Julie Morgan: I think many parents think that the defence of reasonable punishment has already been abolished, but would the Minister agree that in preparation for the forthcoming legislation, it’s very important to communicate with parents and with families, and can he tell us how he’s going to do that?
Julie Morgan: I welcome the points made in the statement by the Cabinet Secretary, and I think they will certainly help the situation. During the recess, I visited North Cardiff Medical Centre, and was very impressed with the efforts that they were making there to try to treat the whole patient to try to avoid unnecessary medical treatment and try to avoid admission to hospital. I was also very impressed...
Julie Morgan: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Making Wales active and making the active travel Act a reality is one of the key tasks for the Welsh Government in this next term, and we’ve already covered today the statistics and the consequences and the health issues that we have to address here in Wales. It’s good to hear that all the existing routes maps have been completed by the local...
Julie Morgan: What discussions has the Minister had about reviewing the Barnett formula?
Julie Morgan: Thank you very much, acting Presiding Officer. I’d like to congratulate Vikki Howells on choosing such a vitally important subject for this debate. I just wanted to refer to a visit I made to Denmark some years ago, with a delegation, looking at education provision. I visited a preschool, such as she referred to in Sweden, I think, for two and three-year-olds. The two and three-year-olds...
Julie Morgan: Could we have a debate on setting up the constitutional convention that’s long been proposed by the First Minister? Now that we are going to possibly lose 11 MPs in Wales when the numbers go down from 40 to 29, and, with the vote to leave the EU, it’s likely we will lose four MEPs, isn’t now the ideal time to acknowledge that there are too few Assembly Members to do the job properly...
Julie Morgan: Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. I would also like to congratulate all our Welsh athletes and I’m looking forward to the event on Thursday when we welcome them to the Senedd. They did perform absolutely outstandingly in Rio. Would the Cabinet Secretary agree that it’s vital that there are good sporting facilities available for young people to train? I’m sure he’s aware...
Julie Morgan: In Whitchurch, we’ve got a company called Schools Into Europe, and I’ve been told by the director there that there has been a drop-off in the number of schools undertaking trips abroad, which he does think is partly due to the confusion over travel safety guidance, and schools adopting their own ad hoc rules as to whether it’s safe to travel or not. So, following up to her answer to the...
Julie Morgan: I’m very pleased to speak in this debate to support the Government’s programme. I think the opposition parties have protested a bit too much this afternoon and protested a bit too much about the size of the document, which I don’t really see is the key issue—rather it is the long-term plans and I’m very pleased to speak in support of those plans today. Obviously, we are in...
Julie Morgan: This is a headline document. Obviously, all that discussion and debate and detail will take place, and what I think we should be doing today is addressing the merits of what’s in that document. I was actually speaking to a constituent this morning who was saying that there was a very high-quality nursery in Cardiff North that she wanted her child to go to, but the child couldn’t go there...
Julie Morgan: Will you give way?
Julie Morgan: There were lots of complaints, then, that it was too long. [Laughter.]
Julie Morgan: 6. What plans does the Welsh Government have to reduce the prevalence of domestic abuse in Wales? OAQ(5)0186(FM)
Julie Morgan: I thank the First Minister for that reply. I’m sure the First Minister is aware of the reports from NSPCC Cymru last week that they have seen a big rise in the number of adults calling them worried about children suffering from or witnessing physical and emotional domestic abuse. The number of the calls to the NSPCC, I believe, has gone up 63 per cent over the last six years. What further...
Julie Morgan: What measures are being put in place to improve neonatal care in Wales?
Julie Morgan: What progress has been made on setting up a development bank for Wales?
Julie Morgan: 6. What is the Welsh Government doing to ensure that there is a workforce with the appropriate skills in Wales? OAQ(5)0206(FM)
Julie Morgan: Would the First Minister be able to tell us what progress has been made on preparations for the introduction of the apprenticeship levy, which was proposed by the former Chancellor, George Osborne? And what are the consequences of that for Wales?
Julie Morgan: Members of Haemophilia Wales have welcomed the period of specific Welsh consultation announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport last week in his written statement on payments to people affected by NHS-supplied contaminated blood, because this will give an opportunity for their own particular views to be fed into the system. So, would the leader of the house ensure...
Julie Morgan: I'm very pleased to take part in this debate, especially during this awareness week, and I thank the Cabinet Secretary for updating us on the progress that has been made and his acknowledgement that there is still a long way to go. Although progress has been made, hate crime is still a daily reality for many people in Wales, ruining people’s lives and people living in dread of being the...
