8 November 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Water quality
… forward our concern for water. The key word is 'urgency'. Our precious waterways and ecosystems cannot afford to wait years and years for companies to fix faulty treatment plants and end polluting practices, when actually they're doing … that there is very little, but now is the time , and we've heard from Adam Price what we can do. Our rivers, our seas, our streams cannot wait any longer. Our fish, our biodiversity also cannot wait …
27 November 2023 , Petitions Committee
P-06-1346 Provide free and accessible public transport for under 18s in Wales to lower carbon emissions and boost growth
… think it's more just the updates when you're there, because I can find the times okay. On the trains, I think it updates a bit better. I use the Trainline app, and that does update quite … you're just waiting around and it’s just stops you then from wanting to use the bus, because you don’t know if you’re going to get there on time . So, yes, updating the apps and …
26 March 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
… high, decent standard. At the same time , we can't leave vulnerable people sofa surfing or staying in unsafe temporary accommodation while they're waiting for houses to be available. Lots of the work that's undertaken …
20 March 2025 , Health and Social Care Committee
Ophthalmology Services in Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 1
… appropriate for those patients. Just because they’re waiting for a cataract surgery doesn't mean that we should be doing glaucoma surgery at the same time . If they're being managed appropriately, actually, the NICE guidance for …
17 October 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Gender-based violence and abuse: evidence session with national advisers for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
… considerably, and the need for health services to understand the waiting list around the harms that women and children have experienced for a longer period of time is a real issue …
8 June 2022 , Plenary
Topical Questions
… ahead, making the renting homes Act's delay very poor timing indeed for homelessness services. The supply of social housing is nowhere near meeting the demand, waiting lists are enormous and tenants are facing serious threats. So, can …
24 April 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Education
… taken place to education here in Wales, and needing ample time for changes to take place and bed in. How long is ample? How long must we wait for those changes to be bedded in before we say …
22 March 2022 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… special measures of significant intervention. So, isn't it now time to raise that level of intervention to the highest possible level at once, rather than waiting another two months, as the Minister appears to be doing …
25 April 2022 , Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
… our health board a footprint that, at booking, support is offered if that's appropriate. So, rather than waiting until 23, 24, or even later into the pregnancy, we are offering support as early as possible in the … can do that and you can create the time —. We know that, contrary to some of the mythology, this group of parents do present early, they don't wait for antenatal care, they're not delayers—by and …
5 December 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Waiting Well: An update on progress
… NHS. So, what assurance can the Minister therefore give that the Labour Party’s approach to dealing with waiting lists is more than simply leaving it to the private sector? A key factor that led to the introduction … operations more efficient? Finally, as I have mentioned several times in the Senedd, the neglect of GP services in Wales is a glaring weakness in efforts to reduce waiting lists. We should be ensuring that as many people …
20 January 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
… the other thing about timber is that the long lead-in times , tooth-and-claw capitalism doesn't lend itself to that, because you have to wait 20 years before you can get anything. The current situation …
8 December 2021 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Mental health services
… write to the health board warning about overcrowding and day-long waits for patients to be seen. Doctors warned that emergency departments were so crowded that time -critical interventions in sepsis, stroke, cardiac care, major trauma and resuscitation …
8 December 2021 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
… What the exact sums will be, we'll have to wait for the statement by the Minister for finance in about a week to 10 days' time …
9 June 2025 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
… the Llywydd is to allow the committees to have a good look at that Bill at that time to structure their scrutiny around it so that they do the best sort of scrutiny. So, to give you … waiting on Royal Assent for it—through, and I had a bit of a discussion with the Commission at the beginning and with this committee too about whether people really needed that amount of time , and it turned …
19 March 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
… was contacted by a constituent who had received a devastating diagnosis of breast cancer. My constituent, having waited a total of 107 days for treatment, as opposed to the 62 intended under the suspected cancer pathway target, then … the target time been met. But after that incredibly mentally and physically challenging surgery, she was then told she’d suffered nerve damage as a result of the surgery and is now on another waiting list with …
12 October 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on COVID-19
… pandemic. Even now as we speak, there is an average time of eight hours and 15 minutes for people to be seen there, and 70 patients waiting to be seen. The situation has worsened since the closure …
12 October 2026 , Legislation Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
… wait for the response from them. On the point about the software and the misalignment of wording, I think it's important that it is checked out against others written around the same time , just to make sure …
11 May 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… the population of Wales is waiting for treatment. Well, that is the number of people on pathways, and there are sometimes people who are on multiple pathways at the same time . I think the other thing, when you … try and be transparent in Wales in the way that we count, so we count, for example, waits for diagnostic treatments, and there are a huge number of people waiting for diagnostic treatments—in fact, 60 per cent …
13 July 2021 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… Government Minister, because I don't think that can wait until the next term. And in relation to the Rhondda tunnel, it's a long time since I heard the Rhondda tunnel mentioned in the Chamber. I remember …
15 November 2023 , Plenary
Short Debate: Access to hospital care in the south-east
… those challenges do exist, of course. Now, in this short debate, I'll give up most of my time to quoting direct words of others—patients and people working in the NHS. Now, firstly, I'd like … called for an ambulance and was told the wait would be three hours, and as my wife pointed out to the operator, I would be dead by the time an ambulance arrived. We had no choice other than …