Julie Morgan: 6. What is the Welsh Government doing to ensure that there is a workforce with the appropriate skills in Wales? OAQ(5)0206(FM)
Julie Morgan: What measures are being put in place to improve neonatal care in Wales?
Julie Morgan: What progress has been made on setting up a development bank for Wales?
Julie Morgan: I thank the First Minister for that reply. I’m sure the First Minister is aware of the reports from NSPCC Cymru last week that they have seen a big rise in the number of adults calling them worried about children suffering from or witnessing physical and emotional domestic abuse. The number of the calls to the NSPCC, I believe, has gone up 63 per cent over the last six years. What further...
Julie Morgan: 6. What plans does the Welsh Government have to reduce the prevalence of domestic abuse in Wales? OAQ(5)0186(FM)
Julie Morgan: Will you give way?
Julie Morgan: There were lots of complaints, then, that it was too long. [Laughter.]
Julie Morgan: This is a headline document. Obviously, all that discussion and debate and detail will take place, and what I think we should be doing today is addressing the merits of what’s in that document. I was actually speaking to a constituent this morning who was saying that there was a very high-quality nursery in Cardiff North that she wanted her child to go to, but the child couldn’t go there...
Julie Morgan: I’m very pleased to speak in this debate to support the Government’s programme. I think the opposition parties have protested a bit too much this afternoon and protested a bit too much about the size of the document, which I don’t really see is the key issue—rather it is the long-term plans and I’m very pleased to speak in support of those plans today. Obviously, we are in...
Julie Morgan: In Whitchurch, we’ve got a company called Schools Into Europe, and I’ve been told by the director there that there has been a drop-off in the number of schools undertaking trips abroad, which he does think is partly due to the confusion over travel safety guidance, and schools adopting their own ad hoc rules as to whether it’s safe to travel or not. So, following up to her answer to the...
Julie Morgan: Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. I would also like to congratulate all our Welsh athletes and I’m looking forward to the event on Thursday when we welcome them to the Senedd. They did perform absolutely outstandingly in Rio. Would the Cabinet Secretary agree that it’s vital that there are good sporting facilities available for young people to train? I’m sure he’s aware...
Julie Morgan: Could we have a debate on setting up the constitutional convention that’s long been proposed by the First Minister? Now that we are going to possibly lose 11 MPs in Wales when the numbers go down from 40 to 29, and, with the vote to leave the EU, it’s likely we will lose four MEPs, isn’t now the ideal time to acknowledge that there are too few Assembly Members to do the job properly...
Julie Morgan: Thank you very much, acting Presiding Officer. I’d like to congratulate Vikki Howells on choosing such a vitally important subject for this debate. I just wanted to refer to a visit I made to Denmark some years ago, with a delegation, looking at education provision. I visited a preschool, such as she referred to in Sweden, I think, for two and three-year-olds. The two and three-year-olds...
Julie Morgan: What discussions has the Minister had about reviewing the Barnett formula?
Julie Morgan: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Making Wales active and making the active travel Act a reality is one of the key tasks for the Welsh Government in this next term, and we’ve already covered today the statistics and the consequences and the health issues that we have to address here in Wales. It’s good to hear that all the existing routes maps have been completed by the local...
Julie Morgan: I welcome the points made in the statement by the Cabinet Secretary, and I think they will certainly help the situation. During the recess, I visited North Cardiff Medical Centre, and was very impressed with the efforts that they were making there to try to treat the whole patient to try to avoid unnecessary medical treatment and try to avoid admission to hospital. I was also very impressed...
Julie Morgan: I think many parents think that the defence of reasonable punishment has already been abolished, but would the Minister agree that in preparation for the forthcoming legislation, it’s very important to communicate with parents and with families, and can he tell us how he’s going to do that?
Julie Morgan: The greening of the urban environment, I think, is very important for the health and emotional well-being of residents, and I wondered if the Cabinet Secretary was aware of the community garden movement in New York. I saw some of the community gardens in the lower east side over the recess and it was absolutely staggering how every tiny little bit of spare land was converted to vegetable...
Julie Morgan: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Very swiftly, because I know we’ve got very little time, I want to congratulate all our women and men sportspeople who’ve made us so proud. I’m very pleased that the Cabinet Secretary is emphasising grass-roots and community sport, and can he assure me that any money that is given from the Welsh Government will be used equally to benefit women and...
Julie Morgan: During the recess, I was very pleased to have a training session for myself and my staff on becoming dementia friends, which was led by the Alzheimer’s Society, and I think we all found it a very rewarding occasion. Obviously, how we can help people with dementia is one of the major challenges that we face, and it’s particularly important for social care. So, I wondered if, at some point,...