Suzy Davies: That’s useful to know. That’s taking some evidence, but we haven’t gone quite the full way to an assessment of the likely impact on district nurses, which I think is perhaps something you may want to consider. But you did allude then to the staffing needs of any given nursing home, and the make-up of any team in a nursing home is critical to the success of the care it offers. The...
Suzy Davies: You just mentioned Western Bay there, and I’m sure you’re aware that the Swansea bay city deal is very well placed to nurture companies who want to actually develop these tech interventions for reablement and other social care, particularly at home. The opportunity has already been spotted. I’m just wondering, then, what conversations you might have had with the Cabinet Secretary for...
Suzy Davies: Obviously, this is bad news, particularly as there’s an escalation of the likelihood of production ending there. I’ve heard in your answers today and, to be fair, in the last six months, or even longer, that Ford and the auto industry is undergoing rapid change and that they continue to look for other high-tech opportunities for Bridgend. We’ve heard today that you’re very pleased...
Suzy Davies: I agree with those comments too—I sympathise. Yr wythnos diwethaf, cafodd cais Abertawe i ddod yn Ddinas Diwylliant y DU ar gyfer 2021 ei gyflwyno o’r diwedd. Mae mwy i Abertawe na’i diwylliant o’r gorffennol, er na ddylem anwybyddu etifeddiaeth Dylan Thomas, na Kingsley Amis, Peter Ham, Ceri Richards, ac wrth gwrs, seren yr wythnos hon, Vernon Watkins, na’r ffaith ei bod yn 160...
Suzy Davies: May I also thank everyone who was involved with this inquiry, including our witnesses and staff? The Minister had already given some indications about his vision for a bilingual Wales, and that had created a level of consensus, as we know; so, we believed that it was useful to test that consensus by asking some preliminary questions in order to steer the Minister in the direction of some of...
Suzy Davies: Will the First Minister make a statement on how the Welsh Government conducts its consultation processes?
Suzy Davies: Just to develop this question of the regional partnership and the relationship between the pooled budgets, you explained to Hannah Blythyn that a whole variety of people can be involved in the regional partnership who will be responsible for spending that pooled budget, but the pooled budgets—if I understand the regulations correctly—are drawn from the LHB and local authority, not from...
Suzy Davies: One benefit for my region, of course, is the Swansea bay city region deal, which will bring £1.3 billion into the economy, if it’s a success, and I think that’s a matter of interest for you as economy Secretary as well as for the local government Secretary, of course. Like last year, we’ve spent several months trying to convene a meeting between Assembly Members and the acting board,...
Suzy Davies: Thank you very much. Rhun ap Iorwerth.
Suzy Davies: If you want to make an intervention, please ask the speaker.
Suzy Davies: Can I ask you to bring your remarks to a close?
Suzy Davies: Thank you, we’ve heard from all parties now. I’d be very grateful if the next speakers could keep to time. Joyce Watson.
Suzy Davies: Due warning, Joyce, I think.
Suzy Davies: I rather hope that my invitation to keep to time will be observed from now on. Simon Thomas.
Suzy Davies: Well done, Simon. You won. Neil Hamilton.
Suzy Davies: I call on the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure—Ken Skates.
Suzy Davies: That’ll do.
Suzy Davies: Thank you. I call on David Rees to respond to the debate.
Suzy Davies: And so are you, Chairman, but we’re running out of time.
Suzy Davies: The proposal is to note the committee’s report. Does any Member object? The motion is therefore agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.
