Julie Morgan: Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer, for calling me to speak in this cross-party debate. I’ve been very pleased to put my name to this motion. I think it is absolutely inexplicable that policing was not devolved in the most recent Wales Bill, and I think that is one of the major reasons why devolution is still unfinished business. I’m sure there will be a time when policing will...
Julie Morgan: I’m sure many Members saw the Conservative party’s targeting of key regional publications all over the UK last Friday, including newspapers in north Wales and the ‘South Wales Echo’, with paid-for front page advertising wraps that gave a misleading impression of political bias to the readers. So, could the leader of the house arrange for a debate on electoral coverage in the print...
Julie Morgan: I thank the First Minister for that response. Although the UK Treasury has guaranteed full funding for all European structural and investment projects that have started before the UK leaves the EU, does the First Minister agree that it’s absolutely crucial that after the UK leaves the EU the total sum of money that has been available in the past for these projects in Wales is added to the...
Julie Morgan: 3. What is the First Minister's assessment of the current state of negotiations with the EU? OAQ(5)0589(FM)
Julie Morgan: Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer, for calling me to speak in this debate on the impact on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller and minority ethnic children of merging former specialist grants into the education improvement grant. I am a member of the committee, so I’ve been able to take part in this inquiry. I’m going to concentrate my remarks on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller education, as...
Julie Morgan: I thank Joyce Watson for that response. My reason for asking this question is prompted by the apparent change of use of the parent and child suite to a meeting room. And when I’m talking, I'm talking about small children now, because I think the school-age children who come here in groups have a fantastic service in this Assembly. But the parent and child suite never really was a parent and...
Julie Morgan: 3. What is the Assembly Commission doing to make the Assembly a more child-friendly place? OAQ(5)0006(AC)
Julie Morgan: I wanted to concentrate my remarks today on type 1 diabetes, which accounts for only 10 per cent of all people with diabetes, but accounts for 96 per cent of all children and young people who have diabetes. I know the Minister, in his introduction, did make very clearly the point that type 1 diabetes is not associated with any of the lifestyle issues that we have discussed here already today....
Julie Morgan: On 10 August, Sea Dragon will moor in Mermaid Quay with its all-female crew sailing round the coast of Britain to collect data on plastic in our coastal waters. I recently met with one of the Welsh members of the crew—I know they’ve met other Assembly Members and have actually been mentioned here in a debate—and they are very keen to highlight the problem of plastic pollution, and to...
Julie Morgan: I thank the First Minister for that response. Does the First Minister support the call from the leader of Cardiff council to the UK Government for Channel 4 to be relocated to Cardiff, in view of the success of the media industry in Cardiff and as part of the consultation that is now going on about the future of Channel 4?
Julie Morgan: 7. What assessment has the First Minister made of the future opportunities for organisations relocating to Wales from the south-east of England? OAQ(5)0568(FM)
Julie Morgan: I thank the Cabinet Secretary for that response. Is he aware of the survey commissioned by the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People that showed that 63 per cent of people in Northern Ireland now support children being legally protected from hitting, smacking, and indeed any type of assault? Is he also aware that Scottish MSP John Finnie is due to lodge a Member Bill in...
Julie Morgan: Can I add my voice to Simon Thomas’s expressions about the Unity project? It was indeed an excellent project and it did work to help bring young Gypsies and Travellers here to the Senedd for the cross-party group on Gypsies and Travellers. They’re uncertain how they’ll be able to come in the future. So, can I ask the Cabinet Secretary if he can think of something that can replace the...
Julie Morgan: 8. What discussions has the Cabinet Secretary had with counterparts in Northern Ireland and Scotland in relation to children’s rights and entitlements? OAQ(5)0136(CC)
Julie Morgan: I welcome the Minister’s statement, particularly on reviewing ‘Extending Entitlement’ and the national youth support service board. And I welcome the commitment you gave to the Chair of the committee that you are supportive of every young person having access to a youth work provision. I’d just like to raise the point that our inquiry was into youth work and, obviously, you have been...
Julie Morgan: I’m very pleased to take part in this very important debate today. It makes absolute sense for the powers in the devolved areas that lie in Europe, such as agriculture and fisheries, to be transferred back to Wales. I think there’s absolutely no case for the UK Government to in any way take back any of those powers, because I think, as the First Minister said in his introduction, that...
Julie Morgan: Last Friday, my constituent, Ronahi Hasan, from Llandaff North, was named as the student journalist of the year at the Wales Media Awards, for a piece she wrote on her homeland of Syria, which was published in the ‘Western Mail’. Ronahi came to this country as a refugee in 2008 with her family, with three children. She had to sell her house to pay people smugglers, and it’s been a very...
Julie Morgan: I thank the First Minister for that response. Does he have any plans to visit the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg to state Wales’s case for future investment by the bank in projects in Wales like Velindre hospital in my constituency and to put the case for the UK to continue as a subscribing partner after we leave the EU?
Julie Morgan: 8. Does the First Minister have any plans to make official visits to European countries in the near future? OAQ(5)0558(FM)
Julie Morgan: I’m not a member of the committee but I’m very pleased to have the opportunity to take part in this debate. I’d like to congratulate the committee on its report, and particularly congratulate Margaret Hutcheson and her friends for highlighting ovarian cancer, and, as Hannah Blythyn said, for managing to get it debated here on the floor of the Chamber. So, I think that’s a great step...
