Neil McEvoy: Diolch, Llywydd. If I were told to make up a story, I don't think I could make up something as unbelievable as this. The UK and Chinese Governments strike a deal with tens of billions of pounds, and as part of the deal they plan to dump 320,000 tonnes of mud from outside a nuclear power station off the coast of Wales without testing it properly. Many of us campaigned for years for this...
Neil McEvoy: We have to save the Bristol channel. Thank you.
Neil McEvoy: I'm shocked to hear the Member talk about scientific evidence. I've just provided you with evidence. Professor Barnham wrote to the Minister on 20 June disclosing the accidents with weapon-grade plutonium. I will repeat it because it's worth repeating—only one kind of testing was done. If you do that testing, you're not going to be able to identify all kinds of plutonium. That's science....
Neil McEvoy: Will you give way?
Neil McEvoy: Minister, will you give way?
Neil McEvoy: We've seen storm Callum and the dreadful destruction, floods everywhere, and tragedy, as mentioned earlier. The bay was flooded. Yet, the disputed area around Roath brook remains perfectly well and not flooded at all, so my question to you would be: do you think that you can spend the £0.5 million earmarked for the Roath brook area better elsewhere, and will you reconsider?
Neil McEvoy: Not where Roath brook is. It's not flooded in decades.
Neil McEvoy: What does the Welsh Government intend to do to address the communication failures between GP surgeries and the Welsh interpreting and translation service? This failure of communication has meant that the deaf community is unable to access vital healthcare due to administrative problems within the NHS in Wales. It's a very serious problem.
Neil McEvoy: Leader of the Chamber, last week, Geraint Davies MP went to the House of Commons and argued in front of the Environmental Audit Committee in Westminster that the mud dredged from outside Hinkley nuclear reactor in Somerset, which was then dumped just outside Cardiff, was not properly tested and was a public health risk. Now, that's the same mud that your Government voted, just two weeks ago,...
Neil McEvoy: And the professor?
Neil McEvoy: For well over a century, people from the Yemen have been coming to our country to make Wales their home. It's a little-known fact that the first mosque in Britain was built on Glynrhondda Street in Cardiff. The Yemenis came as sailors to work on coal boats that stopped at the port of Aden before returning to Cardiff and Newport. My grandfather was one of those Yemeni seamen who settled in...
Neil McEvoy: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. My amendment is very simple. This Assembly for Wales: 'Opposes the use of nuclear power as a means to combat climate change.' I put the amendment forward because I wanted to give every Member of this Assembly a vote for or against nuclear power. I also want the public to be able to hold each one of us for account on nuclear power. I've always been anti-nuclear, but the...
Neil McEvoy: Many people in Wales, especially in my region, are very worried, very concerned and, in some cases, devastated by what is happening to family members in the Yemen with the conflict, and family members literally being bombed out of existence. What I'd like today is a statement from the Government about what you could do to help the Welsh Yemeni community in terms of mental health support for...
Neil McEvoy: Would you give way, Gareth?
Neil McEvoy: Would the Member give way?
Neil McEvoy: There are some data gaps identified in the report. I think the Government needs to meet the call for 'Talk to me', and to develop improvements to reduce suicide, particularly for men, because the biggest killer of men under 45 in Wales is in fact suicide. There are huge gaps also in data and research for mental health provision amongst ethnic minorities. I'll just give you one example. There...
Neil McEvoy: Last Friday, I was in Alice Street mosque in Butetown, speaking after Friday prayers. There's a Yemeni centre there and an established Yemeni community going back centuries. People told me how proud they are to have somebody with an Arab Yemeni background being elected to this Assembly for the first time. It was more than disappointing to find out that, at the other end of the country, in...
Neil McEvoy: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. We don't leave soldiers behind on the battlefields and we shouldn't leave them behind when they come home. My amendment tonight is a simple one to bring about a no-soldier-left-behind Act to guarantee quality housing and healthcare for veterans who have seen active service. Many soldiers serve and go through trauma. Some are injured and some, unfortunately, do not...
Neil McEvoy: Diolch, Llywydd. First of all, this is not a Muslim or a Jewish issue. It's got nothing to do with religious practice, so I don't really see the relevance of that being mentioned earlier. This is a matter of animal welfare. The amendment I've introduced is a simple one: it's to ban third-party puppy sales, to end unethical puppy farming. Intensive breeding of dogs can mean hundreds of...
Neil McEvoy: Will the First Minister provide an update on additional support the Welsh Government is providing to the Welsh Yemeni community as a result of the ongoing war in Yemen?
