Suzy Davies: I think the location in Carmarthen is likely to stimulate the use of the Welsh language within the economy, as it would wherever it’s situated in Wales. But, of course, this particular county has faced some fragility in the robustness of its growth of the Welsh language and has had some difficulties with its Welsh in education statutory plans in the past. So, the location of Yr Egin in this...
Suzy Davies: I call on the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government, Mark Drakeford.
Suzy Davies: Can you bring your contribution to an end now, please?
Suzy Davies: It's a bit long for an intervention, Mr David.
Suzy Davies: The Member will have the opportunity to address this when he sums up at the end of the debate.
Suzy Davies: Sit down. Sit down, please.
Suzy Davies: I have selected the six amendments to the motion. If amendment 1 is agreed, amendment 2 will be deselected. If amendment 3 is agreed, amendment 4 will be deselected. I call on the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government to formally move amendments 1 and 2 tabled in the name of Jane Hutt.
Suzy Davies: Thank you. I call on Janet Finch-Saunders to move amendments 2, 3, 5 and 6 tabled in the name of Paul Davies.
Suzy Davies: Carry on, please.
Suzy Davies: Can we please have no more interventions from a seated position? Thank you.
Suzy Davies: Not from a sitting position.
Suzy Davies: Could the Member please continue with his contribution? Thank you.
Suzy Davies: We always try and ensure that anyone who wishes to make an intervention does it from a standing position, but we do invite lively debate here as well. I just hope that nobody here oversteps the mark in future.
Suzy Davies: Last month, the City and County of Swansea council settled a claim brought by 11 of its occupational therapists that they were being paid less than their equivalents in the NHS. Unison said that occupational therapists right across Welsh local government, not only in Swansea, suffer lower pay and poorer access to professional development opportunities than their colleagues in the health...
Suzy Davies: I wonder if I could ask for a statement from the health Secretary, or possibly from the Minister for public health, about the provision of publicly accessible defibrillators in Wales. In particular, I’d like know about Wales’s response to the European Restart A Heart Day initiative and what support and advice Welsh Government has been giving to community councils about the options for...
Suzy Davies: I just wonder if you can clarify this, because I don’t think you actually answered the question that Bethan Jenkins put to you in a way that I understood. Are these agency staff or not? Because David Rees seems to suggest they’re not. In your response to us originally, you suggested that they are. They may be agency staff, but they may be former Tata employees. Can you clarify that? If...
Suzy Davies: What’s that got to do with my question?
Suzy Davies: I thank Huw Irranca-Davies for his question, because I must admit, I’m a little bit sceptical about the attention that my region has been given in the course of all this—even that non-specific third phase that we’re talking about, in a number of years to come. There’s talk about things like a fast bus for Porthcawl, rather than anything more integrated. My constituents, including...
Suzy Davies: Diolch, Lywydd. Thank you to everyone who’s taken part in the debate today. Perhaps I can offer my thanks also to the older people’s commissioner to be recorded as well. Personally, I’m still a little bit baffled by the thought that policy makers consider me to be an older person, and I face the temptation that perhaps we should ask for that threshold to be moved a little further north,...
Suzy Davies: Diolch yn fawr. Thank you very much, Simon Thomas and Jenny Rathbone. I’ll start with Jenny Rathbone’s question, if I may. What I can’t give you off the top of my head is the specific amount that we spend on the contract. It is actually in the report, which, of course, I haven’t brought with me. But I can certainly make sure that you get a note on that immediately. In terms of the...
