Jenny Rathbone: I listened with great interest to Laura Jones say, 'If families can afford to feed their children, they should have the freedom to do so as they wish.' I think not. We can't actually stand by if a family is not feeding their child a nutritious diet willingly and knowingly and with the ability to do something about it. That is simply not possible. And the consequences, as we have seen, of poor...
Jenny Rathbone: I agree with a great deal of what Cefin Campbell has said, because he's said many of the things I've been going on about in the last Senedd, so I look forward to working with him on that. But I don't think that this debate is about that today; I think it's about the money at the moment. We simply haven't got the local food sources that we need. We heard in the business statement yesterday...
Jenny Rathbone: That's very welcome. And Cardiff Council's organised a Summer of Smiles, centred on the lawn outside city hall, which I'm sure will be absolutely wonderful, and there are many other things that are going on, which are laudable, not least the 'learn to cycle safely' courses, which the Deputy Minister for Climate Change might like to know have sold out completely. But many communities of people...
Jenny Rathbone: Thank you for your statement, which I've briefly scanned. Some of my questions you've answered already. I'd just like to ask about the moral hazard of developers being able to walk away from their defective buildings, because, obviously, the Grenfell disaster exposed the regulatory failure to stop people putting firelighters on high-rise buildings. If, and when, you get to have a discussion...
Jenny Rathbone: 3. What provisions are available for children and young people in Cardiff Central from the Welsh Government's renew and reform plan over the summer holidays? OQ56786
Jenny Rathbone: Thank you very much, Llywydd. Today, I went to collect the boxes of fruit and vegetables in order to deliver them to the local foodbank that I have been delivering to for the last 18 months. I was unable to get anything because of the crisis of supplies that is being experienced at the wholesalers in Cardiff. There simply are not enough fruit and vegetables arriving, which is really, really...
Jenny Rathbone: Thank you, Hefin, for proposing this debate. Inspired by you, I'd like to tell you about the wonders available in Cardiff Central; for example, the treasures available for free at our national museum in Cathays Park, much of it there thanks to the ingenuity, love of art and entrepreneurial attitude of the Davies sisters. Their extraordinary collection of impressionist paintings, bequeathed to...
Jenny Rathbone: Clearly, if we're going to institute a different way of paying for social care, we are going to have to legislate. But, hopefully, the UK Government will come up with something. So, in the meantime, I completely support your focus on commissioning quality outcomes, rights and well-being. I want to just highlight that the third sector are clear that health and social care systems remain...
Jenny Rathbone: —and their activities, and I can understand the reticence of the Government to want to add to the challenges that industry is facing as a result of Brexit and the tsunami, and COVID, but one of the things we really, really need—as well as the 20 mph default speed in residential areas, which is a huge contribution to clean air, but we also need to reregulate our buses, if we are going to...
Jenny Rathbone: I just wanted to press you a little bit on how we could improve and enhance electoral registration, because it seems to me that one of the most important things is that everybody is entitled to take part in elections, because if we have a large number of people not taking part, it really does undermine the democratic mandate of whoever is elected. So, this seems to me to be absolutely crucial...
Jenny Rathbone: —like the rope mussel producers who operate a sustainable business without any impact on the industrial exploitation of Welsh waters by large-scale European businesses, which continue apace. I look forward to hearing how the Government is going to deal with this really substantive matter.
Jenny Rathbone: I am very proud to be the species champion for the noble swift. I represent the most intensely urban constituency in Wales, and the sight and sound of swifts are one of the wonders of our summer evenings. Ely in Cardiff West is one of their preferred summer haunts. A survey in 2019 identified 14 nesting sites in those buildings. No survey could be carried out last year, and the results of...
Jenny Rathbone: As a person of a certain age, I remember the way in which Peter Tatchell was hounded by the press when he stood in Bermondsey 40 years ago, just because of his sexual preferences, and I hope we have come a long way since then, but, clearly, there's much more work to do. I'm sure people will be delighted that the Welsh Government is seeking powers to ban conversion therapy in Wales, because...
Jenny Rathbone: Trefnydd, I very much welcome yesterday's announcement that, if you've been vaccinated in Wales, you can download a Welsh COVID pass online to demonstrate to whoever needs to know that you are protected by two jabs. And this seems to me a really good example of how we use artificial intelligence and online data to ensure that we're not tying up the resources of health professionals on...
Jenny Rathbone: I'd like to second Jayne Bryant.
Jenny Rathbone: What is the Welsh Government's strategy to deliver the decarbonisation of all social housing by 2030?
Jenny Rathbone: I represent a constituency of contrast: some of the wealthiest wards in Wales, alongside some of the poorest super-output areas of deprivation. In one of my poorest wards, the medical centre decided to downgrade the surgery in Pentwyn, disinvesting from the local community, and so patients who are either ill themselves or have children who are ill are having to walk a couple of miles just to...
Jenny Rathbone: Thank you for the good-news story that this is eminently doable, because two thirds of all journeys less than five miles means that most of us can bicycle that short journey, and for those who live in the highlands of my constituency, we now have electric bikes, which we didn't have 50 years ago, so that's another good-news story. I just want to ask you about something slightly different,...
Jenny Rathbone: Thank you very much. I just wanted to pick up on a couple of things. One is that I absolutely agree with the Minister that everybody needs to have a decent place that they can call home, and that is so much more refreshing than the language used by, for example, James Evans, talking about the housing ladder. I was even more astonished to see it in the Shelter Cymru briefing, talking about the...
Jenny Rathbone: I just want to come back to what you said earlier about how the Government can't do it on its own and it's down to every organisation and every individual. I want to home in on something that Mike Hedges asked, which is around new-build housing, but, first of all, I just wanted to understand why we're delaying challenging social landlords to meet energy performance certificate rating A in...
