, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… not a human calculator, so I’m not going to be able to make that judgment in real time, I’m afraid. But I’m very happy to make sure that he has the correct numbers. The larger … well as, of course, the commitment in relation to the size of the waiting list, which is also important, and the timely access to diagnostics. We’ve been very clear in our expectations of health boards in delivering …
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Rural Resilience and Sustainability: Update on the Deposit-return Scheme
Well, what I would say initially is if we pause, if we wait, then I have no doubt that you would be on your feet then complaining about the risk of fraud. Because the rest of the … point: we work up to October and the start date. I can't wait for us to get a point where, in five years' time, potentially, when the deposits kick in in terms of people paying, we will …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
… been commissioned in England, I think, is long overdue. I mean, we’ve been waiting for this for a long time. And I think there was some disappointment in some areas that the second phase of that work …
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Rebalancing Care and Support White Paper—Next steps
… make, and working co-productively and working in partnership is not easy to do, it takes some time, and we are committed to taking this forward in a co-productive way. So, we will continue to build … going to be their direction of travel for social care. I know we've been waiting for this for a long time, and if we don't get something within the timescale that we've been given …
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… around some of the waits that patients in Wales are facing and the conditions in which they're waiting. Again, I think it's important for us to say that I don't think that is necessarily … for a debate as soon as possible or do we hang fire, wait until the December period has passed, which we know is normally the time where the greatest amount of pressure is on the NHS, and then …
, Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: The First Minister's Priorities
… Wales to believe things can be different, that we can tell them that NHS waiting lists will be different in two years' time, that we can tell them that child poverty will be reduced, that we can tell …
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
… protect and restore biodiversity that certainly Delyth and I have discussed quite a lot of times in Plenary. We're still waiting on the outcome of COP15 and to develop those targets. So, we're definitely talking about … the legislation for the Senedd, actually—are in discussion about quite where the committee, Senedd and Government time is coming from to get all of these things to line up. I know, Llyr, that you've made representations …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… sector and cross-border to ensure that capacity is created, so that patients aren’t waiting for these undue lengths of time …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Management of NHS pressures
… worse and a more significant position in Wales. We've got the slowest ambulance response times on record, the longest treatment waiting list and the worst A&E waits in Britain. That is fact and that's what … should have started five years ago. The workforce challenges that we have have been there for some time. As opposition parties in this Chamber, our job is to scrutinise, our job is to hold you, Minister, to account …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… Because if people can't attend a GP, they often revert to A&E, making those extortionately long waits that people are experiencing much worse. The Welsh Government needs to ensure that GPs are accessible to their communities … really solid one, because patients need to be seen within a reasonable time. One constituent told me they had to wait two weeks just for a phone call from a doctor. I mean, that's just not okay …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The NHS
… what grown-up politics is about; you might want to learn about it and try it some time. Furthermore, the far right’s fascistic plans for mass deportations of thousands of people who live and work here legally … this Government has spent over £1.5 billion on measures to tackle waiting lists only to see the backlog increase by almost 200,000 people in that time. Even the very low bar that the First Minister set herself …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
… landlord, speculator-driven agri-industrial type of farming we see elsewhere. So, in these uncertain times, Minister, with changes in funding, waiting for funding from the UK Government to be confirmed post Brexit as well, our biodiversity targets … long term, for sustainable food, a sustainable environment and sustainable communities in Wales? And would she at some time come and visit Cwm Risca, because I know the welcome would be good, the discussion great, and the cake …
, Health and Social Care Committee
Supporting people with chronic conditions: evidence session with mental health representatives
… haven't maybe delved into too much, but it's about bipolar disorder. The wait to access diagnosis or treatment times is very, very long, and I think Bipolar UK have been very vocal, understandably, about having …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… that isn't just about their physical ailment but about coping with the process of waiting, especially if that is prolonging the time before they can interact with friends and family more easily. So, First Minister, what support …
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and Care Priorities
… any Minister can hold, because behind every statistic is a person, a family, and often someone who has waited far too long. You have said, Cabinet Minister, that the system is beset by crisis. You’ve said patients … are you going to take before the autumn, because time is ticking? And on prevention, I agree with you. We cannot keep treating in a system that actually waits for people to become seriously ill before acting. Sport …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… falling in out-patients. Diagnostic waits and therapy waits continued to fall, particularly in therapy waits, last month. And the median time—the standard time—it takes to be treated in the Welsh NHS, from the minute your …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… eventuality is covered. Otherwise, the letter to health boards is clear: we expect those long waits to be eliminated within the time frame that the leader of the opposition has identified …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Pensions
… see justice. Whether by design or bureaucratic indifference, the effect is the same: fewer and fewer beneficiaries as time passes and less cost to the Treasury in consequence. I've spent years representing these workers, I've sat … not merely justice denied, it is justice forever lost for every scheme member who dies waiting for what is rightfully theirs. The time for words is over, the time for pension justice is now …
, Plenary
Topical Questions
… lot of work to do on flow, but I want people, while they're waiting, to have a more pleasant time than they are now, which is why we're putting some additional facility and support into the …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
… she actually was waiting for £75,000 reimbursement from the Welsh Government, and had been waiting for it for quite some time; nearly a year, I think she meant. And I was really shocked, because …