Jane Dodds: Thank you so much. It was really great to hear you saying 'more homes, less people homeless', but I'm just really concerned about the Conservative position in relation to selling off our social housing. It's something I believe your party still supports. I just wondered if you could comment on that. Is that something you believe in—taking the social housing stock from local authorities and...
Jane Dodds: I'd also like to join with many others in thanking the former children's commissioner, Dr Sally Holland, for her leadership as the commissioner in promoting and safeguarding the rights of children and young people in Wales. As chair of the cross-party group on children and families and children in our care, I just want to use my brief time to focus on children and young people who are looked...
Jane Dodds: Good afternoon, First Minister. As well as paying tribute to the health workers and those in our health professions who deal with cancer, there is also a range of charities who meet the needs of everybody suffering from cancer, and that includes the families of those suffering from cancer. Many of those have mental health issues, and people want to talk, not just the cancer sufferer, but...
Jane Dodds: Good afternoon, Trefnydd. The particular financial situation at the moment means that those who are the poorest in our society are going to be particularly hard hit and those who are currently in debt are going to suffer particular problems. This was highlighted in an online story by the BBC that focused on the terrible case of a single mother who worked as a carer. Julie spoke of the shame...
Jane Dodds: Good afternoon, Minister. This sounds amazing. Thank you so much for the statement—a real, long-term vision of where we see our energy going, when it's so tempting for political parties to just look at the short term. So, thank you so much. Just two really quick points, if I may. Just looking at small renewable community energy projects, just trying to understand how this new renewable...
Jane Dodds: Good afternoon, Minister. On Thursday last week, I was actually on a stall with the Brecon, Hay and Talgarth refugee support group, and I met a refugee there, a young woman, who has three children, the youngest of whom was actually born in a bomb shelter in Kyiv. She's an amazingly entrepreneurial person and is trying to set up a business making jewellery. But she wanted me to pass on her...
Jane Dodds: May I too thank Peredur for raising this issue?
Jane Dodds: Good afternoon, Minister. Since the pandemic, many of our care workers have been struggling to make ends meet, and I'm sure many of us have heard about the situation that both those receiving care and those giving care are in. In July, the new administration of Powys County Council—a group of political parties: Liberal Democrat, Labour and Green; and we all need to work together on this as...
Jane Dodds: Good afternoon, Minister. I must declare an interest. As you know, I own a rescue greyhound myself—10-year-old Arthur, who we've had for just over two years now. Arthur could not be rehomed because of his high levels of anxiety. Arthur came to us with significant injuries; he has a neck injury from falling at the racetrack, and we are now seeing, sadly, his back legs giving way, which means...
Jane Dodds: I stand here as someone with a very open mind. I'll be honest, I haven't made a decision on how I'm going to vote, and I do understand that my vote may mean that this continues or doesn't today. So, I'm standing here giving some views. On the one hand, thank you, Sam, for doing this. I like the universality of it. I like the fact that it appeals to everybody, rich or poor, and that there's no...
Jane Dodds: Good afternoon, Minister, hope you're well. I just wanted to raise the issue of affordable housing within rural areas. We've heard from Caerphilly, we've heard about the issues around shop frontage as well. The region I represent, in mid and west Wales, as many of us do here, is particularly affected by the lack of affordable properties, and, as you'll know, a further challenge is that local...
Jane Dodds: Thank you to Plaid Cymru for bringing this debate forward, and thank you to Delyth for opening the debate.
Jane Dodds: I just want to focus very briefly on one aspect. There's just so much in this, isn't there, and it's so important that we look at this issue. But I just wanted to look at food and farming. The debate that we're having is so important in the light of the development of the agricultural Bill for Wales, at the heart of which we want to see sustainable food production. We're pleased to see that...
Jane Dodds: Thank you, once again, to Plaid Cymru; it's a very important debate. Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd.
Jane Dodds: Good afternoon, First Minister. Lovely to have you back. Croeso yn ôl. I just wanted to focus in on social care. As we know, our local authorities across Wales are going to be struggling with their budgets going forward, in relation to funding social care—our most vulnerable people. That would help our health services as well. It's lovely to hear from you about the points that you have...
Jane Dodds: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd, and good afternoon, Minister. I would associate my remarks with Mabon ap Gwynfor and also with Ken Skates. You know, on tourism, we just cannot stand still. We have a real crisis in some of our communities. Llangollen, we've heard about, and Dwyfor Meirionnydd as well. We really do need to come up to the twenty-first century in terms of the way that we approach...
Jane Dodds: Good afternoon again, Minister. I want to put on record my support to the Welsh team. I hope they come back with the world cup. Wouldn't that just be amazing? I hope we would see them first here in the Senedd. But you will know that the Welsh Liberal Democrats and the Liberal Democrats across the UK condemn Ministers going from Wales to the Qatari world cup, and I hope maybe Plaid Cymru would...
Jane Dodds: Good afternoon, Minister, and thank you so much for your statement. It really shows, I think, a really comprehensive approach to water quality. Thank you to you and your team in its production. I'm a resident of Hay-on-Wye, as many of you will know, and it's really important to me that rivers, particularly the River Wye—. That we tackle river pollution. I swim in the river every summer. I...
Jane Dodds: Good afternoon, Minister. I want to ask about teeth, and particularly the teeth of people in mid Wales. There are around 15,000 people waiting for an NHS dentist across Wales—that means that a wait of around two years for people to get an NHS dentist is the case. I do appreciate that there are problems and issues around waiting lists, and I've raised the issue a few times around the teeth...
Jane Dodds: I thank the Conservatives for bringing this debate here today. I have a very brief period of time, but we do know that, over five years ago, Grenfell happened, with 72 people dying in that. And in the initial findings from the inquiry, only from six days ago, Richard Millett, the counsel to the inquiry, said, 'Every single death was avoidable'. The final report, as we know, is due in October...
