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Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2024-25
… postwar high. [Interruption.] No, I'm sorry, I asked three times to intervene on Conservative colleagues and three times I was denied. I'm repaying now the courtesy. [Laughter.] [Interruption.] I know, Janet, you'll probably be the … trash our public services, despite the efforts of those who work within it, over 14 years. While we wait for a better Government in Westminster—I have to say, a Labour Government—to repair the damage of these …
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Justice in Wales
… those for whom it is important to have that overall picture. So, I think, for the first time, we have a picture of what is actually happening in justice in Wales. We have a picture of those areas … well want to roll that out and roll it our quickly. We don't want to have to wait for a decision in London as to whether it's appropriate and whether it fits in within a plan …
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Statement by the Minister for Economy: Stronger Regional Economies
… debates I heard a decade ago, if I'm quite honest with you, and still my constituents are waiting to see the benefits of those conversations. So, I would like to ask you, Minister: where does the Heads … the delivery mechanisms? Because if there's one thread of failure, frankly, that I have seen throughout my time as a Member here, it's been a lack of delivery. We have had strategies coming out of our …
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Net-zero Strategy
… all know the problems that we have here in Wales with the grid. Why are you making Wales wait until the end of 2022 for you to set out a plan for innovation in new renewable energy technology … commitment to creating a marine development plan, which, as the RSPB have called for, for quite some time now, would be a statutory document that guides development into specific locations? Now, according to policy 27, you aim …
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Building Safety Bill
… deplorable this process is in drawing up legislation in devolved areas? The committee, for example, hasn't had time to properly scrutinise, never mind the ability for the people of Wales to participate in this process. The reason … drafted its own Bill to tackle these grave problems faced by leaseholders and tenants, but we are still waiting. Many of the clauses include devolved powers. The Secretary of State is responsible for most of these, and only …
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
… scrapping the tree cover of 10 per cent and reducing the general action steps. But, we're still waiting for a final version, and I very much hope that the Deputy First Minister will agree that … terms of implementing the actions, and will a new, detailed economic impact assessment be published at the same time as the scheme to show whether the final proposals will cost jobs …
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Statement by the Minister for Economy: Economic Priorities and UK Government Relations
… career, as well as those of us who have been at work for a longer of period of time, and how you equip and re-equip the current generation of people already in work. And you'll see … committee will give. On the Development Bank of Wales's green business loans, you won't have to wait much longer; I think Luke Fletcher has asked this as well. In the coming weeks, that launch will take …
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… door. I will also say, though, that I listen to many people, as I've already mentioned multiple times, who have lived experience. It's not always helpful to have a diagnosis and a label, and I think … think that when they go and see somebody, they don't want to be put on a waiting list to have a conversation with somebody—they need that initial conversation and then to be signposted. I think that …
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
… understanding that not all of the section 19 reports have been released yet. We're still waiting for the vast majority of them, and I believe the petitioner has also told us as well that, from local surveying … rain comes in. So, I would agree that I think we should write to the Minister one last time, asking the Welsh Government to bring together an overview, really, of the section 19 reports once they've all …
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Legislative Consent Motion: The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
… the same time, I recognise fully, and I've had this conversation with the Minister, about the timing of this LCM—. He will know that I would have preferred it to have come later in this session … didn't foresee any reasonable possibility of significant changes being made to the legislation if we were to wait one, two, three or even four weeks, and I think he's probably right. I think he's probably …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… seen huge improvement in that aspect, and I will give a shout out in terms of the waiting well. The RPBs are really, really fantastic in this space. I'm actually due to have a report today from … and get it under the two years. Let's continue this momentum.’ It takes quite a long time sometimes to get the systems in place to be able to do these assessments, and they're in place now …
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: LGBTQ+ History Month
… plan going and to actually start to implement some of those actions. But we're not going to wait just for the plan to be published; we are still trying to take forward a number of actions and … around the element of consent as part of that as well. We are still keen, at the same time, to run that very closely to seek those powers if we need them, but at the same time actually …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Inquiry into the provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers—evidence session 1
… the smallest family site. So, it's not day-to-day or week-to-week for those people waiting for permanent residential provision; it's year-to-year. That's the kind of challenge we're talking about … for social, cultural or economic reasons. Some families travel all year round, some travel just some of the time. There remain zero transit sites in Wales. For example, our advocacy service will sometimes receive phone calls from families …
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Topical Questions
… that would work in practice. It did work with Transport for Wales, which showed the impact on journey times would be marginal and they recommended that we take the approach of a national default speed limit rather than … the bus companies for their data to help us understand that. We've had some and we are waiting for more, and I'm perfectly prepared to accept that there are some routes where buses are moving too …
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Statement by the Minister for Economy: The Steel Industry
… facing job losses, and it’s vital that there is sufficient support for the workforce at this time. Today’s statement acknowledges that the Welsh Government also has levers and knowledge that will be critical in turning this … afield. Now, as I mentioned earlier, there will be Tata employees and their families who will be anxiously waiting to hear how the announcement will affect them, and it's crucial that Governments at all levels are providing …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First Minister
… countless occasions to publish all of the evidence supporting your decision to fire Hannah. You've had ample time and opportunity to set the record straight by releasing the evidence, and I think your reluctance … Our constituents, and I mean all of our constituents, want to see us tackling things like spiralling NHS waiting lists, our failing education system and rebuilding our economy. But, unfortunately, we've had no other option than calling …
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& 9. Legislative Consent Motion on the Victims and Prisoners Bill—motion 1, and Legislative Consent Motion on the Victims and Prisoners Bill—motion 2
… positive and final position on the Bill. However, the amendments were rescinded and, instead, we had to wait until April for confirmation of their approach, following which we reconsidered our position, delaying the production of our SLCMs … the Bill even since we laid that SLCM last week. This has meant this Senedd not having adequate time to scrutinise a Bill with far-reaching implications for Wales. I want to stress we have moved as fast …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The health service
… remains that we still don't have enough nurses. We're 2,000 nurses short. The Minister says time and again that the one sure way to demoralise the staff is by us pointing out the weaknesses within … fulfil their jobs to the best of their capacity. The stats speak for themselves. We've got longer waiting lists, and those waiting lists—. I appreciate the fact that the Minister says the health service has received around …
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Debate: Final report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
… Now, in practical terms, given where we're at in relation to the current Government and the likely timing of a general election, negotiation won't be able to happen until after that election. It's hard … the Brown commission reports on probation and youth justice. I note that the new First Minister in waiting has indicated that he, too, regards these as the low-hanging fruit. But I would stress that a piecemeal approach …
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Family Drug and Alcohol Courts
… parent's place, it accepts the parental responsibility. I believe that, but a good parent does not wait until a child has already lost their family before deciding to help. If we mean what we said about corporate … anyone took, not a judgment that this was wrong for Wales, just a court that existed on borrowed time and stopped existing. The Commission on Justice in Wales spent four years looking at this. It said …