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14 December 2022, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services

… team of 13 staff across medical and science teams have been recruited, and 6.6 of these are full time. I think it's unfair to say that it's just in south Wales. I know that the Llywydd … recently, and they certainly had areas where there are simulation areas as well. Obviously, we'll have to wait and see how things develop in the school. You'll be aware that the capital constraints are very, very …

19 February 2025, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: 'Ending corridor care in Wales' report

… flow can mean that people do wait for long periods for a hospital bed in accident and emergency departments, medical assessment units or other parts of the hospital. In these challenging times, the commitment of our healthcare workers …

4 February 2025, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… two-year waits, which you as health Minister promised to eliminate in 2023 and 2024, have increased to almost 25,000, yet in England, this figure is 151, despite England's population being around 20 times higher than … NHS is clearly broken. First Minister, you've previously outlined your commitment to reduce the number of patients waiting more than two years to 8,000 by the spring; do you stand by that promise …

29 September 2021, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Economy

… much longer that you have to wait for much more detail on our ambitions and how we're going to work with businesses through, as I say, a time that is still challenging, but we're looking forward …

18 September 2025, Finance Committee

Financial implications of the British Sign Language (Wales) Bill: Evidence session

… deaf BSL signers in Wales. Timely access to BSL for deaf babies and children—that’s an example of the action of the Welsh Government. Mark, I know, doesn’t want to wait, and certainly not our stakeholders …

14 July 2026, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… September, waiting to scrutinise those figures. But, First Minister, if your supplementary budget is voted down today, are you prepared to come back during the summer recess with a revised budget, or is this a part-time Plaid …

20 March 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Ophthalmology Services on Wales: evidence sessions - Panel 4

… people are diagnosed and how people are supported at that point, as well as receiving treatment in a timely manner. One of the stories I have is about a young woman who was a single parent. She … discharge you. You're going to go blind.' She then left. She went and sat in the waiting room in the hospital. She was told that she was distressing other people in the waiting room, so she was …

1 March 2023, Local Government and Housing Committee

Building safety - evidence session 2

… fell through, and they'd been waiting for years for an opportunity for something to come up, and it was because they just weren't able to move in time …

24 January 2023, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… threatening situation—a red call—they could wait as long as 15 minutes in Powys. The target, as you know, for those red calls, is eight minutes, and the last time those targets were met was July …

16 January 2024, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Winter pressures in healthcare

… they think it's the appropriate time for us to initiate mask wearing within our hospitals. And I think there are occasions, and we have to make sure that we wait for the right occasion for that …

5 February 2026, Local Government and Housing Committee

Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 3

… the lead-up to the elections. It was very quickly established there wasn't going to be time to deal with some of this legislation. I guess there is an argument there that if you decide that housing … legislation that are going through and go, 'Well, actually, we could bump that one, that one could wait, and we could put this one in front of it'. But, obviously, the public, I guess, have no understanding …

19 March 2025, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

… Sadly, though, even after this wait, people are being called for operations only to have them cancelled the morning of the operation. One constituent I have has had this happen three times and, of course, she had …

30 June 2026, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy Minister for Transport: Integrated Transport: North-South Coach Services

… time is actually the T4 service, which goes from Newtown to Cardiff—or at least it used to—via Brecon. It now stops at Merthyr, and at Merthyr, you have to get off the bus and wait for …

30 June 2026, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… waiting is literally a part of the publication of the EHRC code of practice, in that it is published and then we await to see what the response is. And if, at a certain point in time, which …

22 September 2025, Petitions Committee

Evidence session - Panel 2: P-06-1510 Direct NRW to revoke the environmental permit and ensure the closure of Enovert’s, Hafod Landfill Site in Wrexham

… received, we've never waited for NRW to come to Enovert to say that we need to undertake actions. We have generally been very proactive in providing those action plans ahead of time, and, quite often, when NRW …

23 October 2024, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: UK Government Budget

… those later. What we can't agree is the underlying assertion of the motion, repeated time after time by Plaid Cymru Members, that the election of a Labour Government in Westminster—a preference endorsed in 27 of the … difference. And we wait for the budget to see it. The motion, and those who support it, are a mixture of the student union debating society—. I lost count of the number of times in which Plaid Cymru …

20 November 2025, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Development of Tourism and Regulation of Visitor Accommodation (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 9 - Final Scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language

… system here. By the time the detail of how it will operate in practice is required, the register will be available. I'm not certain that I would have been prepared to have waited another three or four …

2 December 2021, Health and Social Care Committee

Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing people with different health conditions

… that once people fall in to that waiting list there's a very strong, very clear pathway of the support and interventions they have until they come to that surgical time …

18 November 2021, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 2

… years—four years or more, at times—because they have to develop it well in advance of the year they're going to implement it, and we have to wait until the data is available afterwards to see …

3 November 2026, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

… promises when we've still got hundreds of thousands of people on waiting lists and lots of people waiting over two years in spite of your broken promises. Now, if I can turn to the First Minister. First … victim and survivor of grooming gangs. She was trafficked around the UK and raped more than 1,000 times by hundreds of men. Your predecessor as First Minister declined every invitation I made to meet with Emily Vaughn …