Rhun ap Iorwerth: I was very pleased to co-submit this debate today. It's clear to me and to other Members, as we've already heard, that there is far more that needs to be done in order to assist the high number of children and young people who do suffer migraine regularly in Wales. It's a huge problem that's been ignored for too long, if we're honest, and, too often, it is treated like any other short-term...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: I draw attention to my declaration of interest in terms of property ownership. The Minister will be aware of the attention that I've paid recently to the tenants who told us that their landlord in the Bodorgan estate has asked them to leave their homes, to turn them into holiday accommodation. My concern here is for the individuals and families who face losing their homes, but I'm also...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: 'I do hope you don't mind me contacting you. I'm looking for a property in your area and wondered if you might be interested in selling or renting your property long term.'
Rhun ap Iorwerth: A company called Coastal Holidays was responsible for sending that letter—not a local tourism company, I have to say, but a company from Warwick, according to their website. Very importantly, it's a company that is trying purposefully to take properties out of the local housing stock, disenfranchising people in the community from being able to buy those houses and driving prices up. The...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you to the Minister for the statement this afternoon. I agree, generally speaking, with the plan as outlined by the Minister today. The Minister is right in saying, of course, that COVID has not left us; it is still casting a shadow, and that shadow is getting darker. And there's a concern too that flu could take hold this winter in a way that it hasn't done for a number of years. I am...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: I thank the Deputy Minister for her statement this afternoon. I don't think we can over-emphasise the significance of this point in time in terms of the attention we give to mental health. It has been positive to have the 'Together for Mental Health' strategy to give us a focus on the work that needs to be done, to understand the problems that we face in terms of mental health and well-being...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: On 20 September, the First Minister said that the figures and data of the Wales Air Ambulance Charity are behind the plans to close its two sites in Welshpool and Caernarfon and to move the helicopters to one site. I and other Members have written to him to state that it's the Government figures that are behind the emergency medical retrieval and transfer service figures in the health...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: 'has been conducted by our medical partners, the Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service (EMRTS)'.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Now, because of uncertainty regarding the exact basis for these data, nor, indeed, what exactly the data are telling us, is the Minister willing to commission an independent review of those data and, specifically, to have the review consider the likely impact of the change on those areas that are hardest to reach by road and that are further from the emergency care centers—places such as...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: It's your data.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: That is absolute nonsense.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: My concern is that the most rural areas are going to lose out because the ambulance will go after the patient number targets that can be reached by the helicopter without properly considering the likelihood that those could be reached quite quickly by road anyway in populated areas. I'd like to draw the Minister's attention to the report, 'Service Evaluation of the Emergency Medical Retrieval...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: 'Despite the service substantially improving equity overall, there remained residual inequity in provision in the North West, and expansion into this area was to be considered.' In a written statement in April this year, responding to that report, the Minister was full of praise about—and I quote—'the positive findings' of the report. Now, I'm sure that the same arguments could be made...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. Thank you to my fellow members of the committee, and thank you to the researchers and the clerking team. This is a very important report. We're getting to the heart of issues that are holding our health service back at the moment. We're talking about patient flow through the health service. If there isn't that easy flow through the system, you have a...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: What assessment has the Welsh Government made of the NHS's success in meeting its waiting list targets?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: I would like an urgent statement from the economy Minister after news that AMG Alpoco in Holyhead has let its staff know that 28 jobs are to be lost there by the end of November. The letter given to staff yesterday says that increased costs, including energy costs, are behind the decision by the company to restructure. This amounts to more than half the workforce at the Holyhead plant....
Rhun ap Iorwerth: 8. What support is the Welsh Government providing to businesses in light of inflation and rising energy costs? OQ58577
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you very much for that response. I asked yesterday for a statement following the news that 28 jobs are in the balance in AMG Alpoco in Holyead; I've written to the Minister about that issue again today. An increase in costs, and energy costs in particular, is driving this restructuring, but, of course, Alpoco are not alone on this. Plas Farm, an ice cream and frozen yoghurt company in...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: I would like to make a few points on marine wind energy developments in the future with particular reference to recommendation 11, which asks for clarity as to what steps the Welsh Government would take to streamline the process for developing the Celtic sea renewable energy projects in future years. I congratulate the committee for the work that’s gone into this report, and which touches...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: She wants the money to stay in the—[Inaudible.]
