to you. I find that appalling, and I think it's about time that we had mechanisms in Wales to remove people like that who do not accept their responsibility for failures … emergency departments, our urology services, our ophthalmology services, our mental health services, and our cancer services too—people waiting too long for treatment, and the situation under the watch of various health Ministers in this Government has gotten …
13 November 2023 , Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… Ensure all adults and children have access to a dentist.' 'In October 2022 there was a 26-month waiting list to register with an NHS dentist and have a check-up in Wales. An open letter from the … BBC news article and finally say: 'Everyone should have access to dental care, regular check-ups and timely treatment.' Again, there is additional information available, submitted by Allan Hudspeth with 639 signatures, and I invite Members to discuss …
9 December 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers
… putting it on an oil and gas platform. Those technologies have been around for a long, long time . We've got 10 GW of offshore wind around the UK. So, our message is clear: we believe that … build the project by 2026, and if we miss that 2023 CFD target, then we have to wait another two years for the 2025 CFD, and it delays the programme for years. That’s when you could miss …
10 July 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
… see the Permanent Secretary in the Home Office—very generous of the Permanent Secretary to find the time in his diary to see the new Home Secretary—on the seventh floor. He invited him in, and he said … like in the Home Office.' The nature of the institution is that it is incredibly defensive, conservative, waiting for the next bad headline always, and therefore wants to deter any reforming Home Secretary from any programme of change …
2 July 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language: Tata Steel
… actually have those discussions. It's critical. I'm conscious that I haven't got as much time to talk about some of the issues as others. So, two quick questions. The transition board, you mentioned … and get some money out of it so we can get things going? People can't wait until next year, another six months, for things to happen; they need them happening now. Secondly, I welcome the possible investment …
10 June 2026 , Plenary
Welsh Labour Debate: School support staff negotiating body
… for childcare, we should be able to find money for these individuals, and we shouldn't have to wait for the perfect formula here, because the work has already been done. The single staff negotiating body will not … going to give them something different after. So, honestly, my plea to the Government at this moment in time is: please let's move on and let's get this done. Let's not just dilly-dally and …
6 October 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Transport: Strategic Priorities for the Menai Strait Crossings and M4 around Newport
… credible pathway towards delivering future roads-based and engineering solutions. But while this work progresses, we cannot simply wait . That is why we are also announcing a programme of improvements over the next five years. We will invest … that people will start to see over the next two to three years, with further benefits building over time . This will include improvements to the way the motorway is operated and managed, including targeted improvements to roads and …
7 July 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Post-legislative scrutiny of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015: Evidence session 6
Thank you very much. Chair, could I ask a last question? I know about the time —we're running out. We understand the Welsh Government is preparing to undertake an evaluation of the Act. Based on our discussions … opinion about that—prevention of preventable diseases we have not addressed, like obesity, diabetes et cetera? How about waiting lists or other health areas that are not evidence based at present, but could help depending on our investment …
13 March 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: UK Government budget
… gains taxes with rates of income tax, a move that could raise an additional £15 billion at a time of such extreme pressures on public services. While the high-income child benefit threshold will be increased from … children in poverty in Wales live in families of more than three children. Keir Starmer's Government in waiting may have lost the courage of its convictions to present a radical agenda to change this dynamic, but …
30 March 2022 , Plenary
Topical Questions
… been hearing, this isn't fair to patients or staff. The fact that there were 14-hour waits in A&E last night is indicative of a serious problem. I know, last October—you've been referring … their care, but overcentralisation of services is leading to just that. So, we have staff who are, at times , near breaking point, and patients who aren't getting the care they need. But, Minister, as well as what …
29 March 2022 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Building Safety Bill
… And there is a tension, as Alun Davies rightly identified, between the legislature and the Executive at all times , and that's how it should be. We face pragmatic judgments. Of course we could have brought forward our … book as soon as we possibly could, to protect the people who are most vulnerable, rather than to wait to get a Welsh Bill. Had we had a Welsh Bill—. It's been noted already by the committee …
22 November 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… Now, what that does mean is that there is likely to be an impact on those who are waiting for recall. But as I've said in this Chamber before, in that sense, I think it is important … recall. That is what NICE is saying, and you ask us to follow NICE most of the time , so I think it's really important that we are led by clinicians in this area. We recognise that there …