20 February 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Special measures at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board—One year on
… fine detail. I think it's really important that, actually, the fact that those waiting lists, the longest waiting lists, have come down not just in Betsi, but the whole of Wales, have come down, is because … board have identified administrative processes that resulted in information not being shared between specialities and GPs in a timely manner, and work has already taken place to review this information to ensure it's still appropriate in every …
22 May 2024 , Plenary
Topical Questions
… listened to. I want my officials to take time to consider this report. It's taken a long time . I don't want to give a snap answer, because I want to give it the respect it deserves … make sure that we can make those payments within 90 days to those people who've been waiting for so long …
13 July 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
What I can tell you is the number of people waiting for two years actually reduced in the latest figures that came out just a few weeks ago. They reduced by 3.4 per cent. So, I think that … going to be knocked back. But I was actually very heartened by the fact that, for the first time , we saw those figures coming down in the last month …
8 November 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Water quality
… and only explores different policies relating to the control of storm overflows in Wales. We now have to wait for the taskforce to consider the report and identify steps, resulting in further delays to tackling water pollution … sewage. The save the river campaign have discovered E. coli levels in the River Usk at nearly 300 times higher than the minimum bathing standards, after taking samples from effluent discharge of the Usk and Brecon sewage treatment …
26 March 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 9
… depends where they want to go, doesn’t it? And the difficulty is, a lot of the time , they don’t know where they want to go. This was the very conversation I was having with my daughter … their shared prosperity funding—obviously, that’s in danger now in going forward, we’ll have to wait and see—where they do work in partnership with FE colleges and things, and I think that is the way …
30 June 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and care winter 2026-27 preparedness
… the issue with the graduates is not acceptable, but it relates to 2022, and it will take some time to work through the system. So, we are doing everything we can to work with representative bodies—Health Education … and the theatre spaces, and some of the backlog that we've got when it comes to the waiting lists, to make sure that we've got those up to date as much as possible. And when …
4 February 2025 , Plenary
Debate: The Draft Budget 2025-26
… the name of my colleague Paul Davies. I just want to thank the Cabinet Secretary for taking the time for a briefing ahead of the draft budget last month. I'm very grateful for that. This … propped up by the party of Plaid Cymru, and, as it stands, we've had the longest NHS waiting lists, worst educational outcomes anywhere in the United Kingdom, we have the least popular rail operator in Britain, and …
18 March 2025 , Plenary
Debate: The Estyn Annual Report 2023-24
… don't fail our young people in this area? We don't want them to have to wait until they're adults to have these opportunities to become confident Welsh speakers, so it's a matter of consistency … Wales have the opportunity to implement these kinds of case studies in their own schools, and have the time to replicate some of the things that we know are working well …
14 November 2023 , Plenary
The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2023
… access financial support, should they need it. Assessment to entitlement will continue as normal, but the need to wait for this support will be waived. The Welsh Government welcomes this decision and, as a nation of sanctuary … situation necessitates. I wish to thank the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee for considering the regulations in less time than is normally taken, yet still providing efficient and rigorous review. The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Wales …
14 July 2026 , Plenary
Debate: The First Supplementary Budget 2026-27
… result of the extra heat caused by human-induced warming. The authors of this report said: 'It's time we woke up to the fact that we now live in a country with dangerously hot summers. To protect … treat the situation as the genuine crisis that it is? For the people of Wales, these issues cannot wait until the next budget, or the next one. The climate change action fund has not changed but the reality …
19 June 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
… families that have to suffer the emotion of culling their stock, but also those sleepless nights as they wait for TB results as well. I was reading with interest an article in the Farmers Guardian, and the title … least consider the limited trial of culling affected wildlife, as the unions have been calling for for some time …
26 April 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee Report—Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s Accounts 2020-21
… spent here in Wales for the people of Wales, like extra doctors, extra nurses, ways to reduce the waiting lists, or even, in fact, to get extra teachers. Or maybe even help for users of public transport. The … could have paid for a lot of—and pardon my pronunciation—high efficiency particulate air filters for hospitals. Time and time again, glum-faced Labour Ministers stand in front of this very Chamber pleading poverty and austerity, telling …
11 November 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
… should help us to ensure that we have the right resource, in the right place, at the right time . I would characterise it like this: if you go end to end, an incoming Government will be raring … everybody crams on, whereas if you think there's another bus coming in 10 minutes, then you may wait and get on the next bus. It might be more comfortable'. Legislation is the same. If you have …
20 June 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
… with Mr Rees-Mogg on that, and I certainly was given the assurances I hoped for at that time , that there may be areas there where we do not agree and that we want these matters … had the legal challenge with UKIMA, the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020, on which we're still waiting for a decision from the Supreme Court. And also there are other pieces of legislation that are coming forward …
7 May 2025 , Finance Committee
Post-legislative review of the Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2019: Evidence session 2
… development of more and more people choosing—and particularly in Northern Ireland; I think we have the worst waiting lists in the UK—more and more people actually choosing to either use health insurance, or pay themselves … say, 'I think that is—.' It's not a power you would expect to use all the time , but I think it could be useful, because, unless they're publicly funded in private care, I am not able …
12 October 2022 , Plenary
Debate on the Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee Report: Review of the Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
… has always had farming embedded deep within it long before industry came there. We are facing really challenging times for farming, but we're also facing real challenges in terms of nature. We're in a nature crisis … committee report. There has been a challenge within the courts that was unsuccessful. The committee actually had to wait to see what that was before it brought forward its own consideration and have the Minister in front …
21 January 2026 , Plenary
Short Debate: The need for a national plan to improve Tourette syndrome services
… childhood epilepsy. Children with significant tics are funnelled into child and adolescent mental health services, with the long waits we're all familiar with. But Tourette's is not in itself a mental health condition, though … year battle being bounced around the system, missing vital parts of their education at what is a critical time in their life. And even with a diagnosis, there are no services for them to be referred to after …
14 May 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Tata Steel
… that, and people are being made redundant now. It's why the information is so important and so time critical. I also want to be clear about future training packages and what they could look like. Some workers … Some of those choices will be required in the nearer future and with a rhythm that won't wait for a monthly meeting. We're going to need to have something that designs and brings together the different …
24 November 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Homelessness - evidence session 3
… might lose your priority on the waiting list. There's also a load of other barriers around the waiting list to do with arrears, which I think is something that is underappreciated, and I'm keen that … are easy to answer because it can't just be about seriousness and it can't just about time served; it has to be a balance in between. So, it's not an easy one to bottom out …
7 May 2025 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government performance during the Sixth Senedd
… hubs and a new orthopaedic hub being built in north Wales now to address those waiting lists, and waiting lists have been coming down over the last three months. Free school breakfast and lunch in primary schools—just … and sports clubs to be energy efficient; Welsh Government grants that have saved our community businesses all the time . We have significant funding to deal with flooding—coastal, as well as within our towns and communities—so desperately …