Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: So, thank you very much, and I hope people will support these new ideas. Thank you.
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: John Griffiths, diolch yn fawr. We're very keen to get young people in particular back to outdoor activities. There is guidance already in terms of organised activities, in terms of how parents can safely watch children. I'm very keen that we as a Cabinet look at the issue of parkruns. Of course, that will be something that we will be taking into account in terms of the 21-day review. We, of...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you very much, Rhun, and I look forward to working with you as we progress in terms of the pandemic, but also post-pandemic. We will have a great deal of work to do in terms of catching up. I would want to commit to ensure that we do make announcements in the Senedd, wherever possible. I'm very eager to be transparent. I think we make better policy when we are transparent. I hope...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you very much, and thank you for those comments. If I could start by responding to Russell George.
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Congratulations on your new role as shadow health Minister. I understand that we will be speaking to each other often in future, so I look forward to that. On business support, certainly I think that we should be very proud of the fact that we have managed to get over £1.9 billion into business accounts over the past 12 months. So, a lot of this has been delivered by local...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: The Welsh Government was consistently clear in how we were to release restrictions following lockdown and our top priority was always to enable children to return to face-to-face learning. The last Senedd approved previous amendments to the regulations that began the cautious, step-by-step move to alert level 3. Amendment regulations numbers 6, 7, 8, and 9, which are before us today,...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you very much, Llywydd. I move the motions before us this afternoon. The coronavirus control plan was published on 14 December 2020. It notes four alert levels that correspond to risk levels, including the necessary measures at each alert level to control the spread of the virus. The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) Regulations 2020 came into force on 20...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: There is a range of support in place to help people who suffer from anxiety and panic attacks. These include Welsh Government-funded resources such as Reading Well Wales, online cognitive behavioural therapy and our community advice and listening line helpline. A range of support is also available from our voluntary sector partners.
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Diolch yn fawr, John. Certainly, I know your commitment to Newport and to this important issue is something that is worth underlining. I felt very privileged to be able to speak to some people in the community of Newport last week to discuss this very issue of mental health, so thank you for organising that. Certainly, this is one of the things that I was focused on before I became Minister...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Partnership working is a fundamental part of our 'Together for Mental Health' strategy. It's underpinned by national and local arrangements with a range of partners, including NHS, public health, local authorities, police, and the voluntary sector, as part of the multi-agency approach needed to improve mental health.
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you very much, Suzy, and you really are a model of what we're trying to deliver with the Welsh language strategy, and you're someone who has developed confidence in your use of the Welsh language, and I thank you for contributing not just in terms of learning and practising your Welsh, but also speaking Welsh to your children, and they are also helping us to reach 1 million Welsh...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you very much, Helen Mary, and certainly we're aware of the great work that the mentrau iaith have done in recent years. One of the things that we've done in the pandemic is to ensure that we've had a community audit to see what the impact has been on the Welsh language from the pandemic, because a lot of groups have not been able to meet during this period, and the mentrau iaith...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you very much, Helen. The Welsh Government are allocating £1.2 million to the mentrau iaith in mid and west Wales in 2021-22 to promote and facilitate use of Welsh in the community. We are also implementing recommendations of a community audit to strengthen the Welsh language across the communities of Wales following COVID.
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Yes, absolutely, David. I would agree with you that that makes absolute sense, that some of that money should be directed to those mental health charities. So, I would support you in that.
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thanks very much once again, David.
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thanks very much for everything you have done for us in Wales as well.
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Anti-Tory party, which is a good time for you to cut out, there, David.
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Absolutely, David, and can I tell you that one of the joys of being in this job has been for me meeting regularly with those third sector organisations who do such a terrific job on the front line in our communities, and Mind and Hafal are two of those organisations that have made a really significant contribution? One of the key things for me is that we have to make sure that we're not just...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you very much, Dafydd, for everything you've done for us in the Senedd, but also for our nation.
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: David, thank you very much for your question on young people as well. Of course, it is crucial that young people take their mental health seriously. I'm really pleased, actually, that so many of them are taking this seriously now. They seem to be talking about it a lot more. I think that it is a really, really difficult time for young people. Many of them have not had access to their friends...
