Suzy Davies: The dreaded Japanese knotweed extends beyond Swansea East and into other parts of South Wales West, including areas around railway lines and areas that have been identified in the draft local development plan for quite extensive development. I'm wondering if you could commit today to speak to your Cabinet colleagues across the relevant portfolios to try and establish what the cost would be,...
Suzy Davies: I particularly wanted to contribute to this debate, having been a volunteer with two community charities who provided or worked with community transport in rural areas. The experiences that I had completely reinforce what other Members have already said today about the purpose and outcomes of often co-productive community transport organisations. As we’ll know from examples from our own...
Suzy Davies: Will the First Minister make a statement on the role of co-responders?
Suzy Davies: I wonder if I could request a fairly urgent oral statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services please on the role of fire co-responders? Since the red categorisation has been narrowed as regards the number of conditions that are within it, if you like, the role of co-responders in attending amber calls has become far more critical in my view, particularly in attending...
Suzy Davies: Thank you. Darren Millar.
Suzy Davies: We're almost halfway through this debate and I've got a number of speakers who would like to contribute. I'd be very grateful if both questions and answers could be kept as succinct as possible. Michelle Brown.
Suzy Davies: There is one more speaker, but if you want to do that now.
Suzy Davies: And finally, Jenny Rathbone.
Suzy Davies: Thank you, Minister.
Suzy Davies: The next item is a statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: update on the next steps for the pupil development grant. I call on the Cabinet Secretary, Kirsty Williams.
Suzy Davies: Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. Darren Millar.
Suzy Davies: Will the Cabinet Secretary outline the process for calculating the amount of funding allocated to the health and social services portfolio to support emergency services?
Suzy Davies: One of the priorities in the Welsh Government's asylum seeker delivery plan was to find increasing opportunities for access to higher education for asylum seekers, and very specifically in that plan it mentioned that Welsh Government will enable monthly surgeries with Cardiff Metropolitan University to provide advice on possible routes to universities for refugees and asylum seekers. You...
Suzy Davies: Will you take an intervention?
Suzy Davies: Just on that very point, I wonder if you could share with the Assembly your views on subsection (8), which seems to resolve many of the problems that you've already raised in your answer to the debate.
Suzy Davies: Can I say thank you very much, Angela? For me, for the last 40 years, the word 'septicaemia', which is the same thing, was just the word on the bottom of my grandfather's death certificate. And when he died, completely unexpectedly, in hospital, he was my grandmother's carer and, as Julie has indicated, she ended up going into a home, having a stroke and the whole family was devastated within...
Suzy Davies: First Minister, at the recent cross-party group on diabetes we heard that just about 100 new diabetes nurses are being introduced in England. We don't have any here. Even though, of course, insulin pumps are given by the NHS to people with diabetes if they need them urgently, without the specialist nurses there's no guarantee that they're being used correctly. Bearing in mind that we get more...
Suzy Davies: I wonder if I could request, actually a written statement is probably better for this one, either from the local government Secretary, or indeed from yourself, to clarify the position about who is responsible for monitoring and resolving any problems with the gender pay gap within our local authorities. Back a few weeks ago, in a written reply to an oral question that we didn't get to,...
Suzy Davies: Thank you very much for your statement. I thought it was very interesting, actually. I just wanted to ask you two or three questions quite quickly. Back in November, you said that you wanted to work across Government and with local authorities and across the board. I just wanted to ask you a little bit about the consultation. At the moment, it looks like it's going to be the usual online...
Suzy Davies: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and thank you for that statement.
