7 February 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The health service
… get an ambulance to arrive on time . So, it's those statistics that show that things aren't working at the moment. Llyr then talked about the waiting list statistics in Betsi Cadwaladr. The clearest element …
29 January 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
… and that's the point that we're waiting for Welsh Government's response on. The first merits points notes that the law was incorrect for a period of time before these regulations came into force, but, according …
24 October 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru
… strategy over time , because of the time it would take et cetera, et cetera. I believe very much in the need for a strategy, but we can't wait for a strategy either …
13 December 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
… can't tell you the amount of times where we've gone to Llanharan or Pontyclun and people have been left on the platform. You've got to wait another hour, then, to get to the game …
8 February 2022 , Plenary
Debate: Draft Budget 2022-23
… sure many people across Wales, have eagerly been waiting for. I'm sure all Members across the Chamber can agree that this budget has come at a difficult time , as we continue to move out of the COVID …
9 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
… the things that I think we do need to do is bring that lens more consistently across all waiting lists, to make sure we understand the different experience of children and young people on those lists from adults … additional assessments over the time frame. So, there's a very rigorous framework for us to look at that. And just on your outcomes point, I absolutely recognise that tackling waiting lists is one aspect to it, and …
29 June 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Reforming our Union
… week passes, our economy is under pressure, NHS waiting lists are under pressure, our education sector is under pressure, and still the Welsh Government want to waste crucial time to talk about further reform to the union …
11 July 2025 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Welsh Government Delivery
… for five years, what are they waiting for. I got into real granular detail: why is it that, in some hospitals, they can carry out three operations at the same time as another can carry out seven …
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.
… needing to spend less time on the backlog and then it's able to see more patients, in turn. So, that's the general picture. Obviously, beyond the two-year waits , we want to make sure that people …
3 May 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Wales-Ireland relations: evidence session with the Cherish Project
… almost suggesting that it's a matter of time before we begin to get a much more positive outlook, so we're in a stage at the moment of waiting to see whether Westminster sorts out Horizon, basically …
18 June 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
… that we're facing with children waiting for a neurodevelopmental assessment and the impact that's having on their education. And I should say—and we've reiterated this numerous times to schools—that children do not need …
22 November 2023 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Digital and AI technology in the NHS
… possible. By embracing new technologies, AI and innovation in Wales, we can seek to tackle Labour's appalling waiting lists. What investment can we see that will speed up the process of bringing our Welsh NHS into the … prescriptions, and save time and resources in the process, as has already been outlined. I'd like the Minister to answer in her response on just how long my constituents will have to wait for this vital improvement …
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
Yes, but we also need to wait for further devolution in England. They've passed the halfway point now on mayors; I expect that to come to an end some time soon. That will make make an entirely …
21 January 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
… the Commons and is waiting for the Government to schedule a debate. So, will the Cabinet Secretary be encouraging Welsh Labour MPs to put pressure on the UK Government to schedule time ? And will the Cabinet Secretary …
23 April 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… Arfon that is receiving new NHS patients, and it appears that they've also had to close their waiting lists. Many of my constituents are unable to access the public dental service, which is an entirely unacceptable situation … several times by Ministers in the same terms. I understand that the academy has closed its books to NHS patients. They're not accepting NHS patients to be seen, nor are they accepting them on waiting lists either …
23 June 2025 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into dignity and respect: Evidence session 9
… that you have to ask the staff, and they will tell you. We spend a lot of time around the country asking people, 'Well, how is it?' And what they'll often say to us is, 'It feels … lots to do; our day-to-day work experience is still challenging, if we're outside a hospital waiting to be relieved, et cetera. But do we believe that you are trying to make this a better, more …
12 November 2024 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… transport’s team, with responsibility for blue badge policy, stated to them that he will now spend some time working through the issues that they raised, and discuss them with the Cabinet Secretary so that Welsh Government can … told on several occasions to wait for the new mental health strategy. But, at this point, they are nervous that deaf people may be left behind, which has happened so many times before. Finally, during the consultation phase …
13 March 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: UK Government budget
… hymn book as the Tories?' At a time when people are yearning for proper investment in public services, all we are being promised by Keir Starmer's Government in waiting is a rehashed version of austerity and …
10 November 2025 , Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
… Cadeirydd. This is the second time for us to consider this petition. From the Welsh Government response, we see that they're still developing a pathway, but currently people on a waiting list can be referred to regional …
1 October 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government: More homes towards ending homelessness
… published record of interest, in terms of family connection. I've raised in this Chamber so many times , Minister, both the crippling cost of accommodating the homeless in hotels and things, not just in financial terms, but … the minute waiting for homes. The spend on temporary accommodation in Wales has just ballooned, and so I would rather see that put into house building. And as has been said so many times here, it is rented …