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Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report, 'Natural Resources Wales—Annual Scrutiny 2022-23'
… themselves that they do not have adequate resources to carry out their duties towards DNS applications in a timely manner. So, this system needs to be reviewed to ensure that the application process is upheld and carried out … NRW should be leading the way on these issues and setting the groundwork to reform them, not simply waiting for input from other stakeholders. Natural Resources Wales, in its current form, is struggling; it's overwhelmed, and …
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Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Cleaning up our rivers, lakes and seas
… and make sure we weren't replicating things we're already doing. So, there's a bit of waiting and seeing on what those will be, but they'll be coming forward. But, on the Bill that … next steps, including scoping out the full implications for other legislation. It is very complex. It will take time and dedicated work to resolve, and you can see where I'm going here, because one of the challenges …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pupil absence—evidence session 5
… CAMHS. So, we don't know how many are waiting and we don't know how long they wait; that data isn't captured. So, although the number of young people accessing services in the last full year … you get qualified counsellors from when all local authorities are all looking to increase capacity at the same time in the middle of a crisis, really, where such staff are very much in demand across the whole public …
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Statement by the First Minister: The Wales Resilience Framework and Delivery Plan
… NRW, local authorities, the police and other fire and rescue services, and other partners, in just recent times, and, of course, each one of those throws up new learning opportunities, and it's important that we're able … First Minister that immediate lessons can be learned rapidly when things go wrong, rather than us having to wait, sometimes for many years, before reviews actually report and we can take action to plug the gaps that, sometimes …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': evidence session 3
… The other way of reaching individuals is to go where they are; rather than having an intervention and waiting for them to come to you, you actually have to find out where they go. I can give you … stress this—is a lot of our clinicians are NHS doctors and pharmacists, and we are working full-time. We are doing this in the evenings, on our weekends, and there doesn't seem to be anything, whether …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Wales Air Ambulance bases reorganisation
… the original proposal was brought forward last August. That's now effectively on hold, and we're now waiting for a further proposal to be brought forward by EASC, or the Emergency Ambulance Services Committee, another service within … sat behind the proposals is owned by the charity, despite the charity saying at around about the same time that it belonged to the Welsh NHS EMRTS service. When I raised this in the business statement in October …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Mental health
… have that support. Every single person helping our farmers and their families, during some pretty tough times of late, needs to be commended. Thanks, James. There are over 600 Samaritans volunteers across Wales, who respond to calls for … didn't even know about at their ages but are so prevalent now. The number of children waiting more than four weeks for a first appointment with mental health services in Wales is rising. Child and adolescent mental …
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Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and care winter 2026-27 preparedness
… you and I both sat through a statement by the previous health Minister saying that no-one would wait in an ambulance. So, we're not hitting that target—nowhere near it. And this is not safe … are going to be taken around that? The Minister also refers to stress testing. I'll check the time, Deputy Presiding Officer. The Minister refers to stress testing the winter plans in September. That is sensible. But when …
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: The Homelessness Action Plan
… rough-sleeping, the Senedd's Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee—and I was on it during that time—found that the lack of long-term, sustainable funding as a potential barrier to preventing and tackling rough-sleeping … used to provide housing? We know that approximately 67,000 people in Wales languish on a social housing waiting list for up to 18 months, which is roughly equivalent to around 20,000 households. These statistics underline that …
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales: Support for the Armed Forces Community
… more than just thanks. They deserve support that's meaningful and enduring. I'd like to use my time today to encourage the Welsh Government and their Labour colleagues in Westminster to reflect on whether their actions match … covenant. The covenant promises priority care for service-related conditions. But what does 'priority' mean when everyone is waiting for over two years? Colonel Phillips rightly asks, 'How do we tell an elderly veteran that his knee injury …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Social cohesion: Ministerial evidence session
… from each other. Again, in my written evidence, I did give some examples of good practice. Clearly, we wait till later this year for that update on the national survey findings, but some really good examples of ways … communities, move things forward. But there’s no question that this inquiry is coming at exactly the right time for us to look at all the ways in which we are supporting our community cohesion co-ordinators, recommitting …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Departure from the European Union
… the year. Partisan hype about the UK internal market Act is opportunistic nonsense. In reality, at the time of the UK withdrawal Bill, the UK Government agreed that UK-wide frameworks to replace the EU rulebook would … deliver the closed prosperity gap it was originally intended for and create the prosperity that Wales has been waiting so long to achieve …
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Women’s Health
… must change the way we provide healthcare for women and girls so they can access it in a timely way, so the NHS is responsive to their choices and needs and that research and development reflects women … more preventative space. While these two documents will set the course for the future, we have not been waiting for today to make changes to women's and girls’ healthcare in Wales. We have funded the women …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Cancer services
… per cent of people starting first definitive treatment within 62 days, reducing the backlog of people waiting more than 62 days, and, crucially, implementing consistently across Wales the national cancer pathways. Every month, senior Welsh Government officials, supported … the human papillomavirus vaccination, for example, will play an important role in reducing and, hopefully, eliminating over time cases of cervical cancer. But we're at a point, Dirprwy Lywydd, where obesity is poised to overtake smoking …
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Debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee’s Report—'Pupil absence'
… issues from it today. We have seen that additional learning needs pupils often do not get the right, timely support, which results in persistent school absence. The National Autistic Society Cymru found that 43 per cent of autistic … But we must remember that there are children now who need help with school transport, and we cannot wait for the White Paper to turn into implementation years down the line. We need to see immediate action …
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Welsh Housing Quality Standard 2
… the other hand, you would agree with me, I'm sure, Minister, that some tenants are reporting waiting up to 10 years for some repairs to be completed. It's also important to consider whether the WHQS pursues … study, the main drivers of tenant refusal are having rooms unusable during works at 43 per cent; the time work will take, 45 per cent; the noise disruption of the work at 60 per cent, and some just …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Solar energy
… around 14 fields in the Vale of Glamorgan. In fact, there are around another 20 solar farms waiting for determination, including Gwenlais solar field in Swansea, 31 hectares of agricultural land, Plas Power solar farm in Wrexham … are made. Forty per cent of the UK's solar photovoltaics are imported from China. Now, at a time of increasing global tensions, that, as a nation, we cannot rely on. Shockingly, GB-Sol is the only manufacturer …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The cost of living
… they were taken out of their cosseted lifestyle and forced to live on the breadline for some time. Perhaps Johnson has forgotten that he promised to end VAT on fuel bills, in an article he co-wrote for … free dental care and help with housing costs. This is why this debate is so important. We cannot wait for action from a Government in London that is so out of touch with people from working-class communities …
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Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: Annual Report on the Abuse of Older People
… face in accessing services. Will the Minister provide specific data, on a regional basis, which demonstrates average journey times on public transport for an older person seeking to access the closest sexual violence crisis centre, or specialist support … what are the Minister's plans to tackle, as a matter of urgency, this major problem of waiting lists for assessments, which prevent unpaid older carers from receiving the crucial respite that they need? What new compulsory mechanism …
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Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS at 75
… Working closely with transplant colleagues, she has used medical and technological advances to establish a programme enabling people waiting for kidney transplants to receive previously incompatible transplant organs. There are many families in Wales with multiple generations working … your appreciation—write to them and congratulate them, not just on the anniversary of the NHS, but every time you receive good care. They need their spirits to be lifted, and we all have a job …