23 November 2022 , Plenary
Debate on the Local Government and Housing Committee Report: The provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers
… delivered by the council-owned site. One home had a broken window, which had been waiting for a repair for a long time . Another had ineffective gutters for surface water. I was thinking that perhaps Gypsy, Roma and …
23 November 2022 , Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Mental health and community resilience
… often talk about that. People are never slow to come forward with talking about the time they're going to have to wait for a hip operation or the bad back they experience. We have to redouble our …
23 November 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
… that we fight hard to make sure that we do take meaningful steps now, not wait until 2030 or 2040, by which time it'll probably be too late as we'll have locked in embedded emissions …
16 November 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… you very much. Well, I know that there has been an issue, in terms of waiting lists for autism, for a long time in the Hywel Dda area. There are initiatives that are under way, of course, and …
18 October 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… that the ambulance can get back on the road again and attend in a timely way to other people who are waiting . That is the prescription of the Welsh Government. What do people who work in the service …
19 January 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: COVID restrictions
… reintroduction of this rule of six. An estimated 86,000 jobs have been lost from the cultural night- time industry, and these new measures had an average cost to businesses of £45,000 over the festive period. Research … need to support our NHS and staff on clearing the backlog of waiting lists. The recovery in Wales is going to take time , and I appreciate that, but the Welsh Government needs to realise that it is time …
22 June 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
… properties to be made safe, as you've just outlined. At the moment, they're waiting for that process, and, in that time , they're not able to sell their properties, upsize—there are a whole host …
30 June 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care: Health and care winter 2026-27 preparedness
… too. Significant operational pressures remained and too many people experienced delays in receiving timely care. Those pressures were visible in ambulance handover delays, long waits in emergency departments, the persistence of corridor care and sustained periods of high …
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
… read so many papers for today—but you talk about 'more likely to wait longer in deprived areas' of 1.8 times . Have you got a range for that, as in, it's an average of 1.8. Does …
18 November 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with primary care organisations
… Saul: given that we would like to keep as many people off the waiting lists as possible at this current time , is it time now, through the COVID recovery plan, to put a little bit more …
15 November 2021 , Petitions Committee
New Petitions
… consultation under way on this and this will be published in around three months' time . So, I think that we should wait and see what the consultation says, and in the meantime, write to the Welsh Local Government …
18 February 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… Welsh health Ministers have invested £1.5 billion with the stated aim of bringing down waiting lists, and they have failed. In that time , the number of patient pathways has increased by 200,000. Now, the First Minister tells …
10 February 2026 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… successful. We are now 10 days into February, and organisations that applied for this funding are still waiting to find out if they have been successful. It's worth noting that this funding is designed to last for … the end of March. That deadline falls in just over six weeks' time . Not only is this massively inconvenient for the third sector organisations waiting in limbo, and perhaps even holding back on applying for other funding pots …
16 October 2025 , Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales - Annual Report and Accounts 2024-25, and Estimate 2026-27: Evidence session
Because I suppose waiting a year for a decision is a long time in anybody's book, especially if somebody is complaining about an issue about health or something. It plays on somebody's mind for that long …
4 March 2026 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… had, with the funding that I have as well. At the time , we had children and young people who had been waiting in some of the health boards for over six years. So, we were able to invest …
15 July 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Environment Bill: scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
… But in the end, if we don't get it through at the same time as the UK, it will have to wait on our Bill, and that could be a year or more down the road … not optimal. So, this is, I think, by far the best way of doing it in a timely fashion …
17 September 2026 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, the Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health and the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health
… look at that validation part, making sure that patients, who are waiting to be treated, are in the right place—that they're not spending time on a list that is unnecessary for them. And that's why …
3 February 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… dentists are not willing to go into NHS dentistry. In Powys, 4,000 adults are on the NHS waiting list. In Radnorshire, which is paying the price for its rurality, we have Knighton, a town … who, five years ago, started dental treatment on two teeth. In that time , he has lost a tooth and, five years later, is still waiting for the treatment he desperately needs and is in significant pain. We hear …
18 September 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting lists
… but that's the exact point: it isn't providing timely care to hundreds of thousands—over 0.5 million—of people in Wales who are on waiting lists for months and years. That's the exact point that … paint a picture that our waiting lists are being cut in some elements, and trying to paint some picture that all is rosy. That's what we get from this Government, time and time again. Rather than taking …
8 May 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
… and how we can put that right. Rent Smart Wales are within their statutory time frames for processing licence applications. The average wait at the moment is a week and a half for the licence. The Rent Smart …