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2 July 2025, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales

… child, who is 22 months old. Then, the next bus that comes—. I have to wait for a very long time for that next bus. Indeed, it's far easier to use the car on occasion. But there …

14 January 2026, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

… years to house asylum seekers. While the council claims this will not affect those on housing waiting lists, I'm being contacted by local people who are sofa surfing and in temporary accommodation who are desperate for housing … via different routes? Does she accept that many will see this as unfair at a time when local families are still waiting for a home? Cabinet Secretary, will you instruct councils across Wales not to enter this scheme …

12 July 2023, Health and Social Care Committee

NHS waiting times: evidence session with health bodies

… point: in a way, they do impact on the work, but it's—. We've felt for some time, and have put the case, that it's more important to measure the positive outcome, rather than to measure … moment it's a measure of activity. They're not islands. If you're on a waiting list for a long time, obviously your well-being is going to be negatively impacted. But we do need …

7 July 2023, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister

North Wales

… read stuff in the media about difficulties in A&E departments and the length of time people are having to wait, and then you look at the percentage of people who end up in an A&E department … The people who we rely on to work in A&E departments spend an awful lot of their time responding to harm that need never have happened. It's the people who work there who seem to get …

4 March 2026, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

General ministerial scrutiny: The Welsh Language

… drives the way that we're going about things in the Government. At the same time, we don't have to wait until that point; we can take steps to put that idea into other strategies that …

16 October 2024, Plenary

Short Debate: Ensuring all children can thrive: Celebrating alternative education in Wales

… independent providers. EOTAS can also be delivered through a combination of these services, and could include spending some time in a mainstream school and at some of these wider services. It is about what is needed to support … provision, including EOTAS delivered through our pupil referral units. We want to ensure no child is waiting an excessive amount of time before they access the support they need. We also want to better understand the pressures local …

26 January 2023, Health and Social Care Committee

Scrutiny of the Chief Nursing Office for Wales

… home for support in the home for something like a two or three-times-a-day package of care. Whilst waiting for that full package to be put in place, the request was whether a conversation could … day until that full package could come into effect. I think that is a fair request, at a time when the harm in the community is so high, when patients can’t be seen, when they cannot …

2 February 2023, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Services for care-experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 4

… these things can be fixed quite quickly and some of these things will take a very long time, so they're not expecting the moon on a stick; they're not expecting things to change overnight. They talk … different place and that perhaps some of those things that we have been waiting for for a long time will come. I think what needs to happen, though, and what young people are saying to us is that …

2 December 2021, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing people with different health conditions

… trauma and orthopaedic list, and that's growing continually. We're seeing increases each reporting time, and the number of people waiting over two years has drastically increased. And we're talking about people in extreme pain that …

5 March 2024, Committee of the Whole Senedd

Group 11: Recall of Members of the Senedd (Amendments 124, 125)

… think we necessarily should have to wait for the outcome of an inquiry by the Standards of Conduct Committee, because that, of course, could take a heck of a long time and then it all depends whether … post the Senedd elections that are scheduled for April 2028, which seems a very long time away to be able to wait for something that we could seize the opportunity to do now. So, that's why …

3 July 2024, Local Government and Housing Committee

Social housing supply: Evidence session 10

… simply cannot afford to embark on this year-long journey—years and years and years—because of those time constraints.' In terms of what is delaying it, I hear reports—and they're all things that you … summer bat survey, you get those aligned, you go to pre-application, and then you wait three years. By the time it comes back, you've got to do those bat surveys again. The costs of these surveys …

25 October 2023, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: Transport for Wales

… end of a journey in excessive temperatures. Terrible Wi-Fi. Only 57 per cent of services arriving on time. And it's not just me complaining, as we've heard today. Twenty-two per cent of people … patient: 'It's going to get better. It's going to get better', and we keep waiting. But at the same time as we've had the 77 new trains—and they're not all running, I can …

19 March 2025, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

Well, people should not have to wait in pain for a long time to have their orthopaedic surgery. I absolutely agree with that. I would say that, in the south-east in particular, we've seen … further. And significant additional funding has been provided to the south-east region in relation to its longest waits, and that will support those patients waiting for orthopaedic surgery. I think that he's right to say that …

18 September 2024, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting lists

… their health deteriorating further whilst they wait. There is a real duty on Government for everyone waiting longer than the target times, and a responsibility on the new health Minister, quite simply, to work differently to his predecessors …

17 September 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

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

… properly, and we lack that, so we feel exhausted. We spend an awful lot of time apologising for how long they waited to see us, and stuff that's outside our control we feel very guilty about. But … demoralising for a very stressed professional. Sometimes they're vexatious and they just take up a lot of time. Sometimes GPs are so hard-pressed that they do make mistakes, human errors, and all of that whittles …

22 April 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Governance of Fire and Rescue Services: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning, and the Chief Fire Adviser

… not yet in a position to say so. So, my understanding at this point in time is that we were waiting for Fenella Morris KC's investigation to be complete, to see what she very specifically had …

23 November 2022, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Mental health support in higher education—evidence session 9

… waiting for that length of time, but, obviously, I'm really keen to hear the voices that have spoken to the committee. It's really important that we do that. Since the pandemic, we have experienced some major … been lucky enough to have this year for mental health services, to support health boards to recover waiting lists and to develop services in priority areas, like children and young people. All health boards have developed trajectories …

5 March 2024, Committee of the Whole Senedd

Group 7: Review of possible job sharing of offices relating to the Senedd (Amendments 4, 62, 63)

… issue up and make proposals going forward, in this Senedd. We should not necessarily have to wait for such a long time. [Interruption.] Happily …

4 March 2026, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

Thank you. I was going to ask if you know how many children are waiting for treatment. You've just given the times, with 57,000, 6,000, 4,000, 400—I was jotting them down—'in total …

21 February 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board

… know how much time people have had to wait for appointments, care and treatment over the past year, and I know that that's been frustrating. There are reasons for hope, however. We must always remember that thousands …