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20 March 2024, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Scrutiny session with Social Care Wales

… the strongest suite of data we've got. But what we find is there will always be a time lag. When people change jobs, the first thing they do probably isn't to come to the workforce regulator … got in the sector. We expect our data to lag behind that, because we need to wait for practitioners to update their registration status and who they're currently working for. A number of workers also hold more …

13 May 2025, Plenary

Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery

… the WASPI women are amongst them. Women born in the 1950s were denied their state pensions at the time they needed that support. Many women have died without receiving the money. It is a bitter injustice and they … have a meeting with me to discuss these issues soon. I am grateful because women are tired of waiting and they deserve this wrong to be made right …

8 November 2023, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: Conflict in Israel and Gaza

… signed the motion, indicated their support for it, or who will be persuaded to do so? My limited time will not allow me to adequately reflect the complex chronology of the Israel-Palestine conflict, neither will it allow … Palestinian population is also unjust and inhumane—1.4 million people displaced from their homes; 2.2 million people desperately waiting for aid as water becomes more scarce and power cuts more common; 4,500 children dead. I'll close …

22 January 2025, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Cancer services

… got cancer, you think, 'Well, if I read up here it says this long I have to wait', and then you're told it's gone from two weeks to 20 weeks. That is devastating. Worse still … attending and presenting with symptoms not once, not twice, not three, not four—sometimes as many as five times before cancer is diagnosed. A rare cancer was eventually identified with another constituent of mine only after intervention after …

12 February 2025, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Inquiry into child sexual exploitation

… monstrous abuse became even more severe. By the age of 20, she had been raped over 1,000 times. Presiding Officer, this young woman's life has been ruined by these despicable excuses for human beings, and perhaps … addicted to drugs, and these older men took us around the country to houses where other men were waiting. We were scared, and felt we had no choice. Over the course of five years, I was forced …

5 February 2026, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Group 13: Coming into force (Amendments 50, 51, 87, 88)

… that a future Government should be able to frustrate the will of this Senedd simply by waiting out a deadline to commence the Bill. This amendment will ensure that the next Senedd should either implement the Bill … deal with any last-minute issues in rolling out the licensing scheme so that the Government at the time would not be obliged to bring in a system despite knowing of those problems. However, the deadline ensures that …

16 January 2025, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language

… the time, and funding is just one of the things that makes it a challenge to find the time for teachers to be involved. We've provided more funding in the current financial year to help with the … more specific way. At present, any person who wants to undertake the course can go on the waiting list, make an application and then go on the course. We're not using the funding on the opportunities …

30 March 2022, Plenary

90-second Statements

… sensitivity, being either under or over sensitive to sounds, smells, light, taste and touch; they may need extra time to process information such as questions or instructions; face high levels of anxiety in social situations and have difficulties … diagnosis can be life-changing, helping explain who you are, thousands of children and adults in Wales are waiting many months or even years for assessment. A recent study found that only 28 per cent of autistic pupils …

20 September 2022, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… Welsh Governments have made this available to people who have found themselves, in their own locality, having inordinate waits placed on their procedures, which, as I said, does give a cost-of-pain crisis to that individual, whether … access that ability, where those facilities exist, so that they could get that procedure done in a timely manner …

15 February 2023, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Invasion of Ukraine and supporting Ukrainian refugees

… event such as the invasion of Ukraine, you see brutality at its most raw, and we saw this time last year the build-up of forces around Ukraine and the lies of Putin in claiming that they weren … saw human generosity, human commitment and human solidarity in those trucks and vans and cars, in that snow, waiting to cross the border to give to the people of Ukraine everything that they'd been able to collect …

22 October 2025, Finance Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27: Evidence session 2

… lot of weighting to inflationary forecasts and making decisions on the basis of inflation forecasts, I think waiting for a more up-to-date inflationary forecast might have been a good idea. This is already six months out … media coverage and interest that the Welsh budget has seen that I've seen for quite some time, which isn't great in terms of public awareness of fiscal issues. If you compare that to the budget event …

10 March 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with Alzheimer's Society Cymru

… that people living with dementia have their—or are certainly enabled to be at their best at that time of day. It was something suggested to us by multiple people living with dementia. The 4.00 p.m … drop everything and run to pick up your loved one from hospital, because they're in a wheelchair, waiting in reception to go home …

22 June 2021, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… demonstrate that in August 2019 almost half of those that received a referral for specialist CAMHS services were waiting over four weeks. I think in Cardiff and Vale it was 85 per cent. But where is the response … Minister in 2015, you said that it was important that the right people received treatment at the right time, but why, when it comes to mental health amongst young people, isn't that happening, even now, six years …

25 September 2023, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 2

… Government are taking to steps to close some of that. So, I think there's a temptation in times of economic crisis to reduce eligibility to prioritise some children above others and we would guard against that, because … reach a stage where children are not sufficiently poor to access a service. So, let's not wait until crisis point before we support children. Part of this strategy needs to focus heavily on the prevention of poverty …

10 May 2023, Plenary

Debate on the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee Report—'Annual report on the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales—2022-23'

… long open competition when I thought, in David Clubb, we had somebody who would give us a hard time and not be afraid to do so. I think that is vitally important. And I would say to Janet … the things I think they've done well already is innovate in producing blog pieces. So, not just waiting for large, set-piece reports; they did a blog that was well worth reading on the roads review, for …

10 May 2023, Health and Social Care Committee

Gynaecological cancers: Panel 4

… having a fractured hand, they wait because they don’t want to go to A&E and wait for hours to get help. So, the thought process and the way people seek help has changed. I think … emerging. But it’s important that when there’s a health concern, we seek appropriate help in a timely manner …

16 November 2023, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare? - evidence session 11

… the parents themselves might be struggling with a variety of special educational needs as well. And also, waiting for that diagnosis, the parents don't know how to support their child, because they're not getting the help … Also, then, going back to communication, communication is a word that you've all mentioned a lot of times throughout this. Do you think that that is absolutely key in ensuring that the child gets the best placement …

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

Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 10

… also know that around 50 per cent of people who are rough-sleeping were homeless more than three times under the age of 21. So, we know that there's a massive correlation between young people becoming homeless … happening in Cardiff at the moment, are really important pathways. But, in Cardiff, there's also a massive waiting list for those young people who need that appropriate accommodation service, and, when you get out of the big …

19 March 2024, Plenary

Debate: Final report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales

… run from Cardiff only two days ago, we must ask why the Welsh Government is devoting so much time and resource to devolution of these matters when it is cutting key budgets elsewhere. Perhaps intentionally, the obsessive-like … Welsh Labour Ministers and their Plaid Cymru partners should instead be focusing on getting to grips with unacceptable waiting lists, on improving educational outcomes and on better pay for people in Wales, the lowest paid in the …

25 June 2025, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: Funding formula for Wales

… These aren't just statistics, they're real people, real families facing hardship, and often struggling to access timely care and support. The ability to provide the necessary social care for our loved ones is now at breaking … see the Welsh Government spending over £1.5 billion since the last election on emergency measures to cut waiting lists. Yet what has that investment achieved? A staggering increase of nearly 200,000 in those same waiting lists. Meanwhile …