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1 May 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Cass review

… the last five years. The clinical reference group warns: 'children and young people are waiting lengthy periods to access GIDS, during which time some may be at considerable risk. By the time they are seen, their distress may …

4 February 2025, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… telling me that we should be putting more money into the NHS and trying to cut waiting lists, when you're not going to vote for it. I really think that you need to think very seriously about … used to capacity, making sure that people turn up on time and deliver on time for the people of this country who are waiting too long. Yes, let's hold them to account, but we need to make …

4 February 2026, Health and Social Care Committee

General scrutiny session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Minister for Children and Social Care and Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing.

Okay, thanks. I'm conscious you wouldn't have had time to digest much of that yet, so we'll wait to receive that, and that would be very welcome. Just on a reflective note, what have been …

4 July 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS at 75

… waiting on a waiting list. Often we talk about statistics, don't we, but often people are there, waiting in pain that affects not only their lives, that they're unable to work, but their families' lives … here in Wales, with there being a 50:50 chance of receiving an ambulance on time and, of course, those two-year waiting targets as well, which really do need to be driven down. And I suppose the …

20 February 2024, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being: The Mental Health and Well-being and Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention Strategies

… pleased that we've got that in place, because we've got that real-time information that doesn't rely on us waiting for the outcome of a coroner's court. Thank you …

6 October 2026, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health: Stronger Safeguarding for a Safer Wales

… immediately can happen as quickly as possible, at the same time as establishing a structured route for those more complicated reforms, so that we're not waiting for one thing to happen before we are moving on with … course, to taking forward all of those recommendations, as I've said, this doesn't stand frozen in time. We have to keep learning. We have to keep seeing where there are gaps that need to be filled …

11 January 2024, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1

… into getting rid of that backlog, to make sure those young people who are waiting for their ALN assessments get them in time, so it frees up support in schools, which then helps the overall budget here …

4 December 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Improving access to support for unpaid carers: evidence session 3

… sister, Katana, I have been having school assessments at the same time as she's had a seizure. I have been in ambulances, waiting for her to get into the hospital, whilst also studying for a biology assessment … can't focus on my school work. I can't focus on myself, and I don't have time for myself either. It's mainly things like looking after Blake, prioritising Blake or Katana, and especially when …

2 July 2025, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Health emergency

… Perhaps that's why the current postholder might have jumped at the chance to be health Minister. Second time lucky, eh, Cabinet Secretary? NHS treatment lists remain shamefully high, with just shy of 780,000 patient pathways open … emergency ambulance response within the eight-minute target time, down from the previous month, and we are still nowhere near hitting the target of 95 per cent of patients waiting fewer than four hours in Welsh …

15 January 2025, Finance Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 6

… those patients who are going to make the cohort of 104 weeks. So, all of the time, as time is moving on, we know our referrals are up on the pre-pandemic level, we know our capacity and … can do things differently. But the patients who are waiting—there is a big cohort of patients, and we need to work through them in a timely and efficient way. We are going to be in a position …

14 May 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Ophthalmology Services in Wales - evidence session - panel 5

… could be managed in primary care, so we can move patients who are on waiting lists into primary care to be seen more timely. Obviously, in future, people won't be sitting on secondary care lists because they …

2 February 2023, Health and Social Care Committee

Endoscopy services: evidence session with Public Health Wales

… two that are positive and the 98 that are negative will get the result letter at the same time. So, there’s no delay in getting their result, it’s then that they make contact with our pathway … and have that appointment within two weeks, and then it’s the wait for the colonoscopy. And that’s the length of time that we need to be shortening …

20 October 2026, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Finance: An Update on Council Tax

… resources available to us at this time. I have to look carefully at the resources available to the Welsh Government to deliver on key priorities for this Senedd term—bringing down waiting lists, supporting families with the cost … will protect local taxpayers and the public services they rely on, and that revaluation could happen at a time when changes to the settlement formula are also being implemented. Every pound we spend has an opportunity cost …

17 December 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Improving access to support for unpaid carers: evidence session 5

… have had that assessment, they did listen to me, and I'm waiting for an outcome now. Do I think it is timely enough? No. But then I know, as the deputy leader and council member for social …

17 December 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Improving access to support for unpaid carers: evidence session 4

… access a carer's needs assessment quickly, not to sit on a waiting list for a carer's needs assessment whereby that time will have passed and the need will have changed. So, a more responsive system that …

5 June 2024, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: HS2 funding

… more blatant. But that's the attitude: forget Wales, which does not matter to them. Time after time, vote after vote, this Senedd has spoken with one voice telling Westminster to give us back the money … been here before in Wales, with this track that gets us nowhere. Instead of waiting for fairness to be shown us, it's time we demanded what we are owed. Let's send a message to them …

5 March 2024, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… make sure that ambulance response times improve. Now, at the start of this year, I was contacted by a constituent who informed me that her daughter-in-law had waited over an hour and a half for … January, and I'm still waiting for a response. So, I'd be grateful if you could tell us what the Welsh Government is doing to improve emergency services like ambulance response times in Pembrokeshire. And, more importantly …

24 April 2024, Plenary

Short Debate: Primary care and the preventative agenda

… offered by their local GP. On top of this, they may wait 50 weeks to get those same procedures that were carried out routinely and timely in the GP practice. What started off as an increase in workload … getting first-time patients through the doors. However, by aligning contracts with this metric, patients who have more complex issues are unable to get appointments. They are left with a choice between years'-long waiting lists or paying …

7 December 2022, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Annual scrutiny of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales

… been completed yet. I'm confident that it will, but we have to wait and see. So, in a year's time, we will have the outcomes of that project for you to look at and comment …

20 March 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Ophthalmology Services in Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 1

… You can clear the waiting lists, but unless you do something to stop those waiting lists building up again in a few years' time we're going to be in exactly the same situation we are …