15 September 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… lot of those people who said their treatment wasn't affected were actually affected, because if you were waiting for frozen embryo transfer, people were told that their treatment was not starting. So, there was miscommunication there from … Llandrindod Wells. First Minister, we never want to be in this situation again, because it is a traumatic time , not just for the mothers and the fathers, but for everyone going through a fertility journey. So, what can …
6 November 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Inquiry into the future of general practice in Wales: evidence session 6
… got a blood pressure machine in my waiting room that saves from nurse appointments, but it also means that patients can come in at any time to get their blood pressure checked. It's not only a machine …
27 January 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Waiting Times
… policy. What I know is that every person waiting for treatment in Wales at least knows that they won't have to pay for it when their time comes …
25 October 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: A&E department performance data
… order to avoid the four and eight-hour wait lists that have to be compiled. I don't buy Russell's argument that it takes a lot of time to compile lists. Of course it takes time … guidance to all clinical directors to explain who needed to be diverted from being on an emergency waiting list were those who were so seriously ill that they could not be moved, those who needed the continued care …
25 June 2025 , Plenary
Short Debate: Parity of access and esteem for addiction-related services in Wales
… Senedd. This is a problem I've come across many times in the cross-party group on substance use and addiction that I chair—people often waiting too long for treatment they desperately need, or, too often, the …
20 January 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… over a decade, and it's going to take time to build it back up. Now, what I'm not prepared to do is to sit by and wait and say, 'Come on, give us that infrastructure …
13 January 2026 , Plenary
& 5. Motion under Standing Order 26.95 that a Bill to be known as the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales (Membership) Bill be treated as a Government Emergency Bill and Motion under Standing Order 26.98(ii) to agree a timetable for the Bill to be known as the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales (Membership) Bill
… enable existing medical members without a licence to practise to sit on the tribunal without going through a time -consuming reappointment process. This will bring the eligibility of medical members into line with the equivalent tribunal in England … and the people whose cases are waiting to be heard. Llywydd, a Senedd Bill pursued through the emergency procedures is the only available route to resolve this issue in a timely manner and to protect the rights …
12 June 2025 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymraeg for all? inquiry - Evidence session on the role of festivals and events - Panel 5
… the evidence. We're very grateful to you for your time . Members, we'll take a short break of nine minutes before the next session. We'll wait to hear that we are in private session. Thank you …
22 June 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cardiff Airport: Evidence session with Cardiff Airport and the Welsh Government
… review and to consider. So, in a sense, we don't wait for formal reports to come through—we've got a lot of real- time information that we're considering. I'm just trying to think—and …
12 January 2022 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Health inequalities
… Plaid Cymru and/or the Liberal Democrats, that have run Wales for over two decades. And during that time , our economy has remained stagnant. In my constituency, gross value added has increased. It has gone from 59.8 per cent … not surprising therefore that the number of people waiting for hospital treatment has doubled in the last decade. Health spending has also doubled during that time . We now spend over half the Welsh budget on health and care …
1 October 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: Tata Steel
… record, and will she also—I'll try one more time —tell us what the plan was that Labour said they had, because we're still waiting …
9 January 2024 , Plenary
Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2024-25
… think, is the absolute shortest time in which we can possibly do that work without risking accuracy, and without risking the quality of that work. Of course we could have waited until today, or the first week back … have been welcomed by the Finance Committee, or the Business Committee, because it would curtail even further the time that the Senedd has available to it to scrutinise the budget. And, of course, we've got a final …
14 May 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales - evidence session - panel 6
… things. So, the health board has successfully ensured no patients wait more than a year for an ophthalmology appointment, and that's great. The performance in providing timely care for high-risk patients is one I know you …
26 January 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 2
… had city centre regeneration at the core there. But can you wait a few minutes? We're about to reach the official end of our scheduled time , but Alun Davies has some questions, if you could hang …
12 October 2022 , Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales—Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, and Estimate 2023-24: Evidence session
… pressure public services were under. It was a very strange time , wasn't it? I think what happened then was perhaps some of those complaints were waiting , and when things started to ease, people brought those complaints forward … That's been exacerbated, as you say, now by frustrations perhaps around having to wait for services, and the difficulty that some will be finding in accessing services. I think that's the case. It is the case …
19 October 2022 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Mental Health support in Higher Education—evidence session 4
Often, by the time we've actually got the information or they've been referred to services with waiting lists as they are, they've moved on to somewhere else by then, and then they start all over …
24 February 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… are still, to all intents and purposes, waiting , despite pledges that are similar to ones that we've had in the past. But the bitter taste this time is that it's only half of what was originally …
28 September 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: Evidence session with the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing and the Deputy Minister for Social Services
… committee will be aware that we now have an operational real- time surveillance system for suicide in Wales that will enable us not to have to wait for inquests, which can take many months and, in some cases …
11 June 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… years has reduced by nearly 78 per cent, despite total waits for children’s pathways rising just over 2 per cent for the same period of time . So, progress is being made …
5 June 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… their relatives. Forty per cent of patients in Wales are waiting more than 62 days to start treatment after cancer is first suspected. This is a time of great anxiety for people, and, as you know, Minister, behind …