, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
… think about. So, when we know that it's going to be hot weather in a month's time, we should be planning to run longer trains, once we have our new trains in the area where … off—how much space do you provide for disabled people? I think that they should never have to wait or be—. Well, it's illegal, and we shouldn't do it. So, we should always be allowing people …
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: Evidence session 7
… will, Chair, thank you, and I'll go through it quickly. I'm conscious of the time. Obviously, I mentioned schools—£5.3 million. I just want to say what I feel about education and schools. Education is the … what Llinos said, there are disability facility grants, which do adaptions in people's homes, when they're waiting in the hospital to come out. Slips and falls, handrails and everything, adaptions within the property, walk-in showers …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
Thank you, Llywydd. This is the first time for me to ask questions as the housing spokesperson. I'd like to thank Julie James for her very constructive collaboration while both of us were part of the … issue for hundreds of thousands of people, and those suffering most are the 90,000 people who are waiting for social housing, and the 11,000 people who are in temporary accommodation. Historically, I understand that Wales has …
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
… remedy that. But your guidance alone is stopping potential house building going ahead, and it's more the time factors that are involved. One thousand seven hundred of those houses that are being held back are in fact … this stoppage of 10,000 homes going forward—? What are you doing to try and negate these long waits …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on Coronavirus
… which is why we will take things cautiously and carefully and try and analyse the data in real time. You asked about the flow of the variant from England into Wales, and you will be aware of how … terms of closing that border. There is a huge challenge—no question about it—when it come to waiting lists in Wales. You will have seen that not only did I announce the £100 million additional funding, but …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Business rates for self-catering accommodation
… can't answer the question—I'll just wait for the interpretation—I can't answer that question, I'm afraid, Janet, because it wasn't clear what the purpose of the wording of the motion was … which is what it should be referring to. It's like trying to search for train times on the Transport for Wales app. I don’t know if you've noticed, but, if you input the wrong time …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Stroke
… reorganising air ambulance services mean that people in the hardest-to-reach areas are going to have to wait longer for A&E to reach them, because, of course, that's what the air ambulance … see that as a strange thing. I'm perfectly happy for the health committee—if we can make time for it; maybe we can have a conversation with the Chair about that—to look at that area, but …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… absolutely an essential part of how we do drive down waits for all of our constituents. If you look at the programme we've been trying to undertake before the pandemic and afterwards, you can't go back … want to work in a different way. Getting different organisations to agree how to do that takes more time. But the two examples that you have given are good examples of where that's happened. It's been …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The Senedd election
… the outcomes. You need to own that you were the enabler, and the outcomes are plain to see. Waiting lists remain out of control, unemployment is through the roof, educational outcomes are the lowest in the UK, businesses … and trust me, between now and May, we will be reminding them of that. At the same time—[Interruption.] I won’t if that's all right. At the same time, if Plaid took Wales to independence, they …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… think also we've got to understand that actually over half of people are seen within the time frame, so it's not all bad, but of course we're not reaching anything like the targets that … this week, as well. There will be outcomes as a result of that summit, so I'm just waiting to hear exactly what's happening. So, of course the situation needs some focus, which is why …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny session with Social Care Wales
… the workforce is about 85,000. We don't register everybody, but we've got, for the first time, a large cohort on our register, so we can be much more confident that we know more about our … able to have comparable data to England. But we've been very much in a developmental phase, waiting for the Government to have sufficient funds to fund us to develop a data portal, as an example …
, Plenary
Member’s Legislative Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): A Bill on corporate parenting
… was even persuaded to retract her statement. Years later, she found the courage to come forward again, this time with evidence from another child, and still no prosecution, no day in court, just the decision: no further action … culture—a culture that listens to children, a culture that understands trauma and a culture that does not wait for perfect evidence before stepping in to protect a child. Because behind every policy is a child, a child …
, Plenary
Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2023-24
… situation where fiscal issues in Wales are presented to us as a fait accompli, without much time, if truth be told, to scrutinise them. And I echo the calls made by the committee Chair for a review … our health service, are on a totally unsustainable path under this Government. We’re constantly seeing lengthy waiting lists, we are seeing target after target being missed, and despite the commitment of the incredible staff we have across …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Health emergency
… Thank goodness, a year ago we had a change of UK Government that has turned the taps on. Waiting lists are coming down. We have a new orthopaedic hub being built in north Wales, which will transform elective … where we need to be. The health board is a big, complex umbrella organisation and change takes time to embed. But thanks to the Welsh Labour Government, we have seen significant investment to increase recruitment into the health …
, Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
… how we can use their capacity to be really proactive around looking at quality assurance. So, instead of waiting until people ask for reviews of decisions, this officer is putting together a programme at the moment of how … add that that's a new approach that we'll be putting in place. But for quite some time, there's been the approach in place where people can ask for reviews. So, if someone brings a complaint …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Endoscopy services: evidence session with cancer organisations
… address workforce shortages. We know that it is capacity in the system that is driving these long waits. In terms of your question on solutions, yes, I'd definitely come back to community diagnostic hubs. In the long … about maximising retention. So, it feels basic but it's things like thinking about flexible working and part-time working—how can the NHS support particularly people who are thinking about retirement, but lots of us are thinking …
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… HRT and things like that—because for quality of life, access to the appropriate treatment at the right time is fundamental to her well-being, and that of many thousands of women across Wales. So, whilst this … wouldn't know what it's other like in other health boards, and that we've got to wait for a petition for each case, before we stimulate a bigger discussion. So, I thank the petitioner for bringing …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… London, which has a population of over nine million people, had a similar amount of 32,953 people waiting more than six weeks. Recent Office for National Statistics data shows that, out of the 331 areas in the … that Welsh NHS dentistry in its current state is unlikely to exist in a year or two's time. With this in mind, First Minister, what steps has the Welsh Government taken to improve on these appalling statistics …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Wales-specific COVID inquiry
… former health Minister come before us to explain their actions, or lack thereof. All we can do is wait for the UK COVID-19 inquiry to report and try and ascertain what they've missed. How, I don … just not possible to get a handle on such important topics in such a short period of time, but that is what the UK inquiry aims to do. We on this side of the Chamber have long advocated …
, Plenary
Reform UK Debate: A Welsh Rivers Act
… also working with the UK Government to bring forward the necessary legislative consent motions in a timely way, making sure that decisions affecting Wales are subject to Senedd scrutiny here in this Chamber. Now, alongside this … designed to deliver long-term environmental and economic outcomes for Wales. But while reform progresses, we won't wait to act. We will continue to strengthen monitoring of pollution incidents, and I will seek assurances from Dŵr Cymru …