Joyce Watson: Okay. Thank you.
Joyce Watson: I’d like now to call on the Minister for Science and Skills, Julie James.
Joyce Watson: Thank you. I’m going to call Llyr Gruffydd, spokesperson for Plaid Cymru.
Joyce Watson: Thank you. We are now halfway through the allocated time, and we’ve got three speakers. I call Dawn Bowden.
Joyce Watson: I would never be cross with you. I’d now like to call Mohammad Asghar, spokesperson for the Conservatives.
Joyce Watson: And the final speaker in this debate will be Jenny Rathbone.
Joyce Watson: Thank you very much.
Joyce Watson: We’ll now move on to agenda item 10, to debate the ‘Together for Mental Health’ delivery plan, and I call on the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport to move the motion—Vaughan Gething.
Joyce Watson: 6. Will the Welsh Government make a statement on GP recruitment in Powys? OAQ(5)0114(FM)
Joyce Watson: I thank you for that statement, First Minister, but on Friday I attended a public health meeting in Ystradgynlais and one of the big challenges that they were facing was GP recruitment, particularly in the Coelbren surgery. I welcome what you have just said in terms of your plans to train and recruit more GPs. I look forward, First Minister, to receiving an update on how those plans are going...
Joyce Watson: Minister, I’m going to make my statement short and sharp and to the point. As you know, I live in Pembrokeshire and I have read many case reviews, and some of them pretty tragic, from that authority. My question to you is this—it’s sharp and it’s pointed—have you looked at how they dealt with this case, have you looked at any learning that has come out of it? Because I can think...
Joyce Watson: I was also busy meeting health forums in the summer, First Minister, and I did ask a question last July, where you quite clearly answered me in regard to the Dulais valley that you’re bringing forward very shortly proposals for a national and an international campaign to market Wales and the NHS as an attractive place to work, and that that work would include recruitment, training and...
Joyce Watson: Cabinet Secretary, I did speak with the chair of Hywel Dda by telephone immediately after you issued your statement. What I took from that conversation was that the health board very much welcomes the support that the Welsh Government will now be able to provide it. I think we need to put on record that this isn’t the Welsh Government bailing out, and it isn’t the Welsh Government...
Joyce Watson: What is the Minister's assessment of the Auditor General for Wales's July 2016 report on coastal flood and erosion risk management in Wales?
Joyce Watson: Cabinet Secretary, in June, I was honoured to be appointed Wales Environment Link’s species champion for the bottle-nosed dolphin. On Friday, weather permitting—who knows—I will visit Cardigan bay’s special area of conservation. You will know that that bay is home to semi-resident populations and it’s a particularly important nursery ground for females and their calves. So, my...
Joyce Watson: First Minister, I was delighted to hear on Monday that Hywel Dda Local Health Board has been shortlisted for the highly respected ‘Health Service Journal’ award 2016 in the primary care innovation category for its innovation in community pharmacy triage and treat service, of which there are 17 pharmacies providing that service across Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion, with...
Joyce Watson: Would you take an intervention?
Joyce Watson: What I’d like to do, and I recognise that you’ve had your experiences, is ask you: when you were in the secondary school and they were setting you up with apprenticeships, which I wholeheartedly support, were they actually encouraging you also to become the teachers of those apprenticeships?
Joyce Watson: I call on Julie Morgan to make her contribution.
Joyce Watson: I now call on Rhianon Passmore to make her contribution.
