Huw Irranca-Davies: First Minister, as you've said so often, it is women in the workplace who have been disproportionately at the front end of exposure to the pandemic. They work in retail and care and health and other public-facing roles disproportionately, and in low-paid or casual roles where sometimes the unionised voice for the workforce can be regrettably weaker, yet the pressure can be greater to turn up...
Huw Irranca-Davies: Trefnydd, I wonder if we can find time for a debate before we break for the election in May on the remarkable history and enduring legacy of Robert Owen, son of Newtown and of Wales, and, indeed, of the world? Textile manufacturer, philanthropist, social reformer, and of course one of the founders of the co-operative movement and of utopian socialism too. And to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, what...
Huw Irranca-Davies: Minister, you probably enjoyed, as I did, watching Sir Gareth Edwards's video the other day of his visit to the vaccination centre in Bridgend behind the rugby club. He said in the video that it wasn't true that it was always the case that he enjoyed every visit to the Brewery Field in Bridgend. But it was a great message to all my constituents about the desirability of getting the...
Huw Irranca-Davies: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Minister, I really welcome the statement and I absolutely endorse the idea that we need to experiment with this and try it, but we also need then to roll it out at scale. I just came back at lunch time from a walk down my high street. Now, prior to coronavirus, we were starting to pick things up, and, in fact, we've got a lot of investment here in Maesteg, but I could...
Huw Irranca-Davies: 2. What assessment has the Minister made of whether the demand for domestic camping and caravan sites with COVID-safe facilities in Wales can be met in spring/summer 2021? OQ56302
Huw Irranca-Davies: Diolch yn fawr iawn, Gweinidog. Thank you so much for that answer. I think you will recognise that many people from working families in our communities will not be rushing off for extravagant holidays overseas this year—they will be looking for cheap and cheerful but good open-air opportunities in domestic tourism. And it's an opportunity, in fact, to make sure that our tourism providers in...
Huw Irranca-Davies: First Minister, two weeks ago we were pleased to host a Facebook live event in the Bridgend and Ogmore area, under the title of 'Mental Health—It's Good to Talk', and it was attended, I'm delighted to say, by the Minister with responsibility for mental health, but also by Megan from the Bridgend Youth Council, Mental Health Matters, local Men's Sheds and many other organisations and...
Huw Irranca-Davies: I can't possibly do justice in this debate to the many heartfelt messages in support of the Velindre proposals from all over my constituency, but I think one letter from Richard Case in Llanharan might help. Richard writes, 'As with the majority of people in south-east Wales, the Velindre Cancer Centre holds a very special place in my heart. I spent far too long in their buildings while...
Huw Irranca-Davies: 5. Will the First Minister make a statement on the use of unallocated funding included in last year’s annual budget? OQ56385
Huw Irranca-Davies: First Minister, I thank you for clarifying that, and I asked you this question because Welsh Government, despite allocating what you've just told us was 99.6 per cent of its resource, has continually come under fire from the Tories here in Wales, whilst at the same time their Chancellor in Westminster holds a COVID reserve that currently stands at £19 billion. So, First Minister, it is clear...
Huw Irranca-Davies: Trefnydd, I know that one of the Ministers who assiduously watches this is our tourism Minister. So, I wonder if, through you, I could ask for a statement or for some clarification on the latest move by Tripadvisor, which has worried many of the small to medium-sized tourism operators in my constituency. Tripadvisor already takes 15 per cent commission on any sales that come through its site....
Huw Irranca-Davies: I'm delighted to support this budget—a really difficult budget. With the lack of ability to forecast more than a year ahead, I think this has been very smart in many ways in some of the choices and the priorities made. It caused me to reflect, actually, on what we have been doing over the last five years, despite—as Dawn Bowden, my colleague, was just saying—the challenges of austerity,...
Huw Irranca-Davies: I will turn to this budget at the moment and how it impacts on my constituency. I look over the last five years in my patch, and there isn't a single town or community that hasn't had a new school built that is affecting its primary or secondary school children, or a college that has had investment. It's the biggest investment since the 1960s in the infrastructure of our schools and colleges,...
Huw Irranca-Davies: Minister, I wonder if you'd join me in paying tribute to the work that's been done through the pandemic with some brilliant local organisations like Bridgend County Care and Repair. Despite the constraints and restrictions of the pandemic, they carried on trying to do those adaptations throughout my area. But, also, would she agree with me that this is more than that, as well? It's about...
Huw Irranca-Davies: Diolch, Llywydd. This year marks the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the pioneer and social reformer Robert Owen. From humble beginnings in Newtown in Wales, he became a champion for the rights of the working classes, child labour laws, and he promoted a humane standard of living for all. To this day, the groundwork he laid helps us to construct a more equitable society,...
Huw Irranca-Davies: Diolch, Llywydd. And in opening this debate, can I give my thanks to all those in our NHS who carried out such sterling work and continue to do so? But I'm looking at a very difficult, historic case with a long history here today, and some of the details will be distressing to the family and to those who hear them for the first time.
Huw Irranca-Davies: This debate seeks to explore with the Minister crucial matters of the right of an individual to receive safe medical treatment and the right of that patient and the family to access medical information in a timely manner to pursue complaints and, where necessary, police and other investigations, and the extent to which the culture and the processes of the NHS in Wales have changed in recent...
Huw Irranca-Davies: At the request of the family, Kelly's care was subsequently transferred out of Wales to Bristol in November 2006, and the referral letter to the consultant in Bristol stated that Kelly had suffered a pituitary apoplexy. This information, by the way, incredibly, had never been relayed to the family. Now that's a short summary of some of the tragic series of medical and clinical events that...
Huw Irranca-Davies: But the questions for this debate are as follows: if there was no server failure, why is there no record of the actions of the doctor who attended the A3 link ward from the high dependency unit when Kelly became so ill and inevitably ultimately saved Kelly's life? No record. Why are there no drug charts available between 10 and 22 November? Where are the results of the blood tests, the ones...
Huw Irranca-Davies: 5. Will the First Minister make a statement on the effectiveness of NHS Wales's Test, Trace, Protect service? OQ56440
