Rhun ap Iorwerth: Will you take an intervention? I said the complete opposite, actually.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: I'm just making the point that I don't drink when I'm down in the Assembly, so, you know—.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Will you take an intervention?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Do you understand that this piece of legislation isn't really aimed at getting alcoholics to stop drinking? Alcoholics will, you're quite right, seek alcohol out in any way they can. Efforts need to be made—more efforts—from Government to help alcoholics come off alcohol, but we are talking here about hazardous drinkers, who can be persuaded through price incentives to perhaps behave in...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: 'Pricing and price related promotions are among the most important marketing tools employed by tobacco companies. Future tobacco control efforts that aim to raise prices and limit price related marketing efforts are likely to be important in achieving reductions in tobacco use'.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: The reason that conclusion doesn’t surprise us is that we know instinctively now that smoking tobacco is bad for your health and that an increase in the price is clearly a useful tool in the challenge of encouraging more people to give up tobacco. What we have here, if truth be told, is the beginning of a real debate on how we can use price and financial incentives to influence how much...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you, Llywydd, and I formally move the amendment. I’m pleased to participate in this debate, because I do think it’s an opportunity for us to explain some of the principles at the heart of what we are discussing. I was reading an interesting article earlier today on the relationship between the price of tobacco in the US and smoking habits and on the population there. It takes us...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: What written assurances have you had?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: We are facing a shortage of housing, but, simultaneously, there are parts of Wales, including my constituency, where a substantial number of homes are second homes or holiday homes. The figure is one in 10 of all homes on the whole of Anglesey, and over 40 per cent of the homes in Rhosneigr, for example, are vacant or are holiday homes. I can refer you to a recent development, which would...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: 1. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on how planning policy considers the local market in permitting housing developments? OAQ52146
Rhun ap Iorwerth: The report highlights that some women, having described their symptoms, were dismissed by medical professionals who had wrongly ascribed symptoms to normal post-operative pain, perhaps. Many women felt they were patronised as a result of that, describing their battles, frankly, to be taken seriously. And this isn't the first time that we've seen this kind of thing; we remember, back in the...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: May I thank the Cabinet Secretary for the statement? And I thank those women as well who showed such bravery and commitment in working tirelessly, as you said, to underline this issue. And, yes, women have suffered complications that have changed their lives. I welcome elements in the report relating to several elements of this: the need to work proactively on the preventative aspect to...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you for your statement today, Cabinet Secretary, but you've read, I'm sure, the statement issued by the Tawel Fan families group in response to the HASCAS report's publication: 'we cannot and will not accept the findings', they say. They say that what they've read in this report doesn't stack up compared with all else that has gone before it—the experiences of the families...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Diolch yn fawr iawn. I'll begin on that point: we have come a long way. It's an argument that Mick Antoniw also made, and certainly when it comes to clause 11, we certainly started off in a very dodgy station on this particular journey, and there's no doubt that as the journey moved on, we moved to a better place. But I cannot feel any other way than to see that the Government has decided...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Can I have a point of order? A point of order under Standing Order 13.9. I heard an accusation made a few minutes ago that there had been behaviour tantamount to racism in this Chamber. Now, we don't know who that is targeted at, but it tars all of us. Could we have a judgment from the Llywydd on that, please?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you for that response. The record will show, of course, that the Assembly didn’t actually cede to the threat of legal challenge at that time, and indeed that the Government didn’t proceed with launching that legal challenge. The Government argued, and you argued at the time, that a dangerous precedent would be established here. But the truth is that there is plenty of precedent in...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: 4. What legal advice has the Counsel General provided to the Welsh Government regarding the debate on the Permanent Secretary's inquiry report held on Wednesday 18 April 2018? OAQ52087
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Another sign of the pressure on primary care was when those figures last week showed the number of GPs working full-time in our primary care surgeries in Wales hitting a low of more than 10 years. And, I'm sorry, but I'm not as relaxed as you are about that. You said again today, as we've heard from Government in the past, 'Don't worry about the number of full-time GPs; we've got plenty of...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you for giving way. I'm a republican myself, but as a monarchist, would you not recognise that perhaps the person most embarrassed by all of this is the Prince of Wales?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Will you take an intervention?
