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18 May 2022, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Child and adolescent mental health

… and I saw that for myself amongst them. We also regret the time that far too many children and young people are having to wait for support and treatment. The third point, then, with regard to the use …

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

… not seeing as many patients as we could or we should, which is part of the waiting list plan that we've put forward, which is to improve the use of theatres in Wales. And it's why … can have greater access to theatre space, ensuring that people can be seen and treated in a timely manner. I visited a number of hospitals over the summer period, and I saw for myself where—. I won …

9 December 2021, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7

… answer your question specifically—is the time and the resource to be able to develop the existing workforce. From an apprenticeship provision perspective, there is not a workforce out there waiting to be recruited who have Welsh language …

6 June 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

General scrutiny session with the Minister for Social Care

Okay, thank you. I've got Heledd waiting, nobody else after that, so if any other Members—. We've got time for one more person after Heledd, so, please, just indicate if you want to come in after …

1 February 2022, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Launch of the new Health and Social Care Regional Integration Fund

… organisational level. Minister, how will this new fund and new models of delivering care ensure better, more timely care for patients? How will co-produced plans with regional partnership boards address the shortage in care provision? One only … that during the past year, excessive waits at A&E may have contributed to nearly 2,000 excess deaths; 1,946 Welsh patients died because they couldn't be treated in time. Minister, how soon will the people …

26 April 2022, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Planned Care Recovery Plan

… Living Well programme gives advice to people in terms of how they can live well while they're waiting for their operations. Obviously we'll be interested to see if and when other health boards will pick … know, I'm not satisfied with waiting for three years for that to happen, and I do think that that could potentially make a big difference in terms of people's time. You're quite right to focus …

14 July 2026, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution

… focused on the five priorities we've set out as a Government. We have said we will cut waiting lists, we will tackle child poverty, we will help families with childcare, we will raise school standards and … time frame for the productivity goals. But there is an interesting point here that we should reflect on, which is that we've set out a 10-year productivity goal. My colleague the Cabinet Minister—[Interruption.] Wait for …

19 February 2025, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

… after risking their lives for our safety, our veterans can have timely access to housing. One veteran from Bridgend a few years ago had to wait 10 years for social housing. Don't you agree with me that …

5 February 2025, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Stage 1 scrutiny of the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill: Evidence session with the UK Environmental Law Association

… the unitary authority, the planning authority, within which time frame they will issue a planning permission. Very often in Wales, that will be a four-month period. Can we wait four months? I mean, in Tylorstown, when all … the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016, and that, again, could take an awful long period of time. And it can get even more complex than that, if an environmental impact assessment is necessary to do the …

15 May 2024, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: GP practices and funding

… wheelchair can travel on each bus, so they sometimes have to wait. If there's more than one person in a wheelchair, they check, 'What time is your appointment?' So, those things are very challenging. But also, what … health, the strain, the pressure as well. We've heard about absences because they see, because of the waiting lists that we have, people's condition deteriorating, people coming back to see them more often, and the pressure …

11 October 2022, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… that the Welsh Government already does a huge amount to support parents through what is an incredibly difficult time. I just wanted to raise the experiences of my constituents, whose baby was sadly stillborn at 40 weeks. They … until they received the results. This is an agonising wait. My constituents said that it feels like their lives are on hold, and that an already difficult time is being made so much harder to navigate. Two important …

5 July 2023, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: National Health Service

… Britain, as Darren Millar pointed out, to cut NHS spending in modern times. And it's this Labour Party that presides over two-year waiting lists of over 30,000, when the number is virtually zero in England …

12 October 2022, Plenary

Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report: Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals

… real. It's emerged that a patient was forced to wait for 41 hours before ambulance crews transferred care over to A&E, and considering the target time is 15 minutes, this shows that calling it a failure … occurring, which in turn leads to the whole system blocking, resulting in overcrowded A&E departments and long waits for ambulances, which we see all too often. Part of the reason for that is that social care staff …

3 May 2023, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Public Appointments: Evidence session 2

… the application form, waiting to be informed about the interview, and then waiting for the outcomes of the interview. Since then—. At that point in time was when I realised there was such a thing as public appointments …

25 May 2022, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales

… many rehoming centres struggling with capacity, impacted by a lack of space for seized dogs due to the time it takes between seizing them and a section 20 case being heard to sign them over. Rescue centres are … centres, but it also means that animals are having to wait even longer to find their forever homes. Legislation in Scotland introduced last year reduced the time between a dog being seized to being able to be rehomed …

11 November 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 11

… that; often, people are expected to work. And with that time delay, there's a big problem there as well, because, if you're waiting up to a year to find out whether your adjustment is going …

21 October 2026, Plenary

Members' Legislative Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): An NHS first Bill

… robust governance and transparent performance management, these goals can be achieved, enabling health boards to ensure safe and timely care. Therefore, there is no necessity as things currently stand to introduce further new legislation. There is scope … afford to wait if there are actions that can be taken now. They want to see positive change now, and their demands are entirely justified. The ultimate test is whether the care provided is safe, timely, free …

23 March 2023, Local Government and Housing Committee

The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 4

… their apartment. I think they'd applied for social housing the whole time. There were only something like 280 social housing units available and a waiting list of over 2,000. In the case, it emerged that the …

21 October 2026, Plenary

Reform UK Debate: Prostate cancer strategy

… they shouldn't be left waiting and worrying about what happens next. For those of us in rural Wales, there can be additional challenges. A hospital appointment can mean a long journey, time away from work and …

17 September 2024, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

… Wales? We know that many things are sitting on ministerial tables waiting for decisions to be made and have been like that for quite some time. We need a timetable, at least, to have clarity on what the …