Jenny Rathbone: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and thank you, Julie Morgan, for proposing this difficult debate, and also for showing the video, because I think the video very clearly demonstrates that most people do not know what FGM is. Therefore, it's very important that we articulate what FGM is so that the public at large is aware of this in order to gather support for stamping it out. I'd just...
Jenny Rathbone: I'm delighted to hear that you've mentioned the exemplary design guidance that the Welsh Government issued along with the Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013, because obviously it's been lauded by the Westminster Government as fit for purpose across Britain. And so we've got this excellent design guidance, but what monitoring has the Welsh Government done of how much attention local authorities...
Jenny Rathbone: I don't think I'll ever forget the first time I met a 10-year old who was obviously drunk. His breath smelt strongly of alcohol and his behaviour indicated that he—. His risk taking and cockiness was a clear sign of his inebriation. I don't think that minimum alcohol pricing is going to be of assistance to a child like this, because they're never going to be able to actually buy the alcohol...
Jenny Rathbone: Leader of the house, I wondered whether we could have a debate in Government time about what we can do to increase breastfeeding in Wales. The UK has the worst breastfeeding rates in the world, and that puts Wales, I'm afraid, in a very poor position. We know that 71 per cent of mothers start breastfeeding, compared with 83 per cent in England, but it's devastating to know that only 17 per...
Jenny Rathbone: Carl Sargeant would've been disappointed had David Melding not put forward this amendment. I'm sure that he respected David's position completely, whilst he did not agree with it. And, what he said at the time was, 'I accept the Member's points regarding the need to build more houses, but while we're building them, we are still haemorrhaging them in terms of the right to buy and that cannot...
Jenny Rathbone: I absolutely agree with what Siân Gwenllian has just said. It seems to me that it's perfectly possible for the Assembly to reverse this Act were the situation to change. But I do not think there's anything innovative about what David Melding is proposing. Had you come forward with a proposal to allow a local authority that has no housing waiting list and that is having difficulty filling...
Jenny Rathbone: Unlike Mark Reckless, I'm not looking forward to the world of chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef, so I hope that we continue to have the high quality of food standards that we currently enjoy. The messages coming from the British Ports Authority if we were to leave the customs union are not very optimistic, in the sense that whilst we currently have a free passport of goods to and from...
Jenny Rathbone: There's a danger that this apparent consensus gives the impression that this is going to be easy, but I'd like to remind you that the car lobby is really powerful, and if we are going to do anything about this, we are going to have to face down the car lobby. I very much welcome the vigour—and, I hope, rigour—with which the new environment Minister is pursuing this important issue, and we...
Jenny Rathbone: As a result of this delay in the transfer of powers, is it the case that the UK Government could impose fracking on Wales, even though this could be against the wishes of the population?
Jenny Rathbone: Thank you very much for introducing these ideas. I think there's a lot of merit to them. Would you agree that the health service, above all, does need to have much better citizen participation? Just because the health service is free at the point of need doesn't mean that we should be getting people going to the doctor because they've got a sore throat. We really do need to get people to...
Jenny Rathbone: I don't think we need a new superprison, like we've got at Berwyn—certainly not before we've seen how Berwyn performs in terms of its ability to reduce recidivism. At the moment, it looks horrendous: over 2,000 people in three blocks, and units of 88 men together. This is not the sort of— . It's barracks accommodation and I can't see how that is going to do anything—
Jenny Rathbone: I absolutely concede that I haven't been to Berwyn, but it's far too soon for us to know how it's going to perform, as it only opened at the beginning of this year. I certainly don't think we should be jumping into another superprison. We have an appalling record in terms of recidivism and at the moment we lock people up to make them into more successful criminals, particularly those on short...
Jenny Rathbone: Cabinet Secretary, I do hope that the appraisal guidance to be published tomorrow isn't just going to be a revisit because it seems to me that, after 10 years, we really do need a complete rewrite of the transport strategy. Because, one of the key goals of the 2008 strategy was that there would be modal shift to public transport: park and ride, walking and cycling. We simply haven't seen...
Jenny Rathbone: 7. What is the Welsh Government doing to encourage the shift in resources from secondary to primary health care? OAQ51452
Jenny Rathbone: The money for delivering a much more appropriate primary healthcare estate is much appreciated, but I want to focus my question today on the delivery of services. I was particularly interested to read a report from The King's Fund on the success of Canterbury in New Zealand in limiting the rise and rise in demand for emergency services because of the investment in primary care services. This...
Jenny Rathbone: The car may need to be king in rural areas, but in inner city urban areas like Cardiff public transport has to be the default option for those unwilling or unable to walk or cycle. People in Cardiff are starting to wear face masks like they do in Beijing. This is the consequence of the do-nothing approach to 80,000 people commuting into Cardiff and Newport from neighbouring authorities by...
Jenny Rathbone: Yes, I am winding up—that the well-being of future generation Act demands and the carbon reduction targets that the environment Act requires. In Cardiff city region, that means the metro.
Jenny Rathbone: Can you not accept that the city region concept in south Wales is about connecting different communities, not about forcing everybody to move into Cardiff? That would be the nightmare scenario.
Jenny Rathbone: What is the Welsh Government's strategy for tackling air pollution in Cardiff?
Jenny Rathbone: Whatever we have or haven't done in the past, I think this report provides us with an excellent framework for getting on with doing the things we need to do now. I think in particular I'd like to argue that the innovative housing programme started by Carl Sargeant is a model for achieving all three of the report's priorities for good-quality jobs and the skills to do them, better public...
