Darren Millar: Diolch, Llywydd. Cabinet Secretary, people have just listened to your question, and they will be absolutely astonished at the complacency of your response. The Government in the UK, the UK Government, made some £550 million-worth of additional investment, which is coming to Wales as a result of their budget just last week. That means that there are extra resources available to the Welsh...
Darren Millar: Formally.
Darren Millar: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I thank the Cabinet Secretary for his positive response to this afternoon's debate and, indeed, all speakers for their often moving, very moving, contributions? I want to pay tribute to the Cabinet Secretary for the work that he's done in continuing the work of many of his predecessors, of course, including Carl Sargeant, who's anniversary of his...
Darren Millar: Two hundred thousand Irishmen fought in the hostilities of the first world war, 35,000 of them died, and that's why I'm wearing a shamrock poppy today, in order to mark their contribution to the war. Because the Cabinet Secretary and Mohammad Asghar are quite right: it was the whole of the Commonwealth that was engaged in these hostilities. British men and servicemen from around the...
Darren Millar: Will the First Minister provide an update on recycling services in Wales?
Darren Millar: Leader of the house, can I call for an oral statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services on the Welsh Government's recent decision to provide abortions in Wales for women who are normally resident in Northern Ireland? The decision, as you will be aware, was announced on Friday. Just this morning, I received an e-mail from over 60 women living in Northern Ireland asking...
Darren Millar: Can I thank the Minister for bringing forward this important debate and also put on record my thanks to the children's commissioner, Sally Holland, and her team for the excellent work that they do on behalf of children and young people here in Wales? I think it's a sad fact that, in 2018, many children and young people in our country don't enjoy the same safety and privileges that we in this...
Darren Millar: Will you take an intervention?
Darren Millar: It was just on the positive parenting point.
Darren Millar: Cabinet Secretary, one area that is very vulnerable to flooding is the Old Colwyn promenade in my own constituency, and you'll be aware that the sea defences there are particularly vulnerable. There was a report, which was commissioned by Conwy County Borough Council back in 2010, that estimated that the failure of those defences would happen five years after that report was written. We're...
Darren Millar: Will the First Minister make a statement on the future of business rates in Wales?
Darren Millar: First Minister, while your Government has been playing politics frankly since June 2016—[Interruption.]—by grandstanding and attacking the Prime Minister, the truth is that Theresa May has been working very hard to negotiate a deal with the European Union, which delivers for Wales and which respects the outcome of the referendum—and I remind everybody—in which Wales voted to leave the...
Darren Millar: Leader of the house, just a couple of weeks ago, I met with Adrian Farey, one of my constituents who runs a long-term sustainable woodland project in the Elwy valley region of my constituency. It was visited by the Minister for Environment just last week, and I was very pleased that she enjoyed her visit there to learn more about the organisation that he runs. But this is precisely the sort...
Darren Millar: Can I thank the Government for bringing forward this motion today to repeal the Law Derived from the European Union (Wales) Act? As the Government and all Members of this Chamber will be acutely aware, we opposed this Act when it was put before the National Assembly as an emergency Bill, using emergency procedures—a significant piece of legislation that we had just 14 days to scrutinise. We...
Darren Millar: I just want to speak very briefly in respect of the amendment that has been tabled by the Welsh Conservatives in respect of the Hendy windfarm. The Cabinet Secretary will be aware that she made a very similar decision to this earlier this year in respect of a windfarm application in my own constituency, in the Denbigh moors area, the Pant y Maen windfarm, which was subject to a planning...
Darren Millar: I think it is incumbent upon the Minister to try to consider whether those works that are proceeding have the relevant permissions. Clearly, if they haven't, then they should cease forthwith. And I think that we have a Cabinet Secretary who has listened on many occasions to arguments that have been made by the Welsh Conservatives and taken forward decisions on the basis of the discussions...
Darren Millar: 2. Will the Welsh Government make a statement on immunisation rates in north Wales? OAQ52943
Darren Millar: Thank you for that response. You'll be aware that older people and other vulnerable groups are also encouraged to undertake the offer of a flu vaccine each winter. There's been considerable concern in north Wales about a shortage of the vaccine across the region, including in my own constituency of Clwyd West. Do you accept that that shortage could potentially put the lives of vulnerable...
Darren Millar: Will you take an intervention?
Darren Millar: Can I thank the Cabinet Secretary for taking the intervention and thank you for the determination that you made in respect of Ysgol Llanbedr in my own constituency, a school that the local authority had planned to close, but I was very grateful for your determination to keep that particular school open? I think the one concern about the determination process, if I may, is the length of time...
