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25 June 2025, Plenary

Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Allied health professionals

… the broader picture that health starts in our homes, our workplaces, our schools and our communities. It's time to fundamentally rebalance our system, shifting from a reactive model to a proactive one. At the heart of that … are having to leave Wales altogether. This is a scandalous waste of talent. At the same time, services remain stretched, waiting lists grow and long-term sickness levels rise. It's not a question of demand …

15 November 2023, Plenary

Motion to approve the Senedd Commission’s Budget for 2024-25

… people. We get referred to the rem board, and I have to say, despite raising it numerous times, I'm waiting to see just how the remuneration board work, because we're now on the term that … meet the running costs of the Senedd.' So, one assumes that it's the Senedd at any current time, and yet it is a fact that we're now feeling already the squeeze that Senedd reform …

30 April 2024, Plenary

Group 3: Disqualification from being a Member of the Senedd or a candidate: persons convicted of the offence of deception within the previous four years (Amendment 43)

… intervention. You talk about more work needing to be done, but you've heard that we've waited a long time to get to this stage, and I wondered if you had in your head an idea …

11 January 2023, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing

… relation to our two-year waits, and of course, you've seen for the first time that overall, our waiting lists are coming down, which is not insignificant. I think what you should take from that is the …

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The King's Fund

… members. So, to some extent, it’s anecdotal because the data’s not there. If one is waiting a long time—longer than one expected—to have what we describe as routine elective surgery, it doesn’t necessarily … able to contact patients and talk to them and reassure them that they are actually on the waiting list. In other parts of the country, I’m not sure that’s happening. But that needs input and …

17 September 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Inquiry into the future of general practice in Wales: evidence session

… list, but couldn't find a way to come off. And that person stays on that waiting list, lengthening the time somebody else needs to get to their necessary treatment. There are initiatives that you could fund …

11 December 2025, Local Government and Housing Committee

Group 11: Housing registers (Amendments 10, 76, 77, 78, 11, 51, 52, 12, 13, 14, 15)

… The provision in the Bill provides the necessary flexibility for Ministers to develop these regulations at the appropriate time on the relevant policy matters, and there's no need to change the current wording. Amendment 52 provides … information in relation to the priority they have been awarded and where they are on the waiting list at any given time. However, we must acknowledge the dynamic nature of nominations and allocations processes. Social housing waiting lists …

12 December 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language: Professional Learning Entitlement

… people in our schools, we'll be able to improve standards right across Wales. We have been waiting a long time for this, and I'm glad to see it actually come forward today. However, we know that …

26 January 2023, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 2

… absentee landlords and vacant properties. There are ways of doing that. I think there's a need at times to do that audit, in order to understand who in that town are the actual landlords, to actually understand … some fiscal barriers there as well about property, with some landlords being sat on a certain property, waiting for better times, perhaps, whatever it is. I think it's a mixture; there are some sticks and there are …

6 December 2023, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd

… local farmers, for example, that the service is difficult to get in touch with, that farmers, at times, have to wait for weeks before getting a call back, just to be told that the funding has come …

29 November 2022, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… fact that the condition they might have turned up in has greatly deteriorated over the time they've had to wait in that waiting room, or in that environment or setting. Several times I've raised with you …

23 November 2023, Health and Social Care Committee

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: evidence session with the Chief Executive and interim Chair

… focus on making changes quickly, and I agree with that—we've got a lot of patients waiting a long time for their operations—but making sure that we're also focusing sufficiently on building for the long …

12 September 2023, Plenary

Debate on the General Principles of the Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill

… set PM2.5 air quality targets. Despite your response to recommendation 7, why not look again? We've waited a long time. I always worried when they joined it and it became the soundscape—. You know, we've all …

10 July 2023, Equality and Social Justice Committee

The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 7

… relation to other agencies—criminal justice agencies, for instance—has meant that people have been waiting a long time, or they haven't had the updates that they should have, and they've lost confidence as that situation …

9 June 2021, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services

… appreciate the process that you've mentioned and outlined, but I think their concern is that as time ticks on, waiting lists continue to spiral. As I mentioned to you yesterday, Wales is now looking at a waiting … England, and this is not just COVID-19 at play here: before the pandemic, the number of those waiting over a year for treatment was triple that of the whole of England. So, whilst I appreciate what you …

24 May 2023, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS Dentistry

… cases now, in my casework, of people, particularly young people, some waiting for orthodontic treatment, having been waiting a long time and are starting to feel that that is impacting on their mental health, and I do think …

25 April 2023, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… rely on the health service to deliver across Wales. She cited three examples, one being ambulance response times, two, the waits in A&E, and three, people not progressing up the waiting lists, which would benchmark how successful …

27 March 2023, Petitions Committee

Updates to previous petitions

… colleague Mabon ap Gwynfor, I think, has set it out really well. Communities have been waiting a long time for a lot of these proposals. In the case of Llanbedr, it's been almost 50 years, if not …

12 October 2022, Finance Committee

Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session

… cases; about 80 per cent of the cases we investigate are health related, and they do take some time to investigate properly. There have been some issues around access to independent professional advisers, and that’s particularly linked … investigation, it’s a better outcome for the complainant, they don’t have to wait a long time, and it’s also something welcomed by our public bodies, by local authorities and health boards. If they can achieve …

2 February 2023, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union

… will now take a 10-minute break and return with the Deputy Minister in 10 minutes' time. I'll wait to hear that we are in private session …